When it comes to writing a research project that gets you awarded with an A or B grade, you can’t do it alone. You need vibrant people who can make your ideas well refined and scholastic. It is imperative for you to consult some categories of individuals that would make your work incredibly excellent. That is why there is even a place for acknowledgements in your project’s front matter: even the school system understands that you require able hands to assist (and not fully be) you – the researcher…
When it comes to writing a research project that gets you awarded with an A or B grade, you can’t do it alone. You need vibrant people who can make your ideas well refined and scholastic. It is imperative for you to consult some categories of individuals that would make your work incredibly excellent. That is why there is even a place for acknowledgements in your project’s front matter: even the school system understands that you require able hands to assist (and not fully be) you – the researcher. Key Contributors Today’s blog article centers on these indelible characters that would make you look smart. If you think well of it, you would see that these kind of people are in all spheres of life. In marriages for instance, the wife stands as a support to the husband that does not mean she necessarily takes the roles and responsibilities of the man. Likewise, in business, the CEO get started with the entrepreneurial quest, however (s)he needs other men and women to make the dream come true. Now, who are those “good samaritans” that would assist in your own research work: 1. Parents/ Guardians I know this first set of people may look rather obvious. Yet, many researchers neglect to recognize and appreciate them up until the acknowledgements writing. Your guardians or parents always assist mostly financially with funds to help smooth running of the project work. In fact, the family as a whole is a good backbone in such matters. Luckily, if you have one or two family members who are knowledgeable in your research area, they can assist you and their aid costs almost nothing monetarily to you. They may even give you some pocket monies after helping you with the work.2. Lecturers/ Supervisors These are your watchdogs. They are there to make sure you are on the right track. They are more like your guardian angels. They try to explain to you how you should go about the work and even redress your steps for you when you are going astray. All they can do for you is to render advice, give valuable feedback to you and some even go farther to providing you with materials, data sources and other useful instruments, gadgets and tools to make the project stressfree. These academic personnels along with other educational officers like external examiners are also in charge of gradibg your work at the end of the hurdle. 3. Informants/ Interviewees/ Survey Groups A researcher needs data in almost all the kinds of project, thesis, dissertation or other research works. Hence, it is imperative that the researcher contacts individuals in the area of study, population of study or case studies s/he is researching. You cannot do without these people, because they are the ones to give you empirical illuminating data that you woulf use to analyde the phenomenon you have set forward to look into. They would give you valid primary information concerning your project topic. These people can be in the local government you are working on, they can be patients in a hospital, taxi drivers in the garage or any other place your case needs you to administer your questionnaires, interview your respondents or carry out your group discussions or observations.4. Research Assistants/ Helpers Not everyone needs these set of people. You can either do your project yourself of get these individuals to assist you with your work. As their names imply, they are just to aid you with the work, especially certain parts you find difficult in the research. You would also be involved in the process of the work. You are not to leave the work to be done solely by them, unless it would seize to be your own research work but theirs. Only difference is that your name is likely to be the one on it. These experts are meant to help you with just one or some aspects of the work like sourcing for secondary data for you, helping with drafting some aspects of literature review or even training you on how to carry out your data presentation and analysis. 5. Printing Press This comprises of the printing and photocopy menial workers. They are mostly responsible for printing out and making copies of materials you may have consulted during the course of the work. They are always useful when it comes to making copies of excerpts from books, journals, encyclopedias, dictionaries, among other research materials. These people make these copies with their discretion, guided by the awareness of the copyright laws of the publishers and authors. In other words, they make copies that are permissible and do away with those that can lead to any violation of writer’s rights. Some can even help with typing your manually-written chapters up until the end of the research work.6. Friends and Colleagues Not only you are mostly the one that is involved in one project or the other. Sometimes, the case studies or project topics of two or more researchers may be closely related in such a way that the end of one is the beginning of the other, or even they have quite the same storyline. Hence, it would often be a no-brainer for you to mix up with such researchers and work something together. Your research work may be less strenous only if you take the time to find out who is also into your focus area. They may have in their possession useful materials that you need to successful write an A-grade research work. So, be on the lookout for useful networks amongst your friends and colleagues. 7. Library/ Archive/ Internet/ Book Store This being the last is mostly the one many students and researchers use as the main contributor in their research work. Yet, the online search engine called Google is not the only useful contributor. No doubt, it is very laudible to make use of the internet, they are however other sources of secondary data like libraries, archives, book stores and so on. You can get books, newspapers, magazines, journals, papers, notes, among other reference materials in these places which would mostly prove useful in your research works. The librarian, store keeper among other personnels are always in those places to assist you in your search of those reference materials. Endeavor to go in search for them there, not only on the internet.How we can Assist you A.O.S Academy Ltd. is a Language and Linguistics Institute that owns and operates A.O.S Research Institute. The Institute has bonafide research assistants that help student researchers on their project, thesis and dissertation works. The institute also provide them with very useful research materials, support and guidance all through their research write-up. So, kindly contact the institute on 08107714449 or 09091884943 today if you need any assistance. Talk to you soon !