Research Experience or Dancing with Ghosts

 

 I have been a university teacher for over 18 years. During this period, I studied abroad (in Japan) for 5 years and obtained my doctoral degree. While studying for a doctorate in Japan, I had the experience of reviewing some master's books.

  Later, while working at Myanmar universities, in 2016, I became a Visiting Professor at Vienna University in Austria. Therefore, both as a student and as a teacher at motherland and abroad, I had many teaching and learning experiences. From these experiences, I would like to share my experience of checking research papers.

  Before going to Japan, I thought I already knew about research. But when I got to the university in Japan, I realized that this assumption is not completely correct.  I realized that I didn't really know the research process there.

The reason why I said this was that students in foreign universities were quite critical in teaching and learning. In addition to this, there were creativity in doing research. As for me, I encountered some difficulties among these students right after I arrived in Japan. The main thing was that I didn't know how to speak or discuss. I knew the topics, but I didn't know what to talk about.

  When I was in Myanmar, if I could ask questions that others couldn't answer, I thought it was good. In fact, these questions and discussions were the topics that the person reading and teaching the Bible wants to talk about (or his proposed objectives), questions (Research Questions), Accepted concepts (Theory), I didn't notice that I didn't know the hypothesis. Simply put, it starts with discussions and questions that go beyond the presenter's research area. I have named this research field and framework as the character of research papers.

 Every methodological research book (or paper) has the research framework or idea of the research paper. However, if you copy and use other people's texts without knowing this fact, your paper will become a very uncomfortable writing. According to the data, it is consistent with your research, but it is not consistent with the research ideas, so it is often a very uncomfortable document to read.

I didn't know if I would write my research book with the imagination of these people. I had to study a lot to find out. I originally went to Japan to immediately attend a doctorate course. However, I realized that I did not yet have the research procedures and habits, so I decided to go back to another master's course for a year as a research student.

At that time, I had already obtained a master's degree in international relations from Yangon University. However, I started from another master's degree course and did it again. So, 6 years after my first master's degree, I got my second master's degree in 2008. From there, I went on to pursue a doctorate degree.

When I started my doctoral course, my supervisor appointed me as his teaching assistant, so I became a Teaching Assistant. Since then, I have had the opportunity to supervise and evaluate master's books in my spare time.

The first book I checked was a book written by a Vietnamese student. He had compiled a book on the difficulties faced by farmers in the agricultural sector in Vietnam. However, when I started looking through his book, I found that he had little personal effort and no personal research spirit. The book took a little of the letters written by others, This book was a bit small, and I found that he wrote very little of it himself. I saw that other people's imaginations are just a group of thoughts and ideas that didn't have his own style.

In the same way, the Master's degree books, I have checked many doctoral dissertations... and I am still checking them. However, most of the books are written with ideas written by others rather than writing with their own spirit. I would say dancing with the imagination. Other people's letters here and there, This is because there are a lot of words taken together in this one paragraph.

 In other words,  It should be said that there is no personal effort (Originality) and personal style. When I reviewed the letter I wrote in the honors class, I found that it was very weak in (Originality). Recently, good research has been found in Myanmar.

 In particular, writing a book is about researching one's own thoughts and ideas. personal findings, You have to write and present the information that you have searched for yourself in a way that you understand in your own style.

 To do this is to -

1) You need to know the research process.

2) Other people's research approaches. research methods, writing and presentation, It is necessary to study the information used in advance. Because of this need, studying research procedures, I have presented the need to search and read literature (literature review).

 

 Original Author- Dr-Sai Khaing Myo Htun

 Translated by A Y