Rationale of the Study

Practical Research 1 Quarter 3

Objective

At the end of the module, you are expected to:

• provide the justifications / reasons for conducting
research
 I. Read and analyze the following questions. Determine
whether they serve as good considerations in providing
justifications for conducting a particular study. Write
YES if the question is valid for consideration and NO if
not. Write your answer in you answer sheet.
____ 1. Why is the proposed study important?

Warm Up ____ 2. What qualifications does the researcher possess?

____ 3. What was wrong or incomplete about prior efforts
conducted on the research problem?
____ 4. Can people relate to the research problem in local
or global context?
____ 5. What is the timeline of research activities to be
done by the researcher?
 ____ 6. How will the researcher select the
sample from the target population?
____ 7. Does it elaborate or fill in the gaps in
the present knowledge and existing literature?
____ 8. How will the researcher present and
cite the references to be used in the study?
Warm Up ____ 9. What real life or everyday problem,
issue, or question does the research intend to
address?
____ 10. What is the research ultimately
trying to achieve?
What is ‘Rationale of the
Study’?
It is one of the major components in the introductory
part of your research paper.
• According to Merriam-Webster, a rationale is:
1 : an explanation of controlling principles of
opinion, belief, practice, or phenomena
2 : an underlying reason : basis
What is ‘Rationale of the
Study’?
In the context of research writing, a rationale
pertains to the reasons why the study must be
conducted. Such justification is provided by the
researcher to highlight the significant points of
the problem to be addressed in the study.
What is ‘Rationale of the
Study’?
- Is there a need to conduct a study about
your chosen research topic?
- Does it pose a significant research problem?
- Does it matter to your academic discipline?
What is ‘Rationale of the Study’?

This step involves providing the reader with critical background or

contextual information that introduces the topic area, and
indicates why the research is important.

The researcher should be able to show the readers why the

research matters, and to make them interested to want to know
more about the said research.
Components of the ‘Rationale of the Study’

Critical Background /
Relevance to
Existing Literature Contextual
Local/Global Context
Information

Research
Research Gap Proof of Urgency
Goal/Objective
Components of the ‘Rationale of the Study’

1. Existing Literature 2. Relevance to

Local/Global Context
this component tells the
situational interconnectedness of
background on what researches
individuals or things in varying
have already been done about a
perspectives.
given subject.
Components of the ‘Rationale of the Study’

3. Critical
4. Research Gap
Background/Contextual
Information problems, issues or questions that
this includes the circumstances have not been addressed or are
forming a background of an event, yet to be understood
idea or subject, that enables the
readers to understand the nature
of the problem.
Components of the ‘Rationale of the Study’

5. Proof of Urgency 6. Research/Goal

Objective
there should be evidence on the the purpose why there is a need
urgent need to solve the existing for the proposed study to be
problem conducted
Guide Questions in Presenting
Justifications
1. Why is this research important?
2. What real life or everyday problem, issue, or question does the research relate to?
3. Can people relate to the problem in local or global context?
4. What benefits does the research promise?
5. Are the units of analysis and observation clearly identified?
Guide Questions in Presenting
Justifications
6. What does the researcher hope to find out?
7. What was wrong or incomplete about prior efforts already conducted?
8. Does the research extend understanding of the phenomena being investigated?
9. Does it elaborate or fill in the gaps in the present knowledge?
10. What is the research ultimately trying to achieve?
 Sample ‘Rationale of the Study’
President Rodrigo Roa Duterte’s Political Speeches: A Critical Discourse
Analysis (Remorosa, 2018)
A message from the president is given almost unparalleled importance in
contrast to other communications. Speeches and addresses of any sort should
therefore be read as statements of presidential power and they are all Existing
attempts to assert the power of the presidency in some way either through literature
policy proposal, attempts to move public opinion through
appeals to the people, or direct address to specific audiences (Chimbarange,
Takavarasha,& Kombe, 2014).

The present study is concerned with investigating an aspect of discourse

Relevance to
that has not received adequate attention within the Philippine local and global
political discourse. The absence of a research study in the national and local context
setting has prompted more the researcher to conduct this investigation.
 It has been found out that due to the pressure of media and
its effort to catch the attention of their consumers the traditional Critical
view of political speeches has been changing and is now nearer to background /
the everyday contextual
informal speech. Political speeches should therefore be not only information
interesting but also entertaining so as to be enticing to media
holders who have the privilege of what would be presented and
how (Brno, 2011).

The researcher has noticed that analyses of oral

texts, particularly in political speeches as a discourse,
Research gap
have been rarely studied by CDA researchers. Thus,
Wang (2010) calls for more attention to CDA studies
since they can help explore the relationship between
language, ideology, and power.
There is an urgent need to pursue this Proof of
research Urgency

because the Philippines is now facing a great

change
Research
in administrative reform, thus it is in the goal/objective
realm to
listen to the core messages of the current
president
and understand his plans as well as visions
to uplift
the life of every constituent, and the country
as a
whole. Through Critical Discourse Analysis,
Activity
I. Group Work. Start drafting your rationale by supplying the necessary information in the following given template.
Submit your output using a separate answer sheet.

Research Topic: _______________________________________________________

Research Title: ________________________________________________________

Why is your research important?

_________________________________________________________________________________________________
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What real life or everyday problem, issue, or question does your research hope to address?
_________________________________________________________________________________________________
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How does it relate to local or global context?
_________________________________________________________________________________________________
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What is your research eventually trying to achieve?
_________________________________________________________________________________________________
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II. Group Work. Compose your draft for a simple rationale of your proposed study by using the information you have
provided. Submit the draft on another answer sheet. Include in your output a copy of your minutes of your meeting
when you discussed the rationale of your study.

Rationale of the Study