The Ultimate Guide to Research Methods and Methodologies for Collecting High-Quality Data

Looking for research methods and methodologies that will help you collect high-quality data? Look no further! This guide provides the ultimate list of research methods and methodologies for research scholars. So what are you waiting for? Start your research today!

What is a Research Method?

A research method is a systematic approach to collecting and analyzing data. Qualitative data are collected through interviews, observations, and focus groups. Quantitative data are collected through surveys, experiments, and questionnaires. There are three main research methods and methodologies that are being followed in education:

1.      APA citation

2.      Chicago style citation

3.      MLA citation

Let’s deep drive into each one by one:

1. APA citation: Formatted according to the APA Publication Manual 7 (7th ed.). Simply copy it to the Reference page as is. The APA Publication Manual is commonly used to report research results in the social & natural sciences. APA style standards are used for reporting statistical analyses in academic writing. Statistical Analysis involves gathering and testing quantitative information to make inferences about a population. A statistic is any numerical value that describes a sample. It can be a proportion, range, or measurement, among other things; it may also describe an entire group of people.

E.g.: APA in-text citation style uses the author's last name and the year of publication, for example: (Field, 2005)

2. Chicago style citation:  The Chicago Manual of Style (17th Edition), currently in its 17th printing, was created to help research scholars properly reference their sources. The Chicago style has three types of referencing styles: 1) Notes and bibliography; 2) Author-date; 3) In-text citations. This guide shows how to format references according to the notes and bibliography style.

E.g.: Author’s first name last name, Title of Book (Place of publication: publisher, year), page number(s). Full note (first mention) For example: (Albert Einstein, The Meaning of Relativity (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1923), 44–45.

3. MLA citation:  Formatted following the guidelines outlined in the MLA Handbook. Simply copy it to the Works Cited page as it is. In MLA Style referencing the works of others in the text is done using parenthesis. This method involves providing appropriate source information in parentheses whenever the author quotes another person’s work. Usually, the easiest way to do this is simply to place all of the source information at the end of the quoted sentence (i.e., just before the period). However, there are times when it makes sense to place the parenthetical elsewhere in a sentence or to omit certain information.

E.g.: MLA in-text citation style uses the author's last name and the page number from which the quotation or paraphrase is taken, for example: (Smith 163). If the source does not use page numbers, do not include a number in the parenthetical citation: (Smith).

The purpose of this blog is to teach a person how to choose the right research methodology, based on the problem they're trying to solve or the problem they're trying to answer. We hope this blog post has been helpful and we encourage you to stay tuned for more interesting blogs, just like this one.

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