It is. Guidelines for making your research more friendly and better.

1. QUESTIONS FOR RESEARCH SECTIONS
In this appendix, I outline the questions that you can ask whenever
writing the different sections of your research paper. As an exercise,
you can try to answer these questions one after the other, and then write
your paper in prose form. Alternatively, you can use this as a means of
checking if you were able to address the basic parts that need to be there
in that specific section.
Introduction
1. What the hook or the idea that will show the importance of the study?
2. What is the gap in the knowledge about the topic?
3. What is the thesis statement?
4. If you are not using the hook-gap-thesis method, what are you using?
5. How clear and organized is the thesis statement?
6. How is the whole paper organized and how is this relayed in the introduction?
Literature review
1. What are two to three broad topics or ideas included in the literature review?
2. What are the connections between these broad topics?
3. How do you introduce these broad topics at the start?
4. What are the selected studies for the subsections of your research?
5. What are your sources: journals, books, credible web pages, reports?
6. What key insights do you get from the sources that are relevant to your research? (Remember that a
literature review is not mere summary of a book or journal article.)
7. How do you plan to confirm, challenge, or add to the literature?
Data and Methods

2. QUALITATIVE:
1. What methods will you use to collect data: interviews, FGDs, observations, questionnaires?
2. Who are the people you will collect data from, how many, and why them?
3. What questions will you ask in your data collection tool? (It is best to have an appendix of your
interview questions or questionnaire)
4. What challenges will you encounter or have encountered while collecting data?
5. How will your data collection provide evidence for your thesis statement or argument?
6. How do you plan to transcribe, code, and analyze themes?
QUANTITATIVE
1. What is your main data collection source: open source data, personal surveys, attitudinal or
behavioral surveys, or a combination of them?
2. What is your sample, how many will you survey, how will you encourage people to answer?
3. What are the variables, and how are they related to your research argument? (e.g. If my research is
about high school students' political involvement, I can have a variable that approximates their attitudes
about political involvement, measured with a Likert scale.)
4. If necessary, what are the independent and dependent variables? Why do you use these?
5. How will data be presented? Will there be descriptive data: mean, percentage, standard deviation, or
graphs?
6. Will there be correlations table, and what are variables that are included in this table?
7. Will there be linear regressions or higher statistics involved?
RESULTS
QUALITATIVE
1. What are the broad themes or common patterns with people's answers?
2. What are the unforeseen or surprising ideas that were not anticipated?

3. 3. How are answers different per group? (e.g. Do higher income respondents have answers different
from lower incomne respondents?)
4. How are you using or how do you plan to use the set-up, quote, comment method?
5. Are you relying too much on the quotes without adding the context or other supporting ideas?
6. How will you summarize the main points?
QUANTITATIVE
1. When presenting numbers, how do you present the mean and percentage of your study (e.g. the
average grade, or the percentage of females)?
2. What do those means and percentages signity?
3. What visuals will you use to show your results? For categorical data (e.g. island group, educational
aspiration), you can use a pie chart or a bar graph. For continuous data (e.g. height, weight, stock
market results), you can use a histogram or time plot.
4. How will you describe your visuals? What do they mean?
5. How will you explain your cross-tabulations or correlations table?
6. What happens to your dependent Variable for every increase in your independent variable?
DISCUSSION
1. At the start, how do remind your readers about the hook, gap and research study?
2. How do you plan to interpret the results?
3. What are the three to five main points? Is there anything surprising?
4. How do the results give evidence to your main points?
5. What previous studies support your main points?
6. What previous studies challenge your main points? How will you respond to these arguments?
7. What are the limitations of your study? How can other researcher's study it more comprehensively?
CONCLUSION
1. What is the relationship or connection between or among the main points?

4. 2. How will you synthesize all these ideas in one concept?
3. Why is this research important?
4. What are its practical implications and consequences?