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LANGUAGE
OF
RESEARCH
•Jargon- terms considered as
technical because they are
commonly used only people
belonging to the same field of
specialization.
SPAN OF TIME COVERED BY
THE RESEARCH
• Cross-sectional study – involves a
one-time collection of data in a span
of time.
• Longitudinal study – repeated
collection of data for the purpose of
finding out changes of patterns over
time.
OPERATIONAL DEFINITION
• Making the concept or the thing meaningful by
specifying the way your research should
measure such concept.
• Defining the term based on its operation or
application in the research gives other
researchers the opportunity to evaluate the
measurement procedure and to repeat such
procedure in their own research studies.
GUIDELINES IN GIVING OPERATIONAL
DEFINITIONS