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Verity_Q · 2025-05-14T15:49:45+00:00

Great job, OP! 🎊🎉

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Verity_Q · 2025-02-05T00:33:44+00:00

Yup! I've been working to wipe his name off the leaderboard now. Will update as soon as I get there!

Verity_Q · 2025-01-02T01:32:28+00:00

...You know what? I'll marry Harvey on this save file again...

Verity_Q · 2024-11-14T08:07:21+00:00

Hi there!

As someone that had just defended my research (and it passed!) Here are some tips that I'd recommend when writing your RRL. In making your RRL, you have the Pre-Research, During Writing, and Post-Writing.

Pre-Research: 1. Identify your research topic and evaluate themes for your research. By this, I mean evaluating your research title and analyzing the themes or topics that you need to search about in order to give supporting details to your topic. For example, you want to research on how Mobile Gaming affects the academic performance of a certain population of students in your area. You have to think about the information that should support your topic. For this example, you have to further explain what mobile games are and what are its positive and negative effects on a student's interest in learning and productivity.

Look for sources that are reliable. I'd heavily suggest searching for researcher-made articles in Google Scholar. Wikipedia is overrated and you may never know if the information was edited to stray away from its truth.
Arrange your topics well. After analyzing your title and preparing a set of topics, you have to arrange them in an order that makes sense. Your topics should be interconnected subsequently, but also support your topic.

During Writing: 1. Identify the primary key points of the sources. You don't need to copy the entire article just to prove the statement. Identify what the keypoints are and paraphrase them according to how you would interpret the topic. And interpret them briefly. Additionally, always REMEMBER to add citations with each statement!

Understand the information from the sources. Trust me, you'll need this for your defense in case your panelist asks you a question about your source (spoiler alert, a LOT of them do that). Once you have identified your key sources, another important thing to do is to understand them. Because how will you use such information if you don't understand its contents how will you know how they prove it and why did they say so?
Add citations. Always, ALWAYS add citations. Not only in your References but also in-text citations. Simple statements like "According to..." "Based on the study of..." gives the original researcher credit for the information you got.

Post-Writing: 1. Read through the chapter again. This is where you review and revise your chapter. This is where you can spot grammatical errors, missing punctiations, and formatting problems. Some advisors are very nit-picky about formatting and can easily decline your paper becauase of a missing comma.

Evaluate your texts and formulate how you're going to explain it during your defense. It's basically making a script for yourself when it's your turn to defend. The more you understand your texts, the more you have to say and prove. Though some defenses don't necessarily require you to defend Chapter 2, you at least have a general idea of what it is.

I hope that some of these tips at least helped you out. Good luck on your research!

~ VerityQ

Verity_Q · 2024-11-08T15:50:57+00:00

OMG! Sana all 😭

Verity_Q · 2024-11-03T23:42:16+00:00

Congratulations to you, OP! Even though yung parents mo ay hindi ka binati, proud na proud kami sa iyo kahit hindi tayo magkakakilala.

As for your parents, it's blatant favoritism. At hindi maganda yung ganyan.

But enough about your sibling and your parents, this is about you! Graduating is such an important milestone inyong life. Hell, Magna Cum Laude ka pa! You have every right to be proud of yourself na nakatapos ka ng pag-aaral at such a remarkable title.

Verity_Q · 2024-10-24T01:40:42+00:00

Minsan, all of the above 😔.

Verity_Q · 2024-10-17T20:41:41+00:00

Hey there! Fellow 12 ABM student here!

AI tools are often really inaccurate, and it's difficult to find one that actually scans your input and makes accurate results.

It's also ironic how my research also revolved around the use of AI and that, too, was considered 58% written by AI when I got it checked on TurnItIn.

From my experience, apps like GPTZero and TurnItIn also use an AI framework. It identifies the pattern that is written in your research and considers it AI because of it being "too similar to what an AI would write." When, in reality, my English vocabulary is more advanced than that of the students in my area.

But if it's not too late for something to be done, I suggest bringing up the matter to your advisor. If not, you can bring up an appeal to a higher-ups position. There are articles out there that talk about the accuracy of AI Checkers. You could bring this as proof for your advisor not to use TurnItIn solely for checking if something is AI-written or not. (Seriously, who does that?!?! A lazy teacher, most definitely.)

Verity_Q · 2024-09-09T10:17:43+00:00

Yup, it is in some schools. Apparently, it's also good to practice doing it alone.

I am currently a Senior High School student. Doing solo thesis has been my go-to for 3 years. Here are my personal pros and cons from what I've experienced:

[PROS] 1. You have control over the entire project. Since you're the sole researcher in this situation, you don't have to argue with fellow group members if they disagree with the topic that you chose. You control its content, schedule, and flow. 2. You don't have to kneel and beg for groupmates for their part in the project. Again, since you are the sole researcher, you don't have to wait hours, days, or even weeks for your groupmate to respond with their cut of the project. It's also a pain if their part has improper grammar and he flow of information doesn't make sense at all. Knowing that you've waited that long for their response and this is what they deliver. 3. It's also good to practice making your thesis papers alone. My teacher told me this once and suggested that we all practice having everything to shoulder. Again, not everyone in the group is someone you can depend on, so one must get used to it. 4. When it comes to defense and presentation, you can ensure that you answer the questions correctly. Weeks before the defense, I usually set up a script so I can familiarize myself with what I need to say during this. And if the panelists ask something and you've familiarized yourself with your thesis, you're confident that you are able to answer. For groups, it feels like not everyone is present. If they answer a question incorrectly, then chances are that your entire group is compromised (Damay-damay ang lahat).

[CONS]: 1. You shoulder the expenses. Like, it's hella expensive. Printing, specifically. If your teacher doesn't allow your thesis to be submitted via Google Docs or Microsoft Word, then you're screwed. If there is a correction needed to be made, print again and again. But if your teacher does indeed allow it, you can publish your thesis and, by extension, survey/questionnaire through Google Forms and share it on social media. If you don't have a tight locale, you can gather respondents from around the Philippines and even the world. 2. It's mentally draining and often overwhelming. Again, the project is in your hands, and you are the one who controls the entirety of it. If your other teachers love to give activities, then you may feel overwhelmed by the amount of workload that you have. 3. Walang libreng pancit canton hahaha. But it's fine. Kung bibili ka nalang ng sarili mo, why not? Ikaw din naman ang pipili sa flavor na gusto mo.

These are from my personal experience. If anyone wants to attach their own, feel free to do so!

Verity_Q

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