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1. Truth or Trash: Research Myths
Edition
• Witty but Smart Myths & Facts for Research 1

2. How to Play
• Read each statement.
• Decide: Is it TRUTH or is it TRASH ?
️ 🗑️
• Laugh. Relate. Rethink what you *thought* you knew
about research!

3. “Trial and error” is part of doing
research.
• ✅ TRUTH – No research is perfect on the first try!

4. If you submit your group paper but
didn’t help, you’re still a researcher.
• 🗑️TRASH – Congratulations, you’re a ghost writer.
Or worse, a freeloading potato.

5. Google Scholar is basically your
research bestie.
• 🧠 TRUTH – She’s loyal, free, and doesn’t ghost you
mid-search. Marry her. 💍

6. You can use TikTok as a data
source.
• 🧠 TRUTH – Yes, if you’re studying trends, behavior,
or Gen Z linguistics. Just don’t cite dance moves as
methodology.

7. If ChatGPT helps you draft, you
still need to do the thinking.
• 🧠 TRUTH – Tools don’t replace brains. They just
help you focus yours.

8. The research process will test your
patience, but also your character.
• 🧠 TRUTH – Tears are temporary. Citations are
forever. 😭📚

9. If you make your paper 20 pages
long, it looks more legit.
• 🗑️TRASH – Quality over quantity, bes. Even a short
paper can slap, if well-written.

10. ‘Significance of the Study’ is just
there for formality.
• 🗑️TRASH – Kung di mo alam kung para kanino ang
research mo, bakit mo pa ginagawa?

11. Your thesis adviser will write your
paper if you’re nice.
• 🗑️TRASH – Not even your nicest “Good morning
po, ma’am ” can save you.
👉👈

12. If you cite too much, baka mapagsabihan
kang ‘walang originality.’
• 🗑️TRASH – Citing is flexing. It shows you did your
homework — not stole someone else’s.

13. Research is like cooking — follow
the recipe and don’t improvise.
• 🗑️TRASH – Research involves curiosity, creativity,
and analysis. Hindi ka lang taga-sunod ng steps.

14. Your research topic must sound
complicated para seryoso tingnan.
• 🗑️TRASH – If it sounds like a tongue twister, you're
just confusing people, not impressing them.

15. Congrats, Mythbuster!
• 🎉 Now that you know what’s *truth* and what’s
*trash*, do your research like a legend. 🏅

17. THE NATURE AND
RELEVANCE OF RESEARCH
• The word research is derived from the prefix
RE, which means to repeat or redo, and the
root word SEARCH, which means to find
or look for.
• means to repeatedly looking for something,
which had been in existence before

18.  Research is concerned with finding answers (Mason & Bramble,
1989). It is a systematic, organized search for knowledge or answers
to questions.
It is a systematic process of collecting ang logically analyzing
information or data for some purpose (Macmillan & Schumacher,
1989).
It is a process of obtaining knowledge through techniques, where
truth, accuracy, validity, reliability, and other criteria can be
ascertained (Genato et al, 1993).
It is a critical and exhaustive investigation or experimentation,
having for its aim the discovery of new facts and their correct
interpretation, the revision of accepted conclusions, theories, or
laws in the light of newly discovered facts or the practical
application of such conclusions, theories or laws (Leedy, 1993).
It is a systematic inquiry geared towards providing information to
solve problems (Emory, 1995).

19. Characteristics of
Research
Systematic - It is systematic as there are interrelated steps or
procedures a researcher has to observe in solving a problem: It
originates with a problem, followed by the gathering of data in logical
and orderly manner guided by a reasonable guess or hypothesis and
ends with a conclusion based on observable facts or data.
Objective - It is not based on guesswork. This is because empirical
data have to be gathered by the researcher prior to making
conclusion or proposing new solution to an identified difficulty or
problems.
Comprehensive - If a researcher is serious about understanding a
phenomenon, he needs to examine and analyze all aspects or angles
before making a generalization or conclusion.

20. Characteristics of
Research
Critical - This means that procedures employed by the researcher
must be able to withstand critical scrutiny by other researchers.
Valid - Whenever a researcher formulates conclusions, these have
to be based on actual findings.
Verifiable - Research is said to be verifiable as other researchers
can check on the correctness of the results by replicating the
study, based on methods and procedures employed by the
researcher.
Empirical - Research is empirical as generalizations drawn by a
researcher are rooted upon hard evidence gathered from
information collected from real-life experiences or observations.

21. Step 1: Idea-Generating Phase. Research begins with an idea
in which the researcher has interest. It is in this phase wherein
the researcher has to identify topics that interests him the most.
It is in this step where he has to justify why a study on a
particular topic is needed. Once a topic of interest is already
identified, the researcher has to start reading articles and books,
talk with people who are knowledgeable in the area and begin
thinking about it.
The Research Process

22. Step 2: Problem-Definition Phase. As the ideas generated in
the first phase are very general or vague, the researcher has to
refine them. This is the problem definition phase. This step
involves the following activities: identification and definition of
the variables to be studied; development of the theoretical and
conceptual frameworks of the study; the formulation of the
major and specific problems to be investigated; and the
formulation of hypothesis.
The Research Process

23. • Step 3: Procedures-Design Phase. After identifying the
problems and hypothesis, the researcher has to decide on the
methods and procedures he will use in the collection and
analysis of data. This is the procedures-design phase. The
activities a researcher has to undertake in this phase include
the following: selection of research participants; decision on
what research methodology to employ; development and
validation of data-gathering tools; specification of the
procedures to be observed in the actual collection of data;
and planning and analysis of the data gathered
The Research Process

24. • Step 4: Data-Collection Phase. After preparing the research
plan, the researcher has to proceed collecting the data from
the subjects of the study. It is in this phase where the
procedures, designed in the previous step, are implemented
by the researcher rigorously.
The Research Process

25. • Step 5: Data-Analysis Phase. In this particular phase, the
researcher analyzes the collected data from the previous step
based on his data-analysis plan. Appropriate qualitative and
quantitative techniques and procedures are then applied to the
data that have been recorded, coded, and tabulated.
The Research Process

26. • Step 6: Interpretation Phase. Having analyzed the data, the
researcher continues to make sense out of the data by
interpreting the results in terms of how they aid in
responding to the research problem posed at the beginning of
the study and how this answer contributes to knowledge in
the field. After generating answers to the problem, the
researcher has to compare the results predicted based on the
theoretical framework of the study.
The Research Process

27. • Step 7: Communication Phase. After completing the data
analysis and interpretation phases, the researcher has to
prepare a written or oral report of the study conducted, either
for publication or presentation to colleagues or a panel of
experts. This report has to include a description of all the
above steps in the research process.
The Research Process

28. • RESEARCH PRACTICUM
A. List down five topics you are interested to study.
Rank them from 1 to 5 as the most interesting to
you
B. Why is the topic you ranked as number one the
most interesting to you?
C. What benefit/s can you derive from studying the
topic which for you is the most interesting?