Tips for Pre-Oral and Final Defenses
1. Write a prayer that will best suit your intentions and purpose.
2. Make sure your research paper is well edited and printed.
3. Be ready to explain everything that appears in your research paper.
4. Get the meaning of unfamiliar and difficult words in your paper. Be sure you understand everything that you have included. Chances are, you will be made to explain important citations in your text.
5. Although you are not expected to memorize your book from cover-to cover, you are expected to know the many significant details about your study. Answers to specific details such as your problem at hand, your research design, research methodology, respondents, research instrument, sampling procedure, scoring of data, etc. should be within your fingertips.
6. Know your statistical computations and how they are interpreted. Your statistician will be able to assist you in this aspect.
7. Be cordial and respectful in answering the questions. Corteous language has always a place in intellectual exchanges.
8. The adviser and as well as the researchers may record the suggestions made by the panelists. A copy is given to you after your defense. Read the suggestions before you leave. Clarify suggestions which are somewhat ambiguous to you while the panelists are still intact. When they disperse you will have a hard time seeing them individually.
9. The time allowed for the revision of your manuscript based on the suggestions is usually two weeks at the most. Set your target for the revisions and do it in record time. Leaving your work to some other time is procrastination. When this sets in, you will not be able to finish your work as scheduled. Time is an important commodity which you should not waste.
10. You are advised to submit your revised and approved research proposal before undertaking data gathering.
11. Timeless and freshness of your data and findings are crucial factors. If you do not act on time, your research will be overtaken by events and everything will become obsolete without you even knowing it.
