Tag: research proposal
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What is secondary data and where is located?
Secondary data is usually defined in opposition to primary data. The latter is directly obtained from first-hand sources by mean of questionnaire, observation, focus group or in-depth interviews, while the former refers to data collected by someone other than the user. In other words, data that has already been collected for some other purpose. Yet, such data may…
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The use of the first/third person. Qualitative evaluation of research proposal. part 3
After having examined qualitatively the major research proposals weakness in terms of connection with theory and writing style, this post aims to highlight the importance of the person used in academic writing: Bear in mind that the writing style and the person to be used may vary from one context to another and from one…
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Writing style. Qualitative evaluation of research proposals. Part 2
Following the index provided in the previous post for a qualitative evaluation of the research proposals performed by the students of the subject Research methods from Faculty of Management and Economics – Gdansk University of Technology (Poland); the current post will focus the point related to writing style. Four requirements of a good writing emerge from…
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What are the most common weaknesses in formulating a research proposal?
Assuming as a good research proposal the points suggested in the previous post What is a good research? (excepts those on “are you fascinated with it” and “does it match your career goals” since it depends on you) and after having examined around 17 proposals, here you can see the results obtained from a quantitative…