Research Methodology Department of English, MKBU.

1. Basic Steps for Research
Khushbu Lakhupota
MA Semester 4
Batch 2020-2022
Department of English, MKBU
4 March, 2022 Friday
Paper 209: Research Methodology
khushbu22jan93@gmail.com

2. What is Research?
1. Research is a systematic and critical investigation.
2. It aims at the discovery of new facts and their correct
information.
3. It is also the revision of accepted laws or theories in the light
of discovery of new facts.
4. It can be practical application of new or revised conclusions,
theories or laws.

3. What Research is NOT?
1. As a mere gathering of facts or information.
2. Moving facts from one situation to another.
3. As a esoteric activity, far removed from practical
life.
4. Producing wonderful new products.

4. Research Process
The Six important questions in writing a Proposal:
1. What?
2. Why?
3. Who?
4. Where?
5. When?
6. How?

5. What?
● What are you going to do?
● The subject of your research
● Broad area within the subject
● Specific area of investigation
● Text centered
● Author centered
● Idea based
● Area based

6. Why?
● You are interested in and passionate about an exciting but unexplored
area of study.
● You wish to enhance your employability opportunities.
● Bringing your credentials and findings of your research to visibility &
reputation as a researcher.
● Financial benefits in the form of promotions.
● Bringing external funding to your institution thereby improving ranking
of your university.
● Bringing change and transformation to your society and nation in the
form of new and innovative innovations.
● Academic compulsions.
● Professional advancements.
● Sharing and dissemination of knowledge.
● Passion for innovative practice.

7. Who?
● UG/Masters students for writing assignment, term papers,
projects, dissertation, presentations, etc.
● Research scholars for doctoral research, writing research
papers.
● Faculty members
● Independent scholars

8. Where?
● Colleges
● Universities
● Research Institutes
● Deemed Universities
● Private Organizations
● NGO

9. When?
● There is no time frame for pursuing research.
● Academic research is pursued at the
UG/PG/Doctoral Levels.

10. How?
● Research is an activity or skill based
proces
● One need to be equipped with skills to
perform the activity in a better way.
● Research methods are the tools and
techniques for doing research.

11. Research Terminology
● Research methods, which are concerned with how you carry
out your research.
● Methodologies are concerned with the perspective you
bring to bear on your work such as feminist or a postcolonist
one.
● The distinction between research skills, methods and
methodologies is useful for understanding different aspects
of the research process.

12. Research Methods
● Archival Methods
● Auto/biography as a Research Method
● Oral History as a Research Method
● Visual Methodologies
● Discourse Analysis
● The uses of Ethnographic Methods in English Studies
● Quantitative Methods for scholars of texts
● Textual Analysis as a research method
● Interviewing
● Creative writing as a research method
● English research methods and the Digital Humanities

13. Research Terms
● Abstract
● Annotated Bibliography
● Anthology
● Archives
● Bibliography
● Catalog
● Citation
● Database
● Literature Review
● Plagiarism
● Primary source
● Qualitative research
● Quantitative research
● Questionnaire
● Primary research
● Secondary research
● Research problem
● Hypothesis
● Thesis statement
● Summary
● Paraphrase
● Quotation

14. Works Cited
Barad, Prof. Dr. Dilip. "Introduction to Research Methodology | Amity School of
Languages | Amity University | Dilip Barad." YouTube, 26 Nov. 2021,
youtu.be/YdtCocZS_3w. Accessed 4 Mar. 2022.
MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers. 7th ed., Modern Language Assn
of Amer, 2009.
The Modern Language Association of America. MLA Handbook. 9th ed., PDF file,
Modern Language Assn. of America, 2021.
Walliman, Nicholas. Research Methods: The Basics. Routledge, 2010.

15. Thank You