Comprehensive check

Task 1. Answer the questions.

1. What does scientific research involve?

2. What ways of knowing or understanding did you learn from the text?

3. What are the main differences between inductive and deductive approaches to research?

4. What types of knowledge that research contributed to science do you know?

5. Put the following steps in the research process into the traditional order. Can these steps overlap or occur in a different order?

Task 2. Match the synonyms.

analyze involve interpret persuade concern intervene observe intend

purpose convince decompose invent include insist explicate relate watch interfere

Task 3. Give the Russian equivalent to the following word combinations. Use them in the sentences of your own.

1. ways of knowing or understanding;

2. to conduct a main study;

3. the heart of the research;

4. deductive methods;

5. to accept arguments;

6. prediction research;

7. to support evidence;

8. to find out a problem;

9. to predict consequences.

Task 4. Match the words to their definitions.

acquire research consequence principle hypothesize inquiry to analyze interpret phenomenon

the detailed study of something in order to discover new facts, especially in a university or scientific institution; a question intended to get information about someone or something; to study or examine something in detail in order to understand or explain it; to explain the meaning of something; the study and knowledge of the physical world and its behaviour that is based on experiments and facts that can be proved, and is organized into a system; an event or situation that can be seen to happen or exist; to suggest a possible explanation for something based on the information you have, but without knowing whether the explanation is really true; to get new knowledge or a new skill by learning it; a result or effect of something; a basic belief, theory, or rule that has a major influence on the way in which something is done.

Task 5. Fill in the prepositions where it’s necessary. Some prepositions should be used more than once.

In, to, on, at, for, out, of, from

1. Research is different … (1) other ways of knowing.

2. Research involves … (2) inductive and deductive methods.

3. One thing that we have to pay attention … (3) research.

4. How we really want to find … (4), how we build arguments about ideas and concepts.

5. Research contributed … (5) science four types of knowledge.

6. The descriptive function of research relies … (6) instrumentation … (7) measurement and observations.

7. Prediction research is intended to predict a phenomenon that will occur … (8) time Y from information … (9) an earlier time X.

8. Prepare a research proposal: a research proposal usually consists … (10) the sections including introductory, literature review, research design, research.

9. These five stages may overlap or occur … (11) a different order depending the nature of the study.

10. One thing that we have to pay attention … (12) research is that the heart of the research is not on satistics, but the thinking behind the research.