Research Methodology Terminology

The primary purpose of research is to establish facts and new findings through a systematic investigation to contribute to an existing body of knowledge.

The 'Methodology' section in a research report explains how the research was conducted, including the research design, population and sampling procedure, research instrument, data gathering procedure, and data analysis procedure.

The 'Introduction' section in a research paper presents background information, scope, and focus of the research paper.

The 'Research Title' is a subject or topic that the researcher finds interesting when conducting research and needs to be narrowed down to focus on the main idea.

Cultural mapping is a research tool used to holistically understand the cultural assets of a place based on the local knowledge of the people.

The 'Results' section of a research report contains other related information such as graphs, charts, tables, and lists.

An interview is a conversational practice where knowledge is produced through the interaction between an interviewer and an interviewee(s). An interview guide summarizes the content that researchers cover during interviews, which can range from providing minimal directions for 'less structured' interviews to explore the participant's perspective to being more structured with specific questions.

Tips for formulating interview questions include posing open questions, sequencing questions from broad to narrow, and avoiding multi-part questions. Tips for writing a great survey questionnaire include focusing on closed-ended questions, keeping questions neutral, providing balanced answer choices, avoiding double-barreled questions, and letting most questions be optional.

An interview is a conversation between an interviewer and interviewee(s) to gather information, while a survey is a statistical analysis of answers to a poll of a sample of a population. In-text citations can be used to avoid plagiarism by acknowledging the original sources of ideas, information, and pictures used in research.

Answer choices can be kept balanced by providing a range of options that are not biased towards any particular response. For example, using a Likert scale with equal numbers of positive and negative options can help ensure balance.

The purpose of providing in-text citations in research is to acknowledge the original sources of ideas, information, and pictures used in the work, thereby avoiding plagiarism.

The reference section in research lists all sources used in the work, while the appendix contains related information such as graphs, charts, tables, and lists.