🔵 🔴 🟡 Course description

This course aims to introduce students to the methods and techniques of scientific research. In particular, the aim of the course is for students to get to know and understand the basic principles and mechanisms of organizing a thematic material, converting information into a coherent text and presenting it. Upon successful completion of the course, students will be able to know and implement a project on the basis of techniques (title, text structure, fonts) and qualitative elements (collection and classification of information, text organization and writing methods, thematic peculiarities, ways and mechanisms of presentation). They will also be able to organize a research field by defining the framework, directions and stages to be followed to complete the work.

Upon successful completion of the courses, students will be able to:

Knowledge

• describe modern research methods

• indicate the key features of qualitative and quantitative methods

Skills

• design/prepare a scientific paper

• indexing their research material 

• conduct a literature search 

• construct questionnaires suitable for their research 

• correctly compile citations and references 

• manipulate quantitative data, using the SPSS program 

• structure/compose their work correctly 

Abilities

• clearly formulate research hypotheses

• ensure the validity and reliability of their research

• choose the appropriate scientific methods in the analysis of the data 

• apply qualitative, quantitative or mixed research methods

• apply epistemological and ethical principles to the research they conduct as well as to the writing of the paper they prepare

• evaluate the results of their work

• present the results of their work

🔵 🔴 🟡 Theory (2 hours)

1. "I investigate with method." Definitions and meaning of "research" and "methodology" concepts.
2. Topics. Search for items. Title suggestion/understanding. Work content. Explanation / understanding of reference framework.
3. The problem of sources of information. Written sources. Oral sources. Internet. Control procedures.
4. Steps to search, organize, and structure content.
5. Basic rules of writing: clarity. documentation, evaluation of information.
6. Basic rules of writing: argumentation, structure.
7. Work structure. Keywords. Abstract. Introduction. Main issue. Conclusions.
8. Text synthesis tools.
9. Evaluation. Comparison. Confrontation. Criticism. Definition. Description. Discussion. New evaluation. Documentation. Interpretation. Analysis.
10. Text explanation/completion tools. References. Bibliographic Citation Systems
11. Elements of complementary internal text structure. Photos. Maps. Paintings, etc.
12. Basic rules for organizing the text.
13. Presentation procedures and techniques. Powerpoint and its organization rules

🔵 🔴 🟡 Workshop (1 hour)

1. Examples of research concepts. Search for concepts in specific surveys.
2. Job title suggestion and search/explanation of special elements.
3. Search and check information on different sources.
4. Exercises for indexing and organizing material.
5. Writing exercises - presentation
6. Writing exercises – presentation
7. Text organization exercises
8. Text organization exercises
9. Exercises-presentation: documentation, analysis, interpretation.
10. Exercises in the types of references (systems, typology, usage)
11. Exercises for searching for supplementary elements and configuring annexes
12. Organize and present ppt.
13. Individual procedures for searching for topics

Review language: Greek

🔵 🔴 🟡 Evaluation method:

• 100% written assignment

• Topics: announced at the beginning of the semester

• Purpose of evaluation: To test the ability to compose a scientific paper in terms of its basic structural parts. 

• Evaluation criteria: The clarity of the working hypothesis and its correct (logical) composition, the critical approach/review of the relevant literature as well as the correct use of footnotes/references and bibliographic references

• Face-to-face and distance learning
• Use of PowerPoint and audio-visual examples (13 lectures)
• Support of the learning process through eClass with weekly provision of audiovisual material, links, photos, bibliography and related information (exhibitions, cultural institutions, etc.)

https://eclass.uop.gr/courses/4203/ 

🔵 🔴 🟡 Course Textbooks [Eudoxus]

• How is a scientific paper done?, Zafeiropoulos Kostas
• Research methods in practice, Remler Dahlia, Ryzin Gregg

Extra Bibliography

• International Journal of Social Research Methodology
• Journal of Mixed Methods Research
• Journal of Research Practice