(Reflection Paper)
The said forum was graced with two brilliant speakers who
hailed from prestigious universities and are recognized experts in the
field of research. They were Dr. Margaret Udarve-Alvarez and Dr.
Nelly Z. Limbadan. Dr. Alvarez is the current Research Director in the
Research and Publication Department of Silliman University,
Dumaguete City. The second speaker was Dr. Nelly Z. Limbadan,
Assistant Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences in Ateneo de
Davao University. She discussed on Quantitative and Qualitative
Research.
Another thing that I learned while listening to her was the value
of persistence and humility. She persisted and worked hard with
humility until she reached her ambitions in life. Rome was not built in
one night, and so it will take time for us to become experts. However,
if we start our first single step now in our thousand miles journey, we
could expect something bigger and brighter in the future.
She challenged the graduate school students especially those
who are enrolled in the PhD programs never to be afraid to publish
our work. Start small and eventually you will learn the trade of
research and publication. Submit papers to different journals. If our
paper is rejected, we should not stop there until it is published. Her
challenge motivated me personally to try publishing my work.