Research
In this current developing world there are many sources of obtaining information to overcome your curiosity, but it is very essential to be cautious about their accuracy as most of them are unreliable sources which could lead people to misunderstandings. Thus we were advised to view journals as much as we can, because journals provide latest information which goes in parallel with the world's development, where as books shows us information which date backs about 2 years.
Hence it is very important to view authentic websites when reading journals, the gist of the today's class was how to identify authentic websites which provides us with journals which are accurate and true. Thus following
websites are authentic and provide accurate information which will help in research,
- Harvard Business Review
- IEEE
- Association for Comtrputing Machinery
- Springer Link
- Science Direct
- Emerald Insight
- My athens
It is very important that you run through the abstract before selecting a research paper.
Online Search
In online research the it uses the system called crawlers which is more like a spider, when we input the key words that needs to be viewed the system uses the "AND" operator, thus search will show all the pages and articles that includes the keywords that we entered.
for example when we enter apple fruit, the search will grasp the input as apple+fruit, hence the two key words will be apple and fruit therefore search ends up showing all the articles and pages which includes those two keywords.
Barriers of E-commerce in Sri Lanka
Using the above topic it was shown that a good research paper can be derived using the key points and the subject matter. We were given 3 types of graphs on the board regarding barriers of e-commerce in Sri Lanka and were told to write up the problem that we see in the 3 graphs. Following shows the authors answer,
Though the use of internet, payment capacity and language are high still the e0commerce graph is lower.
Following shows 10 important points that should be kept in mind when doing a research,
- Concept
- Problem analysis
- Problem statement
- Research question
- Literature survey
- Research methodology
- Data collection
- Data analysis
- Conclusion
- Recommendation
