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Novice researchers’ weaknesses in qualitative research writing

Qualitative research is usually conducted using descriptive or exploratory research designs whereby the goal of the study is to understand the phenomenon from the participant’s perspective. Therefore, qualitative research reports usually contain rich descriptions to elucidate their meanings and the...

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Main Author: Ting, Su Hie
Format: Proceeding
Language:English
Published: Jabatan Penyelidikan dan Teknologi, Institut Pariwisata Ambarrukmo (STIPRAM), Yogyakarta, Indonesia. 2022
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P Philology. Linguistics
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spelling my.unimas.ir.406492023-10-11T06:20:04Z http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/40649/ Novice researchers’ weaknesses in qualitative research writing Ting, Su Hie P Philology. Linguistics Qualitative research is usually conducted using descriptive or exploratory research designs whereby the goal of the study is to understand the phenomenon from the participant’s perspective. Therefore, qualitative research reports usually contain rich descriptions to elucidate their meanings and the researcher needs to ensure that their experiences and opinions are clearly delineated. However, before qualitative researchers can reach this stage, they should comply with research reporting conventions. This study examined the weaknesses of novice researchers in reporting qualitative research results. The specific aspects examined were: (1) reporting of main analytic findings, and (2) inclusion of evidence in qualitative results. The participants were 151 undergraduate students in a Malaysian university who were enrolled in a research method course. They were given two newspaper articles to analyse and asked to present their results as a concept map and a write-up with excerpts. Analysis of their compliance with research writing conventions showed that only 24.84% of 151 participants wrote an analysis that had “the smell of research”. A majority wrote “essay pieces” by extracting information from the articles, but did not present their analysis results. A majority did not know how to introduce their results with the purpose of the analysis, and the kinds of texts analysed. In the write-up, they also failed to make reference to the concept map and excerpts from the articles. The participants could represent the relationship among themes and sub-themes in the concept map but many failed to provide an appropriate heading for the figure. As much as 94.12% of the participants did not conclude their write-up by highlighting the main outcomes of their analysis. The findings revealed the weaknesses in qualitative research writing which deserve attention in postgraduate pursuit and research method courses. Jabatan Penyelidikan dan Teknologi, Institut Pariwisata Ambarrukmo (STIPRAM), Yogyakarta, Indonesia. 2022 Proceeding PeerReviewed text en http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/40649/3/NOVICE%20RESEARCHERS%E2%80%99%20%20-%20Copy.pdf Ting, Su Hie (2022) Novice researchers’ weaknesses in qualitative research writing. In: INTERNATIONAL PAPER COMPETITION 2022, 29 Oktober 2022, Virtual, Online.
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Novice researchers’ weaknesses in qualitative research writing
description Qualitative research is usually conducted using descriptive or exploratory research designs whereby the goal of the study is to understand the phenomenon from the participant’s perspective. Therefore, qualitative research reports usually contain rich descriptions to elucidate their meanings and the researcher needs to ensure that their experiences and opinions are clearly delineated. However, before qualitative researchers can reach this stage, they should comply with research reporting conventions. This study examined the weaknesses of novice researchers in reporting qualitative research results. The specific aspects examined were: (1) reporting of main analytic findings, and (2) inclusion of evidence in qualitative results. The participants were 151 undergraduate students in a Malaysian university who were enrolled in a research method course. They were given two newspaper articles to analyse and asked to present their results as a concept map and a write-up with excerpts. Analysis of their compliance with research writing conventions showed that only 24.84% of 151 participants wrote an analysis that had “the smell of research”. A majority wrote “essay pieces” by extracting information from the articles, but did not present their analysis results. A majority did not know how to introduce their results with the purpose of the analysis, and the kinds of texts analysed. In the write-up, they also failed to make reference to the concept map and excerpts from the articles. The participants could represent the relationship among themes and sub-themes in the concept map but many failed to provide an appropriate heading for the figure. As much as 94.12% of the participants did not conclude their write-up by highlighting the main outcomes of their analysis. The findings revealed the weaknesses in qualitative research writing which deserve attention in postgraduate pursuit and research method courses.
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