IDENTIFYING THE

INQUIRY AND
STATING PROBLEM

PRESENTATION OF :
EMMALYN B. SUMIDO and JOHN IRISH RIN
 Lesson5: SUBJECT MATTER OF THE INQUIRY
OR RESEARCH WHAT IS IT LIKE?
WHAT IS IT?
Novelty is the
The quality of being quality of being new.
new , original , or
unusual.
Of being striking ,
original or unusual.
NOVELTY Novelty may be the
shared experience of
a new cultural
perception of an
individual.
WHAT ARE SOME EXAMPLES?

Its potters took flamb

The novelty of the To be called beautiful was glazes for models , and
opinion is also alluded a novelty in his their pieces possessed an
to. experience. air of novelty that
attracted connoisseurs
 WHAT IS IT? WHAT IS IT LIKE?

Contemporary,
Is existing at the contemporaneous,
same time or of coincident all mean
present time period happening or existing at
the same time.

Contemporary often refers

to personsor their acts or
achievements:Hemingway
and Fitzgerald, though
CONTEMPORARY

Contemporary ,
shared few values.

WHAT ARE SOME EXAMPLES?

Contemporary dance is
There was a reading not blessed with a
Contemporary artist
of contemporary plethora of media
were selected coverage on any
poetry
platform
 WHAT IS IT LIKE?

WHAT IS IT?
>To cause the separate
threads of something Disentangle
>To find the correct
explanation for (something
that is difficult to
understand
>to fail or begin to fail

Become undone
UNRAVEL
Become or cause to
become undone by
separating the fibers
WHAT ARE SOME EXAMPLES? or threads of.

His frequent
The scientist are still Their plans
absences from home
unraveling the unraveled when she
caused his manager
secrets of DNA lost her job
to unravel
 WHAT IS IT? WHAT IS IT LIKE?

:To grind or mix The verb mull means

thoroughly to think deeply about
:To consider at length something

The way you mull

over your choice of
what college to
MULLING OVER attend

When you mull

something over , you
ponder or seriously
consider it.
WHAT ARE SOME EXAMPLES?

He stared absently at He found himself

Sofia gazed out the
his hand, as if he was mulling over the
window, mulling over
mulling that idea advice from another
the night
over brother.
GUIDELINES IN CHOOSING A RESEARCH TOPIC
1.INTEREST IN THE SUBJECT MATTER

Your interest in a topic may be caused by your rich

background knowledge about it and by its novelty ; meaning ,
Its unfamiliarity to you. Being curios about the subject , like a
conundrum or a puzzle , makes you to determined to unravel
the mystery or intriguing thing behind it . Your interest in the
subject pushes you to research, investigate ,or inquire about
with full motivation and enthusiasm, and energy.
2. AVAILABILITY OF INFORMATION
Collecting a lot of information as evidence to support your
claims about your subject matter from varied forms of literature
like books , journals , newspapers , among others, is a part and
parcel of any research work . Hence, in choosing a research topic,
Visit your library to check the availability of reading materials on
your choosing topic. Included in your investigation the availability
of reading materials are questions or how updated or authoritative
the materials are . Let this questions linger as you tour in the
library: What are the copyright date of the material? How old or
new are they? How expert or qualified the writers are in coming
out with such kind of reading materials about your topic?
3.TIMELINESS AND RELEVANCE OF THE TOPIC

The topic is relevance if it is yields results that are

instrumental in society improvement. It is timely if it is
related to the present . For instance unless it is a pure or
historical research, a research on the ins and outs of
people’s revolutionary acts of prosper more if it tackles
the contemporary revolutionary actions rather than those
in the ancient time.
4. LIMITATIONS ON THE SUBJECT

This makes you link your choosing with course

requirements . For example, to make you complete
the requirements, your teacher instructs you the
submit a paper that will apply the key principles you
learned in business psychology , education and so
on. In this case, You have no freedom to choose your
topic based on your interest , but has to decide on
one topic to finish your course.
5.PERSONAL RESOURCES

Before sticking fully to your final choice , assess your

research abilities in terms of your financial standing , health
condition , mental capacity , needed facilities and time
allotment to enable you to complete your research . Imagine
yourself pouring much time and effort into its initial stage ,
only to find out later that you are unable to complete it
because of your failure raise the amount needed for
questionnaire printing and interview trips(Barbour 2014)
Research topics to be avoided

1.Controversial Topics.

These are topics that defend greatly on the writer’s

opinion, which may tend to biased or prejudicial. Facts cannot
support topics like these.
2.Highly technical subjects

For a beginner researching on topics

that require an advance study ,technical
knowledge and vast experience is a very
difficult task.
3.Hard to investigate subjects

A subjects is hard to investigate if there

are no available reading materials about
it and if such materials are not up-to-
date.
4.Too Broad subjects

Topics that are too broad will prevent you from

giving a concentrated or an in-depth analysis of
the subjects matter of the paper . The remedy to
this is to narrow or limit the topic to a smaller
one.
5.Too Narrow Subject

These Subjects are so limited or specific that

an extensive thorough searching or reading for
information about these is necessary.
6.Vague Subject

Choosing topics like these will prevent you from

having a clear focus on paper . For instance, title
beginning with indefinite adjectives such as several,
many ,some, etc., as in “Some remarkable traits of a
Filipino” or “Several people’s comments on the RH law,
“ Are vague enough to decrease the readers’ interest
and curiosity.
 END OF DISCUSSION

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