#research methodologies

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[tutorsindia152]

Avoiding the 5 common errors in student research: strategies for success applicable to diverse academic domains learn from the experts.

During my second year of college, I initiated a research endeavor concerning the influence of social media on the psychological well-being of adolescents. This experience remains vivid in my memory as I was navigating unfamiliar terrain in the realm of scholarly inquiry, resulting in broad and ambiguous research inquiries that elicited constructive feedback. Subsequently, I undertook a sequence of exhaustive investigations concentrating on the ramifications of passive social media engagement on adolescent solitude. Our encounter with a data loss crisis due to a laptop malfunction during data scrutiny underscored the criticality of data safeguarding practices. This incident prompted us to adopt a meticulous approach to data analysis and institute robust data management protocols. These encounters underscored the significance of formulating precise research inquiries and mastering data administration, compelling me to seek guidance from a writing assistance service to refine my academic researchchoce methodology.

An integral facet of higher education entails engaging in scholarly investigations, providing students with opportunities to probe intricate topics, propel disciplinary advancement, and refine analytical acumen. Nonetheless, myriad pitfalls loom on this academic journey. To ensure productive and credible research outcomes, we scrutinize five common missteps committed by student researchers across diverse domains and elucidate professional strategies to circumvent them. (Qualtrics)

Indistinct Research Questions:

The Mistake: Formulating specific, targeted research inquiries from the outset can avert a disjointed process and prevent hurried conclusions.

Success Strategies:

Develop precise questions: Initiate with broad exploration and then refine focus through literature reviews to pinpoint specific and succinct inquiries.

Seek early input: Engage mentors or academic writing services early on to deliberate concerns, aiding in narrowing down the scope to a manageable level.

Inadequate Literature Review:

The Mistake: Neglecting comprehensive literature reviews can lead to inadequate comprehension of the subject matter, overlook critical debates, and fail to identify research lacunae.

Success Strategies:

Leverage extensive databases: Utilize diverse sources available through platforms such as JSTOR or PubMed.

Implement systematic organization: Employ tools like Zotero or Mendeley to structure references systematically. Academic writing services can also assist in organizing comprehensive reviews.

Incorrect Approach:

The Problem: Research integrity may be compromised by selecting inappropriate methodologies. Convenience often outweighs suitability in students' methodological choices.

Success Strategies:

Familiarize with methodologies: Allocate time to explore various approaches to ascertain the most suitable one.

Seek expert advice: Consult with experienced professors or academic experts regarding methodology selection. Academic writing services can also provide guidance on selecting and applying methodologies.

Data Mishandling:

The Error: Inadequate practices in data collection, storage, and analysis result in inaccuracies or ethical dilemmas.

Success Strategies:

Adhere to ethical standards: Ensure adherence to principles such as informed consent and confidentiality.

Utilize reliable tools: Opt for dependable software for analysis. Academic writing services can aid in structuring and presenting data to mitigate mishandling risks.

Disregarding Validity and Reliability:

The Error: Unsubstantiated conclusions are drawn when findings are not verified and validated.

Success Strategies:

Validate instruments: Conduct preliminary assessments on questionnaires or surveys to confirm reliability before widespread use.

Cross-Verification: Employ triangulation as a method to ensure consistency. (Academic writing services can assist in assessing the robustness of analysis and presentation of findings.)

Peer review: Participate in feedback sessions when possible to identify and address weaknesses.

In conclusion:

Proactive planning, continuous education, and community engagement are vital for research success. Academic endeavors achieve greater quality when questions are honed, comprehensive reviews are conducted, appropriate methodologies are selected, data is managed conscientiously, and reliability is ensured. Academic writing services provide valuable guidance and critique to enhance impact, clarity, and structure throughout the research journey. With their support, scholars, professionals, and engineers can produce scholarly, influential, and respected work. Remember, effective research involves not only answering questions but also asking relevant ones and rigorously testing hypotheses. Applying these strategies will lead to success in your academic pursuits.

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[comrade-shrimp]

My project that i promised to post for anybody looking to someday write/create Indigenous Characters

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[autisticaradiamegido]

day 235

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[thatscarletflycatcher]

Advisor has called my thesis topic and attempt "difficult", and that I need to try and relax and enjoy the process, and that that will help me stop writing like I'm writing the publishable article that comes from synthetizing an honors thesis. He compared it with someone attempting to juggle 9 items with one hand before they have completely mastered two-hand, five-item juggling. In that sense he also said my writing might profit from my writing for myself all those simpler intermediate stages (for example, just writing summary-commentaries of the chapters I'm using from MacIntyre's work).

So, I might bore you all with posts about those.

[revvethasmythh]

I think something we're sleeping on in the Gale epilogue is that he says he wants to try writing books about our adventures, which directly puts him in competition with Volo, who is also writing about the same adventures

This would--inevitably--devolve into a writer/academic feud for the ages, spreading copious misinformation to the masses as both writers can accurately claim to be primary sources, with wildly different tellings between them. There will be synthesis commentary papers written about both of their works by historians for centuries, and even though Volo's is full of blatant lies it must be considered because he is....well, Volo. and, like, he was verifiably there and involved with everything. there is no world where that is not infuriating to an academic like Gale. Gale will be blowing a gasket for the rest of his life about being in competition with Volo's Tome of Lies. There will be sniping in the footnotes of all his papers at the bard for the rest of his life. Bitter bard vs academic warfare, that's what we're looking at here

[lacnunga]

we need to start downvoting any analysis youtube vids that use google ai results to back up their points. congrats, you made a whole video and undermined it in a second, because why should i trust anything you say when you've clearly demonstrated that you can't be arsed to even scroll down on the first page of search results to verify information about the very topic you've decided to make a video about.

[floralfractals]

im having class about sampling bias. tumblr pollmakers shivering in their shoes.

[dragonsanddandelions]

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[girderednerve]

one of the things that you will inevitably notice if you take one of those data literacy classes, or even one of those sad "how to read a qualitative research paper" classes like the one i took in library school, is that most research is pretty bad by textbook standards. most of it! perhaps that is not true in all disciplines, but if you are trying to read a serious paper with any kind of data component about information science, good luck buddy. education seems pretty bleak too, by volume. which is not to say that there is no worthwhile research being done or useful data being collected, but i think about it a lot, because it is, i might argue, my job to think about knowledge production & dissemination. we are talking research methodologies on the tier of "i posted a google form in an open facebook group" and "i asked my twenty-five student employees what they thought" and "i interviewed five of my colleagues and wrote notes in my notebook" being published in widely circulated, well-regarded journals. research design is both a) a discrete skillset and b) time-consuming, so it doesn't necessarily happen, and it is pretty complicated to figure out if the kinds of data you can easily collect are actually usefully descriptive of the problem you are trying to approach. as always my first prescribed solution is "more money, so we can have more staff, so we can spend longer and try harder on projects," but there are obviously other problems here too

[fatehbaz]

[T]he Dutch Republic, like its successor the Kingdom of the Netherlands, [...] throughout the early modern period had an advanced maritime [trading, exports] and (financial) service [banking, insurance] sector. Moreover, Dutch involvement in Atlantic slavery stretched over two and a half centuries. [...] Carefully estimating the scope of all the activities involved in moving, processing and retailing the goods derived from the forced labour performed by the enslaved in the Atlantic world [...] [shows] more clearly in what ways the gains from slavery percolated through the Dutch economy. [...] [This web] connected them [...] to the enslaved in Suriname and other Dutch colonies, as well as in non-Dutch colonies such as Saint Domingue [Haiti], which was one of the main suppliers of slave-produced goods to the Dutch economy until the enslaved revolted in 1791 and brought an end to the trade. [...] A significant part of the eighteenth-century Dutch elite was actively engaged in financing, insuring, organising and enabling the slave system, and drew much wealth from it. [...] [A] staggering 19% (expressed in value) of the Dutch Republic's trade in 1770 consisted of Atlantic slave-produced goods such as sugar, coffee, or indigo [...].

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One point that deserves considerable emphasis is that [this slave-based Dutch wealth] [...] did not just depend on the increasing output of the Dutch Atlantic slave colonies. By 1770, the Dutch imported over fl.8 million worth of sugar and coffee from French ports. [...] [T]hese [...] routes successfully linked the Dutch trade sector to the massive expansion of slavery in Saint Domingue [the French colony of Haiti], which continued until the early 1790s when the revolution of the enslaved on the French part of that island ended slavery.

Before that time, Dutch sugar mills processed tens of millions of pounds of sugar from the French Caribbean, which were then exported over the Rhine and through the Sound to the German and Eastern European ‘slavery hinterlands’.

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Coffee and indigo flowed through the Dutch Republic via the same trans-imperial routes, while the Dutch also imported tobacco produced by slaves in the British colonies, [and] gold and tobacco produced [by slaves] in Brazil [...]. The value of all the different components of slave-based trade combined amounted to a sum of fl.57.3 million, more than 23% of all the Dutch trade in 1770. [...] However, trade statistics alone cannot answer the question about the weight of this sector within the economy. [...] 1770 was a peak year for the issuing of new plantation loans [...] [T]he main processing industry that was fully based on slave-produced goods was the Holland-based sugar industry [...]. It has been estimated that in 1770 Amsterdam alone housed 110 refineries, out of a total of 150 refineries in the province of Holland. These processed approximately 50 million pounds of raw sugar per year, employing over 4,000 workers. [...] [I]n the four decades from 1738 to 1779, the slave-based contribution to GDP alone grew by fl.20.5 million, thus contributing almost 40% of all growth generated in the economy of Holland in this period. [...]

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These [slave-based Dutch commodity] chains ran from [the plantation itself, through maritime trade, through commodity processing sites like sugar refineries, through export of these goods] [...] and from there to European metropoles and hinterlands that in the eighteenth century became mass consumers of slave-produced goods such as sugar and coffee. These chains tied the Dutch economy to slave-based production in Suriname and other Dutch colonies, but also to the plantation complexes of other European powers, most crucially the French in Saint Domingue, as the Dutch became major importers and processers of French coffee and sugar that they then redistributed to Northern and Central Europe. [...]

The explosive growth of production on slave plantations in the Dutch Guianas, combined with the international boom in coffee and sugar consumption, ensured that consistently high proportions (19% in 1770) of commodities entering and exiting Dutch harbors were produced on Atlantic slave plantations. [...] The Dutch economy profited from this Atlantic boom both as direct supplier of slave-produced goods [from slave plantations in the Dutch Guianas, from Dutch processing of sugar from slave plantations in French Haiti] and as intermediary [physically exporting sugar and coffee] between the Atlantic slave complexes of other European powers and the Northern and Central European hinterland.

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Text above by: Pepijn Brandon and Ulbe Bosma. "Slavery and the Dutch economy, 1750-1800". Slavery & Abolition Volume 42 (2021), Issue 1. Published online 28 February 2021. DOI at: doi dot org slash 10.1080/01440396 . 2021. 1860464 [Text within brackets added by me for clarity and context. Bold emphasis and some paragraph breaks/contractions added by me. Presented here for commentary, teaching, criticism.]

[pilgrimattinkercreek1974]

the thing about my stupid thesis is that i love my lesbian boss slash thesis advisor and ive been working on this project for two years and i care about it and find it interesting and theoretically this work as the basis for my chance to demonstrate what ive joyfully and enthusiastically learned across the last four years should be a rewarding exciting opportunity but i was overly ambitious with my thesis proposal and feel this constant pressure to be inventive and incisive due to my deliberately interdisciplinary training on top of regular old academic pressure and the impossibility of pleasing aforementioned lesbian boss thesis advisor and ive also invested such a personal emotional degree into it that criticism is kind of terrifying and unbearable and also i really dont know anything about statistics and then my shit got rocked by the fires effectively throwing everything in my system out of whack in ways i can barely identify

[thanatologie]

in a secondary, follow up note, in which no one cares (but me), full disclosure i'm a big fan of commonplace books. i keep one for every character i rp which...means i currently have a grand total of one (1) for @transistorized and it's full of mechanical and electrical engineering, space stuff, notes from books he canonically has mentioned he enjoys and i decided to read (i really do need a refresh on le morte d'arthur), stuff like that. character knowledge for the sake of having knowledge that character would have, just because i don't pick up characters easily, and when one decides to hang around, we're in it to win it.

so i guess that means i need to start a second one, because while i have a friend i can bug for mortuary stuff (he's a mortician) i'd also like to collect other fun tidbits like a magpie. and unlike with tony, who would scribble on a napkin and therefore would not give a tin shit about paper quality, it gives me an excuse to maybe use one of my everyday books from galen leather with the cosmo air light paper.

[steelycunt]

spoke to a girl in my seminar today who said shes done three readings for her dissertation. brother, we're gonna be okay

[unopenablebox]

listening to the new if books could kill is really weird as someone who was indeed a teen/tween in the Emergence of Social Media Era, in that like. actually me and my 50 pseudonymous close friends of a decade are doing quite well thank you. im glad you interviewed some teenagers to learn that they use online socializing tools for social interaction, which accordingly has the features of social interaction, but this is a fucking bizarre thing to listen to people explain to each other