Scientific Research Activities of Pupils in Latvia - Future Vision for Successful Studies in a University

Volodko, Inta; Čerņajeva, Sarmīte

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“…Typical of scientific research activity, "the solutions to the posed questions cannot be found solely by obtained knowledge and skillsnew knowledge must be learned" (Volodko & Čerņajeva, 2019), but not everything that is learned during the writing process, must be included in the final research paper. Thus, while writing the paper "Anorexia in Fiction: the Analysis of "Wintergirls" by L. H. Anderson" (SCPRR, 2017, SS), the author must learn what anorexia is and what are its typical features, but extensive analysis of the medical aspects of anorexia does not correspond to the chosen research field and should not be included in the work of literary studies.…”

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Typical Errors in Pupils’ Scientific Research Papers in Anglofone Literature Studies

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2022

Human, Technologies and Quality of Education, 2022

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While involved in scientific research activities, pupils get acquainted with the methods and structure of scientific research, thus acquiring skills necessary to handle and develop theoretical concepts, carry out empirical analysis, develop analytical and critical thinking and acquire new knowledge and skills. Expert-accessor analysis of the pupils’ papers presented between 2017–2022 in the national competition of research papers in foreign language and literature studies has allowed the detection of distinct categories of mistakes appearing in numerous papers that prevent even very talented pupils from achieving good results. Thus, the study aims to promote the understanding of both pupils and teachers supervising research papers of the most common mistakes that should be avoided while elaborating a research paper and stimulating the creation of more successful research papers in the future. The report provides a summary of data obtained by analysing 27 pupils’ research papers submitted in the Riga region and reviews of these works, identifying the most common types of errors and how they affect the results, as well as providing recommendations on how to eliminate such errors. The study concludes that the three most important groups of errors are related to an inappropriate selection of the research field, inability to formulate and prove the topicality and novelty of the research, and failure to balance, structure, and harmonize the research carried out in the theoretical and empirical parts of the paper. The obtained results indicate that it is necessary to educate further supervisors, pupils, researchers, and prospective teachers on how to avoid these mistakes to improve the quality of the research in the field of literary studies, so suggestions are provided at the end of the paper.

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Section: The Connection Between the Theoretical And Empirical Studiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Typical Errors in Pupils’ Scientific Research Papers in Anglofone Literature Studies

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2022

Human, Technologies and Quality of Education, 2022

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Scientific Research Activities of Pupils in Latvia - Future Vision for Successful Studies in a University

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Typical Errors in Pupils’ Scientific Research Papers in Anglofone Literature Studies

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