POLSCI 3N06 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Operational Definition, Face Validity, Theoretical Definition

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Political science 3n06 2013 lecture 5: designing a research design. Your literature review allows you to refine your research question literature review is not an annotated review it"s a research essay studying and writing about a topic you are interested. Next week in tutorial; talk more about it you do not answer your research question. Having developed a clear research question: your research proposal will ultimately contain one (or several) hypotheses. Answers that you will then test against the evidence. Different types of research questions often call for different types of hypotheses (see halperin and heath) Regardless, hypotheses usually state a relationship between two types of variables: independent is x it comes first. You know what you want to look at. You need to clearly define your variables: there are all kinds of meanings of definitions. A two-step process: conceptualization specifying what you mean by a given variable in words; what we exactly mean.

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