Characteristics of a

Good ResearchPaper

THESIS
ORGANIZATION

What Research Is
Research is:

the systematic process of

collecting and analyzing information
(data) in order to increase our
understanding of the phenomenon
about which we are concerned or
interested.

Characteristics
ofaGood
ResearchPaper

Research is systematic
It follows an orderly and
sequential procedure
that leads to the
discovery of truth
,solution of problem or
whatever is aimed to be
discovered.

RESEARCH IS EMPIRICAL

IT SHOULD BE
BASED ON
TRUTH.

RESEARCH IS ANALYTICAL

There is a critical analysis

of all the data used so
that there is no error in
their interpretation.

RESEARCH IS OBJECTIVE,UNBIASED
AND LOGICAL

All the findings and

conclusions are logically
based on empirical data
and no effort is made to
alter the results of the
research .

RESEARCH EMPLOYS
HYPOTHESIS
The data will either support the hypotheses
or they wont.
This may lead the researcher to cycle back to
an earlier step in the process and begin again
with a new hypothesis.
This is one of the self-correcting mechanisms
associated with the scientific method.

RESEARCH EMPLOYS QUANTITATIVE

OR STATISTICAL METHODS.

Data

are transformed
into numerical measures
andaretreated
statistically to determine
their significance or
usefulness.

RESEARCH IS ORIGINAL
WORK

DATA ARE GATHERED

FROM PRIMARY
SOURCES OF FIRST
HAND SOURCES AND
NOT FROM SECONDARY
SOURCES

RESEARCHIS DONE BY AN
EXPERT

The researcher uses valid

and carefully design
procedures valid data
gathering. He subject his
data to expert scrutiny.

RESEARCH IS ACCURATE INVESTIGATION ,

OBSERVATION AND DESCRIPTION.

In fact ,every research

activity must be done
accurately so that the
findings will lead to the
formulation of scientific
formulations.

RESAERCH IS PATIENT AND

UNHURRIED ACTIVITY

This is to ensure
accuracy. Hurried
research will lead to
shaky conclusions
and generalization.

RESEARCH REQUIRES
EFFORT

NO RESEARCH CAN BE
CONDUCTED
WITHOUT THE
EXERTION OF MUCH
EFFORT.

RESAERCH REQUIRES
COURAGE
RESEARCH REQUIRES
COURAGE BECAUSE THE
RESEARCHER OFTEN TIMES
UNDERGO HAZARDS ,
DISCOMFORTS AND THELIKE.
AT TIMES THE RESEARCHER
ENCOUNTERS PUBLIC AND
SOCIAL APPROVAL.