翻译研究方法ResearchProposal.pptVIP

11. Assessing Your Research Evaluation is a crucial part of the research process. Giving and receiving critical feedback is an essential part of life in an academic community. 11.1 Self-assessment Here is a checklist of the kinds of purely methodological issues you might want to assess in your own work: Research question / aim Is it clearly stated? Have you explained why this is a good question / an important or interesting aim? Other relevant research How well did you relate what you are doing to what others have done? Have you consulted the most relevant sources? Hypothesis Are you starting or concluding with a specific hypothesis? Did you make this clear? What kind of hypothesis is it? Why is it interesting / important? Is it well justified? Material Have you presented your empirical material clearly? Have you explained why you chose it? How relevant is it to your research question? Have you explained how you collected it? How representative is it? Relation between variables What kind of relation are you looking for? Do you think you have found any relation? Between what variables is the relation you have found? Is this clear to the reader? Theoretical model Have you explained why you chose a particular theoretical model or approach / a particular variant of that model? What about other possibilities? Did you explain why you rejected those? Have you adapted the model at all? Why? General concepts and categories Are they adequately defined? Are they justified against alternative concepts, categories and definitions? What kind of categories? What kind of classification? Have you been explicit enough in presenting these? Counter-evidence Have you considered any counter-evidence? Have you dealt with borderline cases adequately? Are there any counter-arguments? Are there any alternative explanations? Reliability Is the analysis reliable? Is it explicit enough to be replicable? Are the calculations accurate