research report writing

1. IDEA Nepal
Skill Development Training
Creating a Good Research
Report
- Jeeban Amgain, PhD
CEO
Academy of Innovation for Economic
Development Nepal (IDEA Nepal)
October 15, 2020

3. Presentation Outlook
• What are the qualities of a good article?
• How to maintain the quality of introductory
part, literature review, research methods and
conclusion sections?
• What your reviewer seeks in your research
report ? How to avoid desk rejection?

5. Qualities of a Good Article
• Assume that you have prepared a research paper.
When you submit in good international journal,
you may receive an email from journal editor
stating that:
• Your article falls short of standard.
• Your research is not publishable.
Especially if you are an early researcher or do not
have any experience of international publication,
such things happen obviously.

6. Qualities of a Good Article?
Why this happens?
What are the factors that makes your paper
poor ?

7. Qualities of a Good Article
Possible Reasons:
• Unprofessional abstract
• Weak introductory part
• Broken flow of writing
• Presence of too many typos
• Rough tables and charts
• Conclusion not based with observation
• No originality or no contribution to the literature
• Difficulty in Research methods
• Poor English writing

8. How to maintain the quality of introductory
part?
Please consider the following points.
• Start with problem or significance
• Mention the existing situation
• Specify the research gap
• Explain the motivation: why do you conduct
this research and what do you find out?
• Explain your contribution so that your
research is suitable to publish

9. How to maintain the quality of
literature review part?
Please consider the following points.
• Focus on scholarly (peer-reviewed)
articles.(At least 20% SSCI indexed articles)
• Do not site a lot of papers( which have no proper sources.
But select major and few good and latest quality papers.
• Paraphrase in proper way to avoid plagiarism.
• Mention theoretical, empirical, international and national
perspectives in separate paragraphs.
• Show a clear research gap.

10. How to select research method?
• This is one of the difficult tasks in research. The
method of model selection depends on what is
your purpose of research.
• Many models are simply based on regression
model (cause and effect relation). So do not be
panic in choosing model. You can choose any one
among many.
• The variable you choose during analysis
determines the suitable model.
• If you are writing project report, there is no need
to use models.

11. Data Presentation and Description
• Present only that data which can justify the
answer of research question.
• Be a lawyer to justify your research solution
• Describe the logically from different angle

12. Give special attention in writing conclusion
• This is very important section. A professional
writer includes the following facts.
• In first paragraph:
The summary of what you wanted to find out,
what method used and what you found.
• In second paragraph:
• Your major observation and findings.
• In third paragraph:
A policy implication of your research.

13. What your reviewer seeks in your research
report ? How to avoid desk rejection?
• Is introduction part written smoothly to raise the
research issue?
• Is your research paper free of typos?
• Is your research is in well format? (Heading
sequence, table, graph etc.)
• Has the paper cited latest and renown research
papers?
• Is your conclusion based on the observation?
• Does your paper have originality or contribution?

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training
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