ENG DEFINITIONS | Q4

• How to expand a definition


  • Giving examples
  • Comparing and contrasting
  • Describing a process
• Listing and describing the parts

  Identifying smaller ideas to create concept
• Etymology


  Source of a word
• Examples or Anecdotes


  • Telling story, illustrating term
• Negation


  Concept is "NOT"
• Evoking the senses


  Pictures through senses
• Environment or sector


  How or where term is used
• Ramifications


  How term affects people
• Historical references


  Defined throughout history
• Quantitative

  • Testing theories and hypothesis
  • Analyzed through math and statistics
  • Expressed in numbers, graphs, and tables
  • Requires many respondents
• Qualitative


  • Exploring ideas and formulating hypothesis
  • Comparing, categorising
  • Expressed in words
  • Few respondents
• Technical definition of terms


  Explain terms how they are used in a specific field, dictionary
• Operational definition of terms


  The statement of procedures how the researcher is going to use a term