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Replication of previous discourse studies
Testing published results into the discourse structure of research article introductions to see whether they apply to articles written in the area of conservation biology and wildlife behaviour.
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Narrow and deep, listen to the experienced researchers, immerse yourself in reading everything possible about the topic, after reading, write about the topic and talk about the research.
What should a learner do in order to focus a research topic?
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The consistency of the results obtained in the project.
What is reliability?
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Combining research techniques
Eckert’s (2000) Linguistic Variation as Social Practice which mixes quantitative and qualitative analyses for the analysis of spoken discourse.
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It is important to strike the balance on the value of the question and the ability to develop the discourse analysis project is a key to having a well-designed and well-worked research project.
Why is it important to balance the value of the question and your ability to develop a DA project that you are capable of carrying out?
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The extent to which a piece of
research actually investigates what it says it will investigate.
What is validity?
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Analysing existing data from a discourse analysis perspective
Channell’s ( 1997 ) study of telephone conversations took already published data, a conversation purported to be between the Prince of Wales and Camilla Parker-Bowles, and analysed it to see in what way the speakers expressed love and desire, what the effect of the telephone was on their talk and what features of the conversation mark it as being the talk of two people who are in a close and intimate relationship.
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Because it is important to spend as much time as is needed to get the research questions right as research questions that are well-designed and well-worded are key to a good research project.
Why is it important to spend time in getting the research question (s) right?
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The extent to which the researchers were consistent in what they did and whether someone else would get the same results if they carried out the same analysis of the data.
What is Internal reliability?
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Make a table with keywords, and classify the information according to the table.
Example: Research question/ Data needed/Data collection/ Data analysis
What should be done in order to connect data collection and analysis with the research question?
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The extent to which another researcher could
reproduce the study, using the same discourse analysis procedures, and obtain the same or similar results to those obtained in the study.
What is external reliability or replicability?
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‘How far claims about cause are “true” in the situation being studied’
What is internal validity?
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