The subsequent portion of the article discloses the readiness of manuscripts for publication which included the delivery of data and article arrangement. Furthermore, Trusty (2011) acknowledged his target audience. He declared, “I assume readers will have some knowledge of research designs, statistical …show more content…
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Defining Research Parameters Firstly, Trusty (2011) defined the first duty of the researcher, to define the area to be researched. “There are two major parameters that require definition: (a) what will be researched and (b) who will be target population” (p. 261). The ‘what’ contained the variables to be examined and the models to be proven in the quantitative research paradigm; the ‘who’ is associated with concluding the framework of the community and participants to be examined. The author made known that researchers must become profoundly knowledgeable regarding the research area in order to connect the examination to the greater well-informed base. He also disclosed that the literature review identified the ‘who’ and the ‘what’ of the study. According to the article, no study can be absolutely flawless, no aspiring author sets out to include a major flaw in the design; minor imperfections and compromises are usually known by authors (Trusty, 2011, p. 262). It’s of high importance for the researcher to conduct a pilot study so that what is unknown may be known and flaws can be corrected before resources are used conducting the study (p. 261).
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The author focused on the specification of variables and specifications of paradigms to be examined. According to the article, specification involved naming variables to be used and how the variables were conceptualized, arranged, and treated (Trusty, 2011, p. 262). Furthermore, he discussed the importance of variable specification traversed all quantitative research designs (and also descriptive studies). Variable specification developed from theory and experimental research. Additionally, theories not only determined the significant variable but also made it likely for the study to contribute to the well-informed base. (Trusty, 2011, p.262). Lastly he mentioned that theories itemized the classification and organization of the variables in the design of the