Introduction to

research
 Watch the following video to find an answer for those three
questions:

Scholarly and non-scholarly articles:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LdQeaDN9Qic

• What is the main difference between scholarly and

non-scholarly sources?
• Can Wikipedia be used in an academic research? Why?
• Where can you locate scholarly (and also primary)
research?
 Using the library and the
internet
• Online resources:
https://scholar.google.com/
https://eric.ed.gov/
www.researchgate.net
• The university library: (available on campus)
search.ebscohost.com
• The Egyptian knowledge bank (with your email)
https://www.youtube.com/
watch?v=XnR20-MPvsI

Watch the video to understand the difference

between primary and secondary sources
 Types of scholarly research
Primary research:
• It is new research, carried out to
answer specific issues or
questions. It is also an original
source, one that gives firsthand
information on a topic.
•It can involve observations,
interviews, surveys,
experiments, and analyses of
original documents and
artifacts..  • This is also known as
Secondary research 
•It makes use of information
previously researched for other
purposes and publicly available. It
presents secondhand information on
your topic
•This information has been compiled,
summarized, analyzed, synthesized,
interpreted, or evaluated by someone
studying primary sources.
'deskresearch'.
 Examine the Two
provided Samples
1- which is primary and which is secondary research?
2- What are the main components of a research?
 Advantages vs. disadvantages of
primary research
Downside of Primary Research
Upside of Primary Research
• It can take a lot of time and
• It produces information many resources to
precisely tailored to your complete.
research needs.
• It can require special skills,
• It gives you direct, hands- such as designing surveys
on access to your topic. and analyzing statistics and
original documents.
Research ethics
Participants’ Consent
Honesty
Anonymity
Go back to the primary
research article sample
Try to provide a summary to each of the
components
 Sources

• Educational Research: Planning, Conducting and

Evaluating Quantitative and Qualitative Research
by John W. Creswell (4th edition)
• The College Writer: A guide to Thinking, Writing,
and Researching by Randall VanderMey, Verne
Meyer, John Van Rys, and Pat Sebranek (4th
edition)
 For next class:

Assignments:
Locate 3 primary research articles and identify their
components.

Pick one of them, and write a few sentences

summarizing each section of the article.