RESEARCH LANGUAGE

LANGUAGE of RESEARCH

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Research is existing within the bound of science that is quite different from other subjects.

WHY???

...because of its inclination to special or abstract terms.

RESEARCH is likewise pregnant with extraordinary terms

because it has a language of its own

Research has its own organized system of language that...

• is used to communicate with your fellow researchers and with readers eager to know the findings of your research

Endowed with special knowledge; meaning, ideas that are applicable to a particular purpose.

Your expertise or special knowledge in research causes you to use

words, phrases, and other language structures.

For non-researchers:

• They purposely read books on research , the language of research appears to be a jargon.

• Jargon are terms considered as technical because these are commonly used only by people belonging to the same field of specialization.

Exclusively used by specific set of persons , like the engineers, doctors, lawyers, architects, or businessmen, among others. These terms do not sound understandable to ordinary persons in society (Shields and Rangarian, 2013; Trochim 2006).

CHARACTERISTICS OF THE

LANGUAGE OF RESEARCH

Research-Language Formation

1. Multi-Syllable Words

• Reflecting the inherent characteristics of research as a scientific method are made up of a number of syllable.

• Examples:

• Theoretical concepts

• Empirical-observable

• Probabilistic-numeral

2. Types and Forms of Questions

Research has its own types of questions

It has to ask questions that describe, show relationships, and give reasons behind the occurrence of some things.

3. Span of time covered by the research

-owing to the length of time- months or years- that takes place in a study.

• Cross-sectional study- involves a one-time collection of data in a span of a time.

• Longitudinal study- repeated collection of data for the purpose of finding out changes of patterns over time.

4. Variable Relationship

-a variable has effects on another variable, based on cause-effect relationships and on a certain pattern that may result in possible or negative relationship.

• INDEPENDENT VARIABLE- the cause of something

• DEPENDENT VARIABLE- bears the effects of the independent variable

• EXTRANEOUS VARIABLE- extra or unexpected variable cropping up outside the research design

• CONFOUNDING VARIABLE- unstable variable

5. FORMULATION OF HYPOTHESIS

-It signals the occurrence of a scientific or investigative way of doing things.

• NULL HYPOTHESIS - guessing negative result

  
  

• ALTERNATIVE HYPOTHESIS- positive result

6. Data

-These are facts, information, or logically derived forms of knowledge.

• QUALITATIVE DATA- are verbally and subjectively expressed

• QUANTITATIVE DATA - are numerically and objectively expressed

7. UNIT OF ANALYSIS

- Subject or object of your research study makes up one major entity and this may either be on the following:

• a. Individual, group, artefact (book, painting, travelogue)

• b. Geographical unit (municipality, province, country)

• c. Social interaction (husband-wife, teacher-learner, employer-employee)

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