Share cover for your research design. It is going to save some of your time. Inside the file, you can file sample of front cover, inside cover for supervisors' signature, and another one for you academic advisor and the chairman of English Department.
Remember to change the name and NIP. The best of luck for you!
Tuesday 1 January 2013
Research Design: Brief Heads-Up
Let's talk a bit about research design. It is a proposal of your research. Your aim in making this is to make sure that your supervisors and examiners know what you want to do and how you will do it.
A research design has several sections. The organizations of the sections are as follows:
A. Title
State your title briefly under this section.
B. Research Background
You give exaplanation about your topic. Here, you summarize why you are doing this research and you can also state the significance of it.
C. Research Question/Problem
Formulate your question based on what you want to find from the research. Commonly, you will have one to three questions at most. You are more likely to have too big of a research when you have more than three questions. It is best if you consult your supervisor to trim you research scope.
D. Research Purpose
In this section, you point out the purpose of your research. It is actually a repetition of your research question but in this section you are writing the questions in form of statement.
E. Significance
In significance section, you write why your research is worth doing. You also need to convince the examiners who will benefit from your research and what will your research contribute to them.
F. Terminology
This section is a glossary of the keywords in your research. For example, your research is about mind mapping technique. You have to give a brief exaplanation on that in this section.
G. Frame of Theory
You have to do your reading to write this section because you need theories to shape you research and to give clear orientation for your study. Reading theories will give you broader view of the topic. It is also helpful for you in constructing research instruments.
H. Frame of Concept
You write how you will do the research in this section. Describe each step of your research from collecting data to analysis. Be as detail as possible. Make sure people can imagine what you will do after reading this section.
I. Methodology
In here, you explain who will be your participant, what tools you are going to use, what research method suitable for your research.
J. Analysis
In this section, you explain how you will analyze the
data you have collected.
You probably are going to see various formats of research design which is different from this one. Don't worry. Just follow your supervisor's advise. It happens because some research methods required extra section while some others omit certain section. Use those formats as a starter.
Just to be safe, check our Ruang Baca FKIP because they store some samples of Research Design. Don't stick on one sample. Try to collect as many Research Designs as possible. Focus on designs with similar method with your research.
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