Research Methods (A Step-By-Step Guide)
Join our comprehensive course on Research Methods, designed to provide step-by-step guidance for students in developing research skills, critical analysis, and academic argumentation. Perfect for those writing dissertations or studying Research Methods, this course covers topics such as literature review, research questions, data collection, and more. Benefit from real-life examples and avoid common research mistakes. Start your journey towards achieving a good grade in your research activities today!
What you’ll learn
- Develop a research topic that is feasible
- Review literature and establish a gap in knowledge
- Formulate main research question, sub-research questions and hypotheses
- Design the research
- Apply critical analysis, synthesis and argument
- Recognize the dangers inherent in plagiarism and how to avoid them
- Understand research philosophies, strategies and approaches and the applications
- Construct a conceptual framework for the research
- Compare data collection techniques and select the appropriate technique(s) for a given research
- Turn data to variables applicable to statistical tests
- Design a questionnaire that yields result.
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Welcome to the course “Research Methods (A Step-By-Step Guide).”
As the name goes, the course has been designed to provide the maximum assistance you need step-by-step in your research activities.
Having taught in the UK and abroad, I have designed the course to meet the requirements of universities and colleges, and in some cases superseding the requirements. Every undergraduate and postgraduate student will find the course useful for the development of research knowledge, research skills, critical analysis and how to present an argument in an academic way.
The course has been designed to make research activities easier and visible to students. It consists of 30 lectures. Total duration of the course is 3 hours 31 minutes. The average lecture is 7 minutes long, a bitesize for easy assimilation. It covers research activities starting from the desire to do research to the point of data collection. These activities will help the student to lay the foundations for research and other studies in the Universities and Colleges.
In a nutshell students will be introduced to quantitative research, researcher attributes and the tutor in Lectures 1 – 4. Lectures 5-8 teach how to generate research ideas and refine them to become research topics. How to do a critical literature review is taught in Lectures 9-13. In lectures 14-17 students learn how to formulate research questions, hypotheses, aims and objectives for a give research topic. Research philosophy, approach and plagiarism are taught in Lectures 18-20. The student is taught how to apply the information and knowledge he/she has gathered from the previous activities in her work. Lectures 27-30 will prepare the student for data collection.
Lecture mode of teaching is used with an emphasis on a step-by-step guide. Questions and answers are used to stimulate the brain. Teaching material includes excerpts from the work of past students as examples. We highlight the areas where students make the most mistakes in research projects like dissertation/theses and similar assignments, and provide step-by-step guidance on how to avoid the mistakes
The following categories of students have benefitted from the course:
• Students who write dissertations/theses
• Students who study Research Methods as a unit
• Students with little or no research experience
• Students who can follow instructions
If you belong to any of the categories, the course is for you.
Who this course is for:
- Students who are not sure of their of their research skills and are looking for a step-by-step guide that will help them achieve a good grade in dissertation and research methods.
- Students who offer research methods in their degree course.
- Students who want to learn from the mistakes of previous students whose work is discussed in the class.
