This was used as a material to teach some tips to enahnce Undergraduate Research Quality!

1. Tips
For a Better Undergraduate
Research
Lecture Series by:
Tharindu Weerasinghe
For the 3rd Year Undergrads of APIIT – Sri Lanka
March 2022 – June 2022
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2. • What’s are common questions ?
• Literature Review Report
• What are some other questions ?
• Your Research Problem
• After your Research Problem, then what?
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3. • Have I selected a main domain to continue the research?
• Have I narrowed-down the main topic into more focused one?
• Have I managed to find out some good references ?
• ACM publications
• IEEE publications
• Do I have a free time to go through the above publications?
• Do I prepare a Literature Review Report?
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Publication
Title
Publication
Year
Relevance to
my Research
Problem
(High/Mediu
m/Low)
Research
Method
Used
What to be
referred
(Which
section to be
referred)

5. • How do I finalise the research problem?
• What can e my Research Method which can solve the above
problem?
• Do I need a “Survey” to strengthen my Research Method?
• How will I collect Data for the survey that I conduct?
• What mode of validations to be used to prove my hypothesis ?
• Do I have the expertise to deal with the research methods?
• Do I need to learn more to achieve the results?
• What if the results show otherwise? (not to worry, you still can
defend by scientifically proving the hypothesis was wrong, so any
other researchers won’t follow that hypothesis thereafter, it’s also a
finding – this is somewhat I was taught by my supervisors when I did
my first MSc back in PERA)
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6. • The pivotal point of your research which elaborates your
solution !
• Can be a requirement gap, technical gap, functional gap
whatever a missing aspect that you can address to make this
world a better place !
• Should be addressed/achieved through scientific methods !
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7. Think and refine your research method(s).
Do I need to collect data; If so, what type, how can I collect, is it a
survey/computational calculations.
What type of a validation testing to be used to prove my work?
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8. • Conduct the research purposefully.
• Carefully observe the outcomes of the proof of your [research problem’s]
solution.
• Talk to your supervisors regularly and get their expertise on your progress!
• Write the thesis or paper thinking that you’re going to present this in a
reputed journal or conference!
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9. • Dr.Maryam Shahpasand, Staffordshire University – as I referred his lecture material before I
prepared this one!
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