Rough Draft: Critical Analysis of Research Skills in Higher Education

This document presents a rough draft of an essay focusing on the development and importance of research skills in higher education. The introduction outlines the research idea, incorporating feedback from instructors. Supporting points discuss the necessity of research skills for students and relevant theories for acquiring them, with each paragraph featuring a clear topic sentence. Factual representations and logical arguments support the claims, highlighting the role of academic research in career progression. The essay also explores the utilization of research methodologies, such as in alternative medicine studies. It emphasizes persuasiveness through logic, credibility, and emotional resonance, addressing counter perspectives with critical analysis and credible sources. The conclusion summarizes main points, addresses research possibilities, and encourages audience discretion. The bibliography lists relevant sources used in the essay.

Running head: ASSIGNMENT 3 – ROUGH DRAFT
Assignment 3 – Rough Draft
Name of the Student
Name of the University
Author Note

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Introduction
The introduction was created as per the guidelines provided for the assignment. However,
as per the feedbacks provided for the student by the teachers for the assignment, the changes
have been kept in mind and further changes have been made accordingly. The final introduction
thus just not includes the idea for the research entirely by the student, but also has insights as
provided by the teachers.
Supporting points
In the first assignment, it has been described about why the students need relevant
research skills and what the relevant theories are by which the effective research skills are
acquired. Every paragraph in the assignment has relevant topic sentence that gives a clear idea
about what the topic of discussion is going to be next.
Supporting information
In every paragraph provided in the assignment, there are factual representations to
support the argument provided. The information provided in face of the factual representations
are logical as they represent the topic with finesse and provide clear and compelling idea about
each topic discussed. For example, in the first assignment where the topic discusses about the
importance of research for the student, every paragraph describes the different aspects of
academic research and how every aspects supports a student in progressing in their career
through research. The associated next assignment focuses on how these research methodologies
are utilized to find out the effect of alternative medicines in people. The topic paragraphs
produce examples related to the research that supports the relevant topic sentences.

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Rational description behind Persuasiveness
 Logic: The logic behind the proposed topics is supported by producing factual
examples and relevant information about the topic to prove the topics presented are
reasonable. The sources are cited well as per the proposed topics.
 Credibility: The topics presented in both the assignments prove that the relevant
information provided are credible and to the point. In addition, the sources referred
from different authors are ethically cited to prove that there is credibility of the
sources and information as described in the topic.
 Emotion: As per the topics discussed in both the assignments, it can be said that the
readers would be heavily influenced by the topic provided as it holds ethical citations and
sources provided by genuine authors. The problems described as the topic is relatable to the
readers and they would sympathize well with the situations discussed in the topic.
Counter Perspectives
 Evidence of counter perspective: The entire topic discusses about the relevant
sources as described by authors and also gives information about the sources by other
authors that present the counter perspective. Based on that, a critical analysis is
presented that clearly describes both the perspectives to the relevant topic, and how as
a different perspective things can be tallied.
 Important points left out in the counter perspective: As per individual discretion,
there are no points left out other than irrelevant topic in both the assignments. That is,
the sources that do not comply with the logic is opted out as a counter perspective.

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 Recent or credible sources: Both recent and credible sources have been used to
present the relevant as well as the counter arguments in the topic of discussion in case
of the two assignments.
Conclusion
In conclusion, it can be said that the thesis statement is presented in a new way as sources
describe. The main points have been summarized and applicable research possibilities are
addressed. The audience have been provided with a thought to enable their own discretion for the
topics which makes them have their own perspective about both the topics of discussion.

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Quinlan, C., Babin, B., Carr, J., & Griffin, M. (2019). Business research methods. South Western
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Takhar-Lail, A., & Ghorbani, A. (2015). Market Research Methodologies: Multi-Method and
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