important. •What are the impacts of research to our lives? • In research writing, what is referred to as the “system” is composed of the chapters and their elements. •The is composed of chapters that are organized in a logical scientific manner. •The consist of the detailed contents of each chapter. The contents are further divided into elements that are organized following a systematic procedure. • A researcher should objectively look at the basis on which the work is founded. •He or she must never produce results out of nowhere; the results of the research should be validated. •These results must never be based from biases. • It is very important for the researcher to clarify indicators and boundaries within which the research is confined because these factors could affect objectivity. Plagiarism constitutes claiming another person’s idea or intellectual property as one’s own. Through proper attribution, the researcher states that the knowledge being shared through the study was taken from the study of other experts. Therefore, there must be sufficient indicators for each variable. These variables can be gathered from different published and unpublished materials. Activity: ROLE Model
•Go back to the definitions and
characteristics of research. Based on what you’ve learned, give the roles of a researcher. Some of the goals for research are as follows: 1. To produce evidence-based practice • Every discipline or institution must provide the best practice of operation based from research studies. •Examples: clinical/medical practices, educational approaches, processes and standard operating procedures. 2. To establish credibility in the profession • Research is essential for a profession in producing new procedures, programs and practices. •This continuous improvement leads to distinctiveness which can only be achieved when there are special practices and peculiarity of services in a given area or field. 3. To observe accountability for the profession • Every action conducted by a professional must have a rationale. There are principles that justify why a professional do a certain practice. • The professional must be accountable for each task he or she performs. All tasks must be carried out with the circumspect care and awareness that everything has to be done efficiently. 4. To promote cost-effectiveness through documentation • The findings of research must be shared with and utilized by the individuals, group, and community for which the study is intended. They are useless if these results are not made known publicly. • These results, however, must first satisfy the researcher’s goal before he or she can share them with other researchers and professionals who may find these findings beneficial. • Anybody who is in the same condition as the subject/s of the study may also utilize the findings, thus saving on the expenses for doing the same research again.
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