Research Methodology
Teaching Staff: Komianos Vassilis
Course Code: THE102
Course Category: General Background
Course Type: Compulsory
Course Level: Undergraduate
Course Language: Greek
Delivery method: Lectures
Semester: 1st
ECTS: 5
Teaching Units: 3
Teaching Hours: 3
E Class Page: https://opencourses.ionio.gr/courses/DAVA121/
Teaching Structure:
Activity | Semester Workload |
---|---|
Lectures | 26 |
Lab Lectures | 0 |
Tutorial | 13 |
Hands-on Lab | 0 |
Practice and Preparation | 30 |
Independent Study | 56 |
Course Total (ECTS: 5) | 125 |
Prerequisite to / Recommended to: PRO050, PRO750
Short Description:
The course introduces students to research methods and academic writing. Additionally, the course introduces students: a) to advanced skills related with information search, retrieval, evaluation, information technology and information ethics, b) to technical reading and writing for professional and academic purposes.
Objectives - Learning Outcomes:
Students will be acquainted with sources, resources and research methods available in order to:
- Form advanced search strategies
- Use all available and current carriers of music-and-audiovisual-related information
- Apply advanced search methods in bibliographic and meta-bibliographic databases
- Apply advanced skills to form a research question, to organize an academic essay, to identify/evaluate sources, to argument/reason and to cite appropriately
- Apply advanced research paper-related writing skills
- Apply advanced skills to use reference management tools
- Apply advanced skills to find other scholar/academic content
- Apply advanced ‘surfing in the Web’ skills in order to find valid music-and-audiovisual-specific information.
- Apply advanced skills to evaluate annotated bibliography
- Apply advanced skills to evaluate authority, currency, objectivity, purpose, relevance, etc.
- Apply advanced skills to identify the importance of primary sources in the audiovisual arts domain.
- Understand intellectual property, open access, academic integrity and plagiarism related issues.
- Apply advanced skills to identify and use several citation styles, e.g., APA, MLA, Chicago, Harvard, etc.
Syllabus:
1st Week: Research Methodology: a review of the fundamental terms and concepts
2nd Week: Information packages - Theory and practice
- Introduction to basic concepts
- Introduction to sources: primary, secondary, tertiary.
- Information resources, types of content, types of carrier, types of media
- Sources consulted for citation-and-references-related purposes.
- Examples
- Practice in class
- Assignment
3rd Week: Information access, information retrieval, etc. theory and practice
- Introduction to access, search processes/techniques and information retrieval. General issues
- Identifying sources.
- Evaluating resources/sources. General attributes. General principles
- Introduction to Ionian University e-resources (e.g., Library OPAC, HeaL-Link, Project Muse, Jstor, Grove Art, etc.)
- Research strategies
- Examples
- Practice in class
- Assignment-Discussion
4th Week: Academic papers-specific issues - Theory and practice
- Introduction to types of research/scientific research and research papers
- Research question and research methods. General issues
- Advanced research strategies, e.g. Proximity operators
- Access, search process and scientific content-related information retrieval
- Evaluating sources/resources. Specific attributes.
- Argumentation/Documentation process. Referencing. Citing sources.
- Examples
- Practice in class
- Assignment
5th Week: Academic/scholar journals vs Magazines- Content Selection/Evaluation-related criteria - Theory and practice
- Identifying/classifying periodicals (i.e. scientific content vs commercial content or journals/serials vs magazines)
- Evaluating content (print, hybrid, online).
- Examples
- Practice in class
- Assignment-Discussion
6th Week: The research problem and research strategies - Theory and practice
- Steps of the research process
- Identify and Develop Your Topic
- Review the literature
- Define/clarify the problem
- Define terms and concepts
- Define population and methods
- Develop plan
- Examples
- Practice in class
7th Week: Content evaluation skills - Theory and practice
- Evaluation
- Assessment of results/findings
- Identifying the sections of journal-style scientific papers
- Technical reading
- Producing new knowledge. The importance of primary research and research papers
- Related terms-concepts. Vocabulary
- Examples
- Practice in class
- Assignment
8th Week: Writing and documenting skills - Theory and practice
- Structure
- Synthesis
- Writing style
- Documentation
- Plagiarism
- Citation styles. Types of citation
- Examples
- Practice in class
- Assignment-Discussion
9th Week: Originality - New knowledge production- Theory and practice
- Originality
- Research paper
- Review paper
- Examples
- Practice in class
10th Week: Skills - Evaluation of sources and writing annotations for the annotated bibliography
- Using annotated bibliography
- Using reviews
- Using reference managent tools
- Examples
- Practice in class
11th Week: Skills - Using Reference Management Tools
- Using the Reference Management Free Software Mendeley
- Examples
- Practice in class
12th Week: Ethics of information, academic integrity, plagiarism, etc.
- Intellectual property law (national, international). Technological and legal developments. Basic issues.
- Information ethics. Academic integrity
- Open Access content basic terms and concepts (e.g. Green Access vs Gold Access).
- Licenses (e.g. Creative Commons).
- Public domain.
- Other issues (e.g. fake news, deep fakes, hoaxes, privacy, etc.)
- Examples
- Practice in class
- Discussion
13th Week: Summing-up
Suggested Bibliography:
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Adler, E.S. and Clark, R., 2018. Κοινωνική έρευνα: μια ξενάγηση στις μεθόδους και τις τεχνικές. 5η έκδ. Μετάφραση από: Αριστείδης Χράπαλος. Θεσσαλονίκη: Εκδόσεις Τζιόλα.
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Lubart, T., 2018. The creative process: perspectives from multiple domains. [e-book] Pulgrave Macmillan. Διαθέσιμο από:<https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-50563-7>
- Pruzan, P., 2016. Research methodology: the aims, practices and ethics of science. [e-book] Switzerland: Springer. 10.1007/978-3-319-27167-5
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Umberto E., 2001. Πώς γίνεται μια διπλωματική εργασία. Αθήνα: Νήσος.
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Πολίτης, Α., 1998. Υποσημειώσεις και Παραπομπές. Ηράκλειο: Πανεπιστημιακές Εκδόσεις Κρήτης.
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Θρασύβουλος Μ., 1998. Δομή και Γραφή της Επιστημονικής Εργασίας. Αθήνα: Ελληνικά Γράμματα, 1998.
- Λιαργκόβας, Π., Δερμάτης, Ζ. και Κομνηνός, Δ., 2019. Μεθοδολογία της έρευνας και συγγραφή επιστημονικών εργασιών. Θεσσαλονίκη: Εκδόσεις Τζιόλα
Teaching Methods:
Duration: 3 hours
- Lecture
- PowerPoint presentation
- Posting lectures
- Posting home-assignments
- Posting links and bibliography for further study
- Posting exams-related material
- In-class practice
- Home-assignments
- Discussion
Evaluation Methods:
Students’ evaluation includes the following:
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- Mandatory assignments
- Final exams
- Final grade = 60% exams + 40% assignments
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