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IME/RESEARCH: Lesson 1
ACTIVITY 1

A. What’s In: Taking into consideration your experiences from your previous research subjects, decide whether each sentence must
be a criterion in choosing a good research problem. On your notebook, write YES if the statement can be considered as a criterion
and NO if otherwise.

A research topic should…

EXAMPLE YES 1. Be original.

2. Be ambiguous.
3. Fill in a research gap.
4. Be costly and ambitious.
5. Be general and not specific.
6. Arouse intellectual curiosity.
7. Be within the researcher’s interest.
8. Make use of ineffective research instrument.
9. Be completed beyond the given period of time.
10. Be insignificant to the field of study or discipline.

B. What I Know: Identify the basic parts of a research paper described in each statement. Choose your answers from the word bank
below and write them on your notebook.

Introduction
1. Serves as the plan or the blueprint
Notes in Chapter 1
of the study.
Significance of the Study Conceptual Framework

Scope and Delimitation Definition of Terms Statement of the Problem Hypothesis

2. Includes definitions of words operationally used in the study.

3. Serves as an overview of the research topic under investigation.
4. Sets the parameters of the study which narrow down the scope of inquiry.
5. States the concrete terms that a researcher expects to happen in the study.
6. Cites the benefits certain groups of persons will get from the outcome of the study.
7. Clearly expresses the specific direction or focus of the research problem or inquiry.
8. Elaborates the origin of the research problem which led to the conduct of the study.
9. Covers the general statement of the problem as well as the specific research questions to
be answered in the study.
10. Gives the concepts to be covered in the study as well as its boundaries in terms of the
respondents/participants, sampling technique, locale and the research methods to be used.

C. SWOT ANALYSIS: Assess yourself by following the format below.

STENGTHS WEAKNESSES
What personal traits do you possess did you find useful in What personal traits can deter you from doing research?
doing research?

ASSESS
YOURSE THREATS
OPPORTUNITIES LF What external factors do you consider as threats in doing
What opportunities do you see in research? research?