Good morning. Finally, here is the format for your non-experimental mini-research. The Introduction section basically answers the question, what is the problem? It establishes what the topic of interest is about without going into too much detail. The middle to latter part of the introduction looks at the more specific aspects of the research topic by discussing the findings of previous research. You might know this section as the review of related literature. What is important is that you connect the results of past studies and relate them to the current topic at hand. Often, you will also find a statement of the research problem in question form. This clarifies what exactly you are trying to explore or test in your present study. The Method section lays out the steps you undertook to explore or test your research problems and justifies why you chose that particular research method. The Participants subsection should describe your research participants and their important characteristics. The Measures or Instruments subsection says something about the tools you used in your study. If questionnaires were used, report their psychometric properties, scoring procedure, and interpretation. If observation or interview was used, report how you went about the process, if any coding system was employed to facilitate the recording of observations, and if participants behaviors or responses were taped or transcribed. The Procedures subsection reveals the step-by-step process by which you conducted your survey/experiment/observation. The Analysis subsection explains what you did to the data that you gathered. If any statistical analyses were done on the data, then explain how it was done in this subsection. The Results and Discussion section summarizes what you found out after data gathering and translates the meaning behind the data using text and supplementary tables or graphs. Report the main findings by summarizing any statistical analysis you made. In the case of qualitative research, you may present the major themes you obtained from your observations or interviews, or even direct quotations extracted from interviews. The Discussion part is an attempt by the researcher/s to provide possible explanations for the results. Here, you explain if the original research problems were answered or not, and why they were/were not answered. You may interpret your findings in light of past research results by asking, do the results of the present study agree or clash with previous findings? Do the results of the present study offer alternative explanations as to why this behavior or phenomenon occurs? Finally, the References section should contain all of the references you cited in your paper.
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