Đề cương khoá học Kỹ năng viết Đề cương nghiên cứu

1. Oct 2016
Hiep Pham
Bản quyền thuộc về Học bổng ThS TS
Tài liệu lưu hành nội bộ, xin vui lòng không chia
Sẻ với bất kỳ bên thứ ba nào khi chưa có sự đồng
ý của tác giả
Writing a Research Proposal in
Social Sciences

2. Syllabus
Learning
objective
• You will learn the fundamental concepts of research
method and think a scientist in social sciences
• You are able to write a completed research proposal
Required text • Bhattacherjee, A. (2012). Social science research:
Principles, methods, and practices.
• Lussier, R. N. (2011). Research methods and statistics
for Business. Long Grove, IL: Waveland Press.
Time 12 sessions (~12 weeks) with 2.5 hour each
Attendance policy Maximum 1 back-up sessions
Assessment • Quiz
• Reading journal’s article
• Research Proposal Defend
Teaching and
Learning Methods
• Individualized
• Assignment – Based
• Step-by-Step

3. Course Schedule
Week 1 • Side talk 1: academic databases & search engine
• Research Goal, Objectives and Types
• Basic terms and concepts
• What is a good research?
Week 2 • Theory and Model in Research
• Moderating and Mediating effects
• Research gap, Research question and research hypothesis
• What’s the New in research? And how do different disciplines
regard the New?
Week 3 • Research’s structure
• Presenting research idea (student)
• Homework assignment (journal’s article reading)
Week 4 • Research structure (continued)
Week 5 -6 • Assignment 1: Presenting Journal’s article
• Ethics in research
• Paraphrase and plagiarism
• APA citation and references
• Side talk 2: What are ISI, Scopus indexed journals

4. Course Schedule
Week 7 • Quiz
• Research designs and classification
Week 8 • Quiz answers
• Sample, population and sample collecting methods
• Pros and cons of primary/secondary data
• Reliability and Validity
Week 9 • Introducing some quantitative methods or some influential
theories
• Presenting research objectives, hypotheses, measurements
of variables, data collection
Week 10 • Questionnaire design and principles
• Using free website to create an online questionnaire
• Scale
• Hypothesis Ho, H1
Week 11-12 • Research proposal Defend
• Guest Speaker