This document provides guidance on creating a good research report to avoid rejection. It outlines several qualities of a good research article, including having a professional abstract, strong introductory and conclusion sections, original contributions, and quality writing. The introductory part should establish the problem, research gap, and motivation. The literature review should focus on scholarly sources, paraphrase properly, and show different perspectives. The research methods section should justify the model used based on the variables. The conclusion should summarize key findings and implications. Reviewers will assess whether the introduction establishes the issue, there are typos, the research is well-formatted, recent sources are cited, and the conclusion is based on observations. Avoiding these issues can help prevent

1. IDEA Nepal
Skill Development Training
Creating a Good Research
Report
- Jeeban Amgain, PhD
CEO
Academy of Innovation for Economic
Development Nepal (IDEA Nepal)
October 15, 2020

3. Presentation Outlook
• What are the qualities of a good article?
• How to maintain the quality of introductory
part, literature review, research methods and
conclusion sections?
• What your reviewer seeks in your research
report ? How to avoid desk rejection?

5. Qualities of a Good Article
• Assume that you have prepared a research paper.
When you submit in good international journal,
you may receive an email from journal editor
stating that:
• Your article falls short of standard.
• Your research is not publishable.
Especially if you are an early researcher or do not
have any experience of international publication,
such things happen obviously.

6. Qualities of a Good Article?
Why this happens?
What are the factors that makes your paper
poor ?

7. Qualities of a Good Article
Possible Reasons:
• Unprofessional abstract
• Weak introductory part
• Broken flow of writing
• Presence of too many typos
• Rough tables and charts
• Conclusion not based with observation
• No originality or no contribution to the literature
• Difficulty in Research methods
• Poor English writing

8. How to maintain the quality of introductory
part?
Please consider the following points.
• Start with problem or significance
• Mention the existing situation
• Specify the research gap
• Explain the motivation: why do you conduct
this research and what do you find out?
• Explain your contribution so that your
research is suitable to publish

9. How to maintain the quality of
literature review part?
Please consider the following points.
• Focus on scholarly (peer-reviewed)
articles.(At least 20% SSCI indexed articles)
• Do not site a lot of papers( which have no proper sources.
But select major and few good and latest quality papers.
• Paraphrase in proper way to avoid plagiarism.
• Mention theoretical, empirical, international and national
perspectives in separate paragraphs.
• Show a clear research gap.

10. How to select research method?
• This is one of the difficult tasks in research. The
method of model selection depends on what is
your purpose of research.
• Many models are simply based on regression
model (cause and effect relation). So do not be
panic in choosing model. You can choose any one
among many.
• The variable you choose during analysis
determines the suitable model.
• If you are writing project report, there is no need
to use models.

11. Data Presentation and Description
• Present only that data which can justify the
answer of research question.
• Be a lawyer to justify your research solution
• Describe the logically from different angle

12. Give special attention in writing conclusion
• This is very important section. A professional
writer includes the following facts.
• In first paragraph:
The summary of what you wanted to find out,
what method used and what you found.
• In second paragraph:
• Your major observation and findings.
• In third paragraph:
A policy implication of your research.

13. What your reviewer seeks in your research
report ? How to avoid desk rejection?
• Is introduction part written smoothly to raise the
research issue?
• Is your research paper free of typos?
• Is your research is in well format? (Heading
sequence, table, graph etc.)
• Has the paper cited latest and renown research
papers?
• Is your conclusion based on the observation?
• Does your paper have originality or contribution?

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