1. Format of Research (To be submitted on December 15-due date)
CHAPTERS 1-3 (fastened in assigned color folder)
By Dr. Arlene Opina
FOLLOW THIS SEQUENCE d. Foreign Studies
1. Title page – Type in Inverted Pyramid e. Local Studies
Sample: f. NOTES
Important: Relate every article to your present
COPING STRATEGIES AND SOCIO-CULTURAL TRAITS study. Insert the review after each article. You
OF WOMEN IN THE WORKS OF REPRESENTATIVE should have 20 articles (5 in each category) of
FILIPINO WRITERS not more than 15 pages.
9. CHAPTER 3
A Research Paper Methods and Procedure
Presented to a. Opening statement
Dr. Arlene S. Opina b. Research Methodology
Centro Escolar University c. Subjects of the Study
d. Sampling Technique
e. Instruments Used
In Partial Fulfillment f. Procedure of Data Gathering
of the Requirements in Communication Skills 2 g. Statistical Treatment of the Data
Bachelor of Science in Psychology 10. Bibliography – list of all references in alphabetical
order
11. Appendices - Attachments
by a. Letter/s of request to conduct study (optional)
_________ _________ b. Sample questionnaire
_________ _________ c. Curriculum vitae
_________ _________
_________ _________ Important: Please observe the following mechanics
March, 2010 1. Folder (short) color – (Apple Green) MedTech 2A,
(Blue)Pharmacy, (Red) MedTech 2D, (Pink)Psych,
2. Font – Type in Bookman Old style size 12
3. Spacing – use double spacing; no empty nor blank
2. Acknowledgment spaces on any pages except on the last sheet of the
3. Dedication chapter(all chapters).
4. Table of contents 4. Pagination – Page numbers should be placed at the
5. List of Tables top right corner of the paper. Do not indicate any
6. List of Figures page number on every first page of any chapter.
Leave it blank but understood to be there.
7. CHAPTER 1 – all CAPS 5. Margin - 1.5 inches on the left;
The Problem and Its Background - 1 inch on the top, right, and bottom.
a. Introduction 6. Use Third Person – do not use “I, me, we, us, you,
b. Background of the Study your” in all texts.
c. Setting of the Study 7. Upper and Lower Case - All Headings
d. Theoretical and Conceptual Framework 8. No Abbreviations in all texts except those
e. Statement of the Problem acceptable in formal standard English.
f. Assumptions of the Study 9. No Slang – Never use “&,w/c,@, bcoz” and the like.
g. Hypotheses of the Study Use only Formal English language.
h. Significance of the Study 10. No Contractions – Avoid the use of “it’s, they’re,
i. Scope and Limitation of the Study we’ve” and others.
j. Definition of Terms – underline the term; place 11. Use Past Tense Verbs – Change all verbs into past
a period after it; arrange the terms tense
alphabetically; and define the term in a 12. Endnotes – superscript, first name, MI, surname,
complete sentence edition, (place published: publisher, year published),
page
8. CHAPTER 2 13. Bibliography – surname, first name, MI. edition.
Review of Related Literature and Studies place published: publisher, year published.
a. Opening statement - arrange the references
b. Foreign Literature alphabetically
c. Local Literature
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