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The document discusses the importance of qualitative research across different fields and provides examples of how it can be used. It also outlines key elements to consider when choosing a research topic such as ensuring it is interesting, relevant and that sufficient information is available.

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PR1 - Lecture Notes - Lesson 5 and 6

The document discusses the importance of qualitative research across different fields and provides examples of how it can be used. It also outlines key elements to consider when choosing a research topic such as ensuring it is interesting, relevant and that sufficient information is available.

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LESSON 5: THE IMPORTANCE OF QUALITATIVE RESEARCH

ACROSS FIELDS OF INQUIRY


Qualitative research is oriented toward analyzing concrete cases in temporal and local
particularity. It starts from the respondents’ perspectives, expressions, and activities in their local context.
In this case, qualitative research is important across many fields of inquiry because it is designed for social
sciences, psychology, and other fields. With this, qualitative research would verify or validate the
tendencies, transform it into research programs, and maintain the necessary changes toward its objectives
and tasks. For example, qualitative research can be employed in health care research. One may study
people’s experiences of and access to health care. Various perspectives of patients and professionals can
be understood using qualitative research. An individual’s experiences, attitudes, and circumstances in life
that affect his/her health needs and behavior can likewise be studied.

It is important because it:


• Provides insight into the complexity of common occurrences
• Provides specific concrete details to guide understanding in a particular setting
• Provides insight into the “local” meanings that activities and practices have for participants
• Develops a comparative understanding of phenomena as experienced by different participants
in different settings.

LESSON 6: THE SUBJECT MATTER OF THE RESEARCH

WHAT IS A RESEARCH TITLE?


1. The most important element that defines the research problem.
2. It is usually read first and the most read part of the research.
3. It contains the least words enough to describe the contents and the purpose of your research
paper.
4. It can be revised any and many times as the research develops and reach its final phase. It
becomes final on its final defense before the panel of judges.

ELEMENTS OF A RESEARCH TITLE


The research title does not need to be entertaining but informative. A part of a research title has the
following information:

1. The subject matter or topic to be investigated. (“What?”)


2. The place or locale where the research is to be conducted. (“Where?”)
3. The population like the respondents’ interviewees. (“Who”?)
4. The time period of the study during which the data are to be collected. (“When”?)

Examples:
Subject matter: The teaching of English Subject matter: The effects of the use of cell
Place or locale: in the high schools of Province A phones on the academic performance
Time period: during the school year 1989-1990 Population: to senior high school students
Population: as perceived by teachers and Place or locale: at Department of Education
students Time period: during the first semester, school
year 2018-2019

RULES IN CHOOSING A RESEARCH TOPIC


1. Interest in the subject matter. Interest in a subject drives you to research, investigate, or
inquire about it with full motivation, enthusiasm, and energy.
2. Availability of information. Information will serve as evidence to support your claims about
your subject matter from varied forms of literature like books, journals, and newspapers, among
others, is a part and parcel of any research work.

What to include in the investigation of the available materials?

a. Update and authority of the materials.


b. Copyright dates of the materials? Are they new or old?
c. Expert or qualification of the writers of reading materials about your topic

3. Timeliness and relevance of the topic. How relevant is the topic?


a. It yields results that are useful in society
b. Related to the present. (Except for pure or historical research)

4. Limitations on the subject. Connect your choice with course requirements. You need to decide
on one topic to finish your course.
5. Personal resources. Do an assessment on your research abilities in terms of your financial
standing, health condition, mental capacity, needed facilities, and time schedule to enable you
to complete your research. You have to raise an amount of money needed to spend on
questionnaire printing and interview trips.

RESEARCH TOPICS TO BE AVOIDED


1. Controversial topics. It depends more on the writer’s opinion leading to biases. Facts cannot
support this topic.
2. Highly technical subjects. Not advisable for beginners as these topics require an advanced
study, technical knowledge, and skills.
3. Hard-to-investigate subjects. Happens if there are no available reading materials about it and if
such materials are not up-to-date.
4. Too broad subjects. It prevents you from to focus on the subject matter of the paper. Narrow
down or limit the subject to eliminate the problem.
5. Too narrow subjects. Subjects that are so limited where an extensive searching is necessary.
6. Vague subjects. Titles beginning with indefinite adjectives such as several, many, some, etc., as
in “Some Remarkable Traits of a Filipino” or “Several People’s Comments on the RH Law,” are
vague enough to decrease the readers’ interests and curiosity.

SOURCES OF RESEARCH TOPICS


1. Mass media communication – press (newspapers, ads, TV, radio, films, etc.)
2. Books, Internet, peer-reviewed journals, government publications
3. Professional periodicals like College English Language Teaching Forum, English Forum, the
Economist, Academia, Business Circle, Law Review, etc.
4. General periodicals such as Readers’ Digest, Women’s Magazine, Panorama, Magazine, Time
Magazine, World Mission Magazine, etc.
5. Previous reading assignments in your other subjects
6. Work experience – clues to a researchable topic from full-time or part-time jobs, OJT (on-the-
job training) experience, fieldwork, etc.

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