Teaching Research Methodology: Everything’s a Case

Reddy, Colin David

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“…Notably, all the above designs include a "case" in some form. You can select a single case to conduct a process type analysis, a multiple case study to include both processes within cases and variations in variables between cases, or a large number of cases as in a cross-sectional or longitudinal type survey (Reddy, 2020). Typically, one will use qualitative methods to analyse a single or small number of cases and quantitative methods to analyse a large number of cases.…”

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A Framework of Rhetorical Moves Designed to Scaffold the Research Proposal Development Process

Reddy

2023

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Aim/Purpose: To provide a research proposal writing framework to help doctoral students argue and motivate their efforts at furthering the existing knowledge available to understand some phenomenon or theory. Background: I discuss how the cognitive process theory of writing and the science writing heuristic can lead to a set of rhetorical moves and question prompts that students can use to develop the content of their research proposals. Methodology: I searched the literature on research proposal writing and, more broadly, academic writing to locate teaching and learning concepts associated with my recent question prompt approach used to guide my doctoral students. I used search words such as “writing” and “question prompts.” My review led me to the cognitive process theory of writing and heuristic scaffolding. I searched further using keywords such as “rhetorical move” and “heuristic prompts.” I performed several iterations of literature searches and reviews. Contribution: Instead of guiding a linearly developed research proposal that begins with an Introduction and proceeds to a Literature Review and then a Research Design and Methods section, the framework reveals a research proposal’s underlying logical flow and content by describing five rhetorical moves: establishing a topic question from an interesting phenomenon, establishing research opportunities, selecting a research question, providing a tentative solution, and establishing a plan to investigate the solution. Thus, the framework contributes to scholarship about how educators can facilitate independent reflection and broader problem-solving at the doctoral research proposal development stage. Particularly for the social sciences, it reveals the promise of the cognitive process theory of writing, dual problem space model of reflection, and heuristic scaffolding as valuable theoretical perspectives for the supervision of the planning phase of doctoral research. Recommendations for Practitioners: Teachers and advisors may use the framework’s rhetorical moves and question prompts as cognitive scaffolds to help students navigate an ill-structured problem typical of doctoral research projects in the social sciences. The question type of scaffolding gives the research student more responsibility; rather than the thesis supervisor or advisor articulating a model or nominating the technique, they require the student to self-regulate and develop it independently. This helps deal with the oft-experienced circumstance in which the supervisor does not have time to interact directly and regularly with the student.

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A Framework of Rhetorical Moves Designed to Scaffold the Research Proposal Development Process

Reddy

2023

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“…Con la información que se llegue a recabar a través de dichos instrumentos, ellos fueron procesados de manera descriptiva midiendo el comportamiento de las variables de forma objetiva a través de datos reales, siendo un mecanismo para poder brindar posibles soluciones al problema identificado en un principio (Reddy, 2020).…”

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Gestión financiera y rentabilidad de una empresa proveedora de alimentos

Grández

Guerra

Cruz

2022

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Objetivo: determinar la incidencia de la gestión financiera en la rentabilidad de una empresa proveedora de alimentos, 2021. Metodología: estuvo conformada por un estudio de tipo aplicada, enfoque cuantitativo, nivel descriptivo-explicativo, diseño no experimental y corte transversal. La población estuvo conformada por 15 trabajadores, la muestra comprendió tan solo 3, siendo el gerente, contador y administrador. Las técnicas de recolección de datos fueron la entrevista, observación y análisis documental. Resultados: dieron a conocer que la gestión financiera es deficiente en un 44% reflejando un inadecuado manejo de los recursos corrientes. Por otra parte, el rendimiento no fue esperado en los 2 últimos años. Conclusión: la gestión financiera incide de manera positiva en la rentabilidad de la empresa proveedora de alimentos, el cual fue determinado a partir del ajuste de las pérdidas en cada uno de los recursos circulantes en los estados financieros siendo analizado con la aplicación de indicadores de rendimiento. En este sentido, se hace referencia que, si la empresa hubiese tomado las medidas necesarias y llevado un control eficiente de todos sus recursos corrientes la utilidad pudo haber sido superior a lo que se analizó en el último ejercicio fiscal.

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Teaching Research Methodology: Everything’s a Case

Cited by 2 publications

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A Framework of Rhetorical Moves Designed to Scaffold the Research Proposal Development Process

A Framework of Rhetorical Moves Designed to Scaffold the Research Proposal Development Process

Gestión financiera y rentabilidad de una empresa proveedora de alimentos

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