This document discusses the importance of research and provides definitions of key research terms. It explains that research involves systematically studying a problem to discover new facts or knowledge. Some reasons to conduct research include investigating issues, solving problems, exploring topics, and generating new understanding. The document also defines a research paper as combining information found through research with one's own ideas to prove a thesis statement. It distinguishes research papers from other types of writing like personal essays or creative works.

1. QUARTER 1:
PRINCIPLES OF
RESEARCH
KRIS ANN MAE YAP BONILLA
SUBIC NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL

2. QUESTION:
Why do we
need to
conduct
researches in
our everyday
life?

4. What are the obstacles
that people facing when
being asked to write an
essay?

5. WHAT IS RESEARCH?

6. Any honest attempt to study a
problem systematically or to
add to man’s knowledge of a
problem may be regarded as
research. (Theodorson and
Theodorson 1969 cited in
Reber 1995, p.663)

7. The aim, as far as I can see, is the
same in all sciences. Put simply,
the aim is to make known
something previously unknown
to human beings. It is to advance
human knowledge, to make it
more certain or better fitting
. . . the aim is, as I have said,
discovery. (Elias 1986, p.20)

8. research. 1.a. the systematic
investigation into and study of
materials, sources, etc, in order
to establish facts and reach new
conclusions. b. an endeavour to
discover new or collate old facts
etc by the scientific study of a
subject or by a course of critical
investigation. [Oxford Concise
Dictionary]

9. WHY UNDERTAKE
RESEARCH?

10. • To investigate some existing
situation or problem.
• To provide solutions to a
problem.
• To explore and analyse more
general issues.
• To construct or create a new
procedure or system.
• To explain a new phenomenon.
• To generate new knowledge.

11. WHAT IS A
RESEARCH
PAPER?

12. CRITICAL ESSAY
TERM PAPER
THESIS
DISSERTATION

13. A research paper is
taking and combining
information you find by
doing a research and
your own ideas to prove a
thesis statement.
Information + Ideas =
RESEARCH

14. REMEMBER:
Uses documentation
Acquaints you with
materials and methods
Analyzes, discusses,
debates ideas
Engages you in critical,
not creative, reading
and writing
A piece of expository
writing
Personal essay
Reflection paper
Mere reporting of facts/
opinions
Review of academic
literature
Library informant hunt

15. Analytical Papers
Short StoriesSonnet
The Biography of Pres. Aquino
The Things I did Last Summer
Road Widening in Subic
The effects of
drinking coffee in
adolescent period
Fern leaves as
insecticide

16. CHECKING OF UNDERSTANDING..