Week 1: Introduction

First session was about basic concepts of what research is and how we are supposed to write our critical report. proposal.

Scientific research:

1. looking for expanding the human knowledge
2. find something new for humanity
3. should have a base to prove the arguments on the question
4. experiments
5. structure
6. expected to make some results (long-term)

Proposal Structure:

1. Relevance

2. Literature review

3.  Research gap

  You need to show that nobody has studied this topic from your particular scientific perspective (time frame, side, etc.).

4. Research Question

Shows what the research is about; must show the end point of the research – research in itself is not an objective.

5. Hypothesis

Supposed explanation to the research question; it can be wrong (research result may contradict some conventional positions in science, which may lead to scientific revolution).

6. Methodology

1. a very long part
2. theoretical framework (tells us about the things we will look at)
3. method – a tool to work with data to find some causalities, correlation, etc.
4. methodology – plan of using methods
5. what data will be used in the research
6. limitations
7. sequence of methods