Summary

Research methodologies play the most crucial role in every scientific research and decide a research will be successful or not. In my opinion, they help scientists not to go wrong ways in research, lead them to expected results, even discover new theories that they do not predict. Also, I am sure that professional scientists have always got good skills in research methodologies. That is why I think this course is very useful for students inexperienced or having little research experience. It is designed quite well to equips students for researching in Computer Science.

Firstly, professional identity and definition of researching in CS are presented in the first module. In next module, students can understand clearly how many processes there are when they start researching. They must find problem statement, purpose and their own research question and decide what is the research methodology that is appropriate to their research. Also, literature review should be considered carefully because it helps them know state-of-the-art of fields that they are focusing on. Students are divided into small groups and work on their expert group in third module and they present their finding of research methodology in fourth module. In final module, communication skills and qualities of research are introduced to let students know how important soft skills are.

I understand almost content of the course and some confusions which I have during the lectures are solved through three exercises that I present in the previous part. Furthermore, my professional identity is analyzed and described in the last section.

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