A course ware document available on Academia Website [1] includes the short notes on research methods which were earlier published at slideshare, have been included in a courseware of on education in research methods.
Here is a sample short note titled "Descriptive survey research method: An ABC pattern poem and a word cloud" which goes as follows.
Word cloud
ABC pattern poem
A: Answers what, when, where, and how questions of a phenomenon or happening (but not why questions) through a survey study
B: Basis is to identify characteristics, contours, features, status, frequencies, trends, correlations, and categories or factors
C: Choice of the method is made when not much is known about a thing, topic, and problem or when it is an emergent situation, phenomenon or happening
D: Descriptive research design is based on information or data collected by survey questionnaire that describes a population and status of a situation or phenomenon.
E: Ensuring that the methodology and study plan is discussed among at least three experts for valid research and results
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