Research plan

First stage: choosing the object of research

            Choosing the object of research is an important stage of research and creation of scientific and research project that will later influence the success of the project in general.

            If the topic is chosen poorly work could lead to disappointment. That is due to the fact that some topics can bring new informative result in the nearest future, while others will not give such an outcome in the nearest time (for example due to the absence of the research methodic). In other words, not everything in science that looks interesting can be productively studied.

            There are two main parts for creation of the topic:

            -​ General information chosen for the analysis;

            -​ Forecasted result – personal research.

            After comparison of known facts and modeling, forecasting results, we formulate the topic of research.

            Number of topics that need development, inexhaustible both theoretically and practically. However, knowledge of certain general provisions and recommendations may facilitate the selection of relevant topic. We believe these provisions should include:

            1. According to the fact that the topic identifies the subject of the study, you must first set the object and purpose of the study.

            2. The most important criterion is the correct choice of topics of relevance.

            When the topic is chosen, it is necessary to articulate properly. Note that the title should be presented as an object of study and its subject. Topic usually consists of 7-9 words. It cannot begin with the words: research, identification, search and more.

            The first step in the research work is related to the specification of the object of knowledge. As an object, in scientific practice, it is used to examine the research area.

            Object is - the area of the search - general. Its question "What is considered?". It is a process or phenomenon that travels through problem situation and is selected for study.

            Subject is a side view, "projection" from which one can point out, present the object, it’s an angle at which an object is analyzed. Its question: "Which aspects (relations, functions, methods, properties) of the object are considered?". Purpose of the study is contained within the object.

            The object and subject of study as a category of scientific process is interrelated to each other as an integral and partial, general and specific. The object is determined by the part that is the subject of research, and the concept of the subject includes the main and most important aspects, features and attributes of the object.

            Relevance of the research is an answer to the question:

            Who needs it?

            Why is it necessary?

            Relevance of the topic is one of the main criteria for choosing the topic of research, this is what motivates researcher to solve the problem of the study in exact time under the conditions emerged.

            Each chosen topic must solve the determined problem. Problem forsees solution, a foreseen result that is called the purpose of the research that is reached through the determined tasks.

            Goal of the research is the planed result that must be reflected in the results of scientific project.

Second stage: Process of the research of the object

            It is necessary at the beginning of research to outline the general contours of scientific inquiry, to determine its orienteers and main stages, to formulate research tasks.

            Another difficult task to face during the scientific research is to review informational sources on the problem of the research.

            The review of the informational sources helps to determine main direction of scientific research, it’s importance in the development of science and practice, relevance of the topic.

            Presented in the project overview of literature sources shows professional competence of the researcher, his/her personal input into the development if the topic with already known scientific facts. Main reason to study the literature is not to borrow material, but to reconsider the information and think about personal concept that can later be a personal input of the author.

            Experiment – is a method for studying an object, where a researcher actively and purposefully affect it by creating artificial conditions necessary to identify some, unknown features.

            Experiment is conducted in the following cases:

            -​ in attempt to discover earlier unknown qualities of the subject;

            -​ when checking allegiance of the theoretical data;

            -​ while demonstrating of certain phenomenon or process.

            To carry out experimental studies it is necessary to determine the field of research and its stages.

            Empirical research contains:

            -​ grounded theoretical principles of organization and conducting experimental research;

            -​ method of diagnostic phase of the study;

            -​ data on the diagnostic study conducted;

            -​ analyzing and summarizing the results of the diagnostic phase of the study.

            General conclusions are logical conclusion of research, they summarize basic theoretical and practical research results. They are presented as separate concise rules. The first paragraph of conclusions necessarily focuses on the state of development of the problem (in the theoretical and practical aspects). After that the information on performance of task listed in the Introduction and set in the beginning of the project. It is necessary to stress the qualitative and quantitative results obtained. Conclusions do not repeat introduction, main part and conclusions to sections.

Everything that is done in your research for the first time, describes its novelty. Scientific novelty of fundamental research means contribution to the science that opens new research perspectives. It should show the difference between the results obtained from the previously known ones, describe the degree of novelty (first obtained, improved, have received further development).

Third stage: Presentation of the research results

            Each area of scientific knowledge has its own format of the reporting on the scientific research.

            To familiarize with some of these formats you might have to look through scientific magazines of the same field of knowledge where you plan to conduct a research. Pay close attention to the names of the sections, reference’s style, bibliography.

            Research project has standard structure that consists for few interrelated parts of the text. Shown below stages of the project can help to prepare its content (you can change, complement and concretize them):

            1.​ Cover page.

            2.​ Content.

            3.​ Introduction.

            4.​ Theoretical part (overview sections that end with determination of problems and

hypothesis of the research).

            5.​ Empirical section (program of the research, samples, results, conclusions).

            6.​ Conclusions.

            7.​ Literature reference.

            8.​ Annex (if there are any).

            Preparation for presentation of scientific research is completed with complying a list of references used that can be given in one of the following ways: in the alphabet order of last names of first authors or names of the books, in the order of mentioning of sources in the text by continuous numbering, in chronological order.

Fourth stage: Demonstration of the research results

            For the announcement of the results of scientific project each participant of the competition, Olympiad, conference, etc., is usually given 10-15 minutes. During this time it is necessary to point out the relevance of the research, analyze the current state of the issue, to pay special attention to the results of research that have been offered to personally by pupil, to compare them with already known.

            One of the important problems of the report is compositional design of future speech. It can contain the following composition:

            -​ introduction;

            - clarification of the subject of the research;

            -​ exposition of the material;

            -​ its confirmation by specific examples, facts;

            -​ conclusions.

            In the general sense "presentation" - is a public presentation of something new, such as book, television program, and specific organization.

            The word "presentation" comes from the Latin "presentation", which means the transferring, handing. Thus, the presentation - presents data.

            Computer presentation - is a linked set of consecutive slides (frames) in a specific format with concise information on a certain topic that is a handy tool that allows you to clearly and in simple terms convey to the audience certain information. All slides are saved in one file. Presentation can contain text, graphic objects (pictures, diagrams, autoshapes, etc.), controls, sound, video and animated images (the last three components relating to the media).