Due Date
A1
22 Oct
A2
5 Nov
A3
19 Nov
A4
26 Nov
Topic
Research
Questions and
Developing
Hypothesis
Literature
Review and
Academic
Sources
Research Design
Measurement
and Sampling
Historical and
Ethnographic
A5
3 Dec
Assignment
Find two articles from library sources that explicitly states its research question and hypotheses. For each article write:
1- Research question(s), research goals
2- Hypothesis and type of hypothesis
3- Variables (independent, dependent, intervening)
4- Result of research
-Find three examples of literature review that is explained in Knopf (Doing a Literature Review, 2006) article.
-Then analyze each type of literature review in accordance to the questions they should address (i.e. whether, or not,
they hold the qualities of a goof literature review). Consider the Knopf article and class discussions.
Design an experimental research, specify hypotheses, variables
Develop a hypothesis and demonstrate operationalization of variables
Group A (Gözde, Mohammed, İzzet, Beylem, Doğukan, Hossein)
Do the reading for Ethnographic approaches and answer following questions:
1- What does naturalistic and holistic mean?
2- What are the fundamental steps of ethnographic research?
3- Explain each of the data gathering techniques
What is participant observation?
What is the difference of structured interviews and open-ended interviews, discursive and semi-directed interviews?
Find from library an example of ethnographic methods and answer following questions:
1- What is the research question?
2- What are the hypothesis and independent and dependent variables?
3- What ethnographic data gathering technique is used?
4- What is the finding of the study?
Group B (Mohammed the K, Samir, Sophie, Hazar, Murat, Çağrı, Deniz)
Do the reading for Historical Analysis and answer following questions:
1- What are the differences between qualitative and quantitative historical analysis?
2- How can we decide source materials?
3- What are different sources? Explain?
Discourse and
Content
Analysis
4- What is selectivity? How can it be minimized?
Find from library an example of historical analysis and answer following questions:
5- What is the research question?
6- What are the hypothesis and independent and dependent variables?
7- What ethnographic data gathering technique is used?
8- What is the finding of the study?
All students: Do the readings for Discourse Analysis and Content Analysis to answer following questions:
1- Which theory is the basis of discourse analysis?
2- What prerequisite(s) the researchers need?
3- What are the fundamental steps in discourse analysis? Briefly explain each step.
4- What is content analysis?
5- What is the difference between discourse and content analysis?
6- What are the possible steps of a content analysis? Briefly explain each step.
Group A (Gözde, Mohammed, İzzet, Beylem, Doğukan, Hossein)
Read Articles A1 and B1
A6 and
A7
10 Dec
Group B (Mohammed the K, Samir, Sophie, Hazar, Murat, Çağrı, Deniz)
Read Articles A2 and B2
Answer following questions for respective articles:
1- What are the research questions? What are the hypotheses and independent and dependent variables? How are
they operationalized?
2- What is the level of analysis? How are the cases selected?
3- What is the data? How is it selected and accessed?
4- How did the researchers employ their analysis?
a) Whose discourse is analyzed?
b) What content is analyzed?
5- What is the finding of the study?
6- How did the researcher(s) address reliability and/or validity of their study?
A8
Process tracing
17 Dec
Extra
24 Dec