Begin your research journey Part-II

Elias Hossain
2 min readMay 2, 2020

To become a researcher you have to know some fundamental information at the beginning moment. Although it’s slightly tough to begin research work, however, once you understand the beginning, there will be no difficulty in the subsequent. In this article, I will discuss what is required to write a scientific manuscript and what you have to know.

Please see the prior article to grasp the fundamental of research.

Here you go: https://medium.com/@eliashossain9111/begin-your-research-journey-part-i-d6e5c6a589cf

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STEP 01: Be skilled in research tools “LaTex”. Although it’s quite tough to know accurately at the beginning level, however, once you know it properly, you will be able to write a consummate scientific paper.

STEP 02: Be experienced in (statistical tools) Data Analysis. R programming is one of the essential statistical programming languages favour by Data Scientist. Not only Data Scientist but also academics, researchers love it. Moreover, MS Excel also powerful so If you desire to use it then determine how to create a bibliography, citations, and references.

STEP 03: Make a hypothesis in order to prove your research question. Check out the previous article “Turn your innovation into research” I talked about how to make a hypothesis. Since producing a hypothesis, it has to be examined because if it proves to be inaccurate, a new hypothesis has to be executed. So it is crucial to be proficient in hypotheses.

STEP 04: Find out recent work based on your research topic so that you would understand what variety of literature beforehand accomplished. Click on the link below and find scientific paper:

https://scholar.google.com/

https://www.elsevier.com/solutions/scopus

https://www.mendeley.com/

STEP 05: The main idea needs to be summarized after reviewing the literature. On the other hand, exploring the gaps between previous studies can be an important aspect of comparing your research.

Fig.1: Fundamental research mind map

To conclude, this article explains the primary steps and crucial experience in order to begin research work. There can be various steps to begin a research journey, nevertheless, I would follow the 5 steps, therefore, following these steps will make the research journey easier. There can be a lot of trouble if you go ahead without following the procedure.

All the best for your research mission. Don’t get demotivated, don’t hopeless.

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Elias Hossain

I am a Software Engineer. My research interest is diverse, intelligent systems, and I am eager to learn more about them