Research Problem

Most of the times you need to focus to narrow a research paper topic. It is very rare that you find the specific topic that you want to research without any focus and thought. Finding the specific research paper topic is crucial to the success of your research paper. You have a limited time, and other human and nonhuman resources, …

The principles that apply to choosing a title for the research paper are the same as choosing a title for any other piece of academic writing. You have to apply the same rule if you want to choose a title for a blog or a web article etc. Once you know the topic for your research paper you can create a title as well. …

After deciding on the topic for your research the next step is to narrow down research paper topic. Narrowing the topic for your research paper helps you make it more manageable and feasible to be undertaken in a timely manner. This step is very important for your research paper since this helps pave the way for a successful research project. …

The students should have knowledge of what research paper topics to avoid and what are most favorable. There are certain topics that are not suitable for any research paper and knowing about them will help you better select your topic. Below is a list of the types of research paper topics to avoid by the students. Avoid research topics that are …

Choosing the topic for your research paper is perhaps the most daunting task because it effects every stage of research. Novice researchers quite often cannot forecast the disappointment they might go through in case they did not make a good choice. The researcher needs to go through several stages of brainstorming, reflecting and pondering before reaching to the final topic. …

Concepts and variables are mental images; concepts are highly subjective and cannot be measured unless they are operationalized while variables can be measured on one of the statistical scales. to understand concepts and variables let’s read about them in detail. What are concepts? Concepts are highly subjective in nature and that makes it difficult to use them as they are …

Why write a literature review in research? Every student thinks about this question at least once, what are the benefits of writing a literature review?  Before writing the literature review one must understand the significance of reviewing the literature and writing it in your research paper. The significance of the literature review is twofold, it benefits you a lot as …

Hypothesis testing Hypothesis testing is used in research to agree or disagree with the research hypothesis that the researcher has formulated for his research. It is a statistical procedure that infers whether the research hypothesis is valid or not. To understand the role of hypothesis in research methodology one should have knowledge about the types and errors of testing a …

The interval scale has all the properties of ordinal and nominal scale plus the benefit that it provides equal intervals among categories. The values in the interval scale can take positive or negative values. This property enables the use of statistical analysis on data measured using interval scale. Age, IQ, temperature and dates are few examples of an interval scale. …

The ordinal scale ranks the individuals, responses or objects into sub-categories and it also makes it possible to rank these sub-categories into some order of magnitude. This property of ordinal scale, to rank objects in some order, makes it different from the nominal scale.  It does not quantify “how much” different in magnitude each sub-category is from the other. For …