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A. Briefly describe your future steps in obtaining results of your investigation. Use the model below.

Model:

In an eбperiment to studв the effects of … upon …, аe shall find that/аhat … . We shall announce that this correlation shoаs that … .

B. Case Study: analyze the following descriptions of research results from PhD theses. Suppose you have performed your experiment, how will you describe the results of your research? What is your contribution to science?

Sample 1

Strategic Response to Predicted Events:

The Case of the Banning of CFCs

The thesis is centered around the question of how and why organizations and networks adapt to predictable, yet discontinuous, change in their environments. A variety of patterns of transmission and transformation reveal the differing location of the dynamics of change within the nets studied. Some relationships between the different schools of strategic thought have been found. In the thesis the role of different configurations of contexts and mechanisms provides an explanation of differences in the observed response outcomes of multiple industrial nets.

Sample 2

Boolean Network Simulation for

Exploring the Dynamics of Industrial Network

The simulation experiments trace the emergence of the overall exchange patterns for the network in a bottom-up manner as exchange processes organized and enacted locally unfold over time. The research offers a novel way of explaining the patterns of stability and change observed in real life industrial networks through the ability of networks to evolve endogenously a limited set of global dynamical structures, attractors. They emerge out of local processes of interaction between network elements and stabilize the system by defining the boundaries for the dynamics at the local level.

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Sample 3

Social Entrepreneurship and Innovation: A Case Study on International Awards

The findings show a strong connection between innovation and social entrepreneurship, a relationship that can be considered inherent to the concept of social entrepreneurship. The most common types of innovations among social entrepreneurs are found to be (1) the use and reuse of existing assets of marginalized groups, (2) the provision of tailor made service packages to the ones in need, (3) business model innovation. Social entrepreneurs can be labeled as creative imitators and constant innovators. These findings shed light on the topic of social entrepreneurship which, in spite of the interest demonstrated by scholars in the topic, is still in its infancy where research is concerned.

Sample 4

Development and Use of a Multi-color Tracer Technique to Investigate Colloid Facilitated Transport

through Unsaturated Vadose Zone Soil

A series of laboratory based rainfall simulation experiments were carried out on a four large intact soil cores. These experiments also showed that the colloidal and colloid-borne P could make a significant contribution to phosphorus losses from agricultural soils. These experiments showed that the colloidal and colloid-borne P could make a significant contribution to phosphorus losses from agricultural soils. The potential impact of phosphorous losses from diffuse sources through unsaturated vadose zone soils on ecological water quality may be considerably greater than previously thought.

Do you agree with these statements concerning research? Why?

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A

Use an appropriate word in the context:

1. … МКЧ ЛО tОstОН аТtС stКtТstТМКХ prШМОНurОs.

β. АСОЧ НОsТРЧТЧР ОбpОrТЦОЧts rОsОКrМСОrs МКrОПuХХв МШЧtrШХ … .

3. A scientific hypothesis is based on experiments and observations from

the past that cannot be explained with current ... .

4. TШ … ЦОКЧs tШ prШЯО tСКt sШЦОtСТЧР Тs truО Шr МШrrОМt.

1.Is the speed of a roller coaster influenced by the shape of the car?

2.How does the size of a motor affect speed?

CIdentify the given below statements as research question or hypothesis.

1.The relationship between innovation and slack is negatively moderated by organizational size.

2.Does temperature affect the height of a plant?

D Choose the correct answer.

1.A good hypothesis should always: o be easy to understand

o contain an independent variable o be testable

o all of the above

2.Quantitative studies focus on:

osurvey data

oword data

oface-to-face interviews

onumerical data

3.Which of the following is a form of field research?

osurvey

oface-to-face interview

odirect observation

oall of the above

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4. Descriptive or qualitative studies:

ofocus on numerical data rather than observations

ofocus on numerical data

ofocus on study descriptions

ofocus on the significance of observations made rather than numerical data

5.Which of the following is the best example of a hypothesis?

oConsuming fewer calories than your body uses will cause weight loss.

oOvereating causes weight gain.

oIf eating fewer calories causes weight loss and calorie consumption is lowered, then weight loss will occur.

oIf eating fewer calories than your body uses causes weight loss, then X will lose weight.

A software engineer wants to establish whether the new prototype software

(x) performs better than existing system (y) and hence whether it is worth developing further.

How do you assess your results?

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Module 3. Communicating Results

Unit 1. Scientific Writing

 АСКt ПТrst МШЦОs tШ ЦТЧН аСОЧ вШu СОКr tСО аШrНs “аrТtО”, “аrТtТЧР”?

 Are you an experienced writer/author?

 Have you got any works published?

 Can you associate the pictures (pic. 1, a d) with any types of scientific literature?

Pic. 1

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