The current work provides a reflective analysis of the research design and effective concept-building topics. Several articles were analyzed in order to enhance a deeper understanding of the issue under consideration. The relevant materials include theoretical concerns about the content and concepts of the research and the practical frameworks to analyze the practical scientific experience. Thus, the main conclusion made thanks to the analysis is that research design and concept-building processes are contextual. Their formation varies in accordance with the semantic fields, types of research, and research goals.
Designing research, concepts, or arguments, it is essential to remember that language is one of the most critical instruments that must be adjusted to present the research design efficiently. Thus, Gerring (1999) believes that the excellent research concept should coincide with eight criteria: familiarity, resonance, parsimony, coherence, differentiation, depth, theoretical, and field unity. This approach addresses the idea that scientists should use appropriate language for their research field. Thus, the contextual nature of the research and concept building is described through the relevant language and terminological base usage. The paper is highly terminological and provides various outstanding scientists’ perspectives about the concept formation regarding its contextual nature.
Addressing the context of the research, unique methods of analysis should be applied. Scientists believe that content analysis is concerned with the study’s intentions, consequences, and context (Elo & Kyngas, 2008). The purpose of the study determines the scientific field and the limitations of the content analysis necessary for a successful and scientifically correct research design. The article also provides an in-depth analysis of the types of content analysis and states its importance for nursing research (Elo & Kyngas, 2008). The medical field research and concept formation are conditioned by relevant peer-reviewed data and previous scientific sources’ exploration. The content analysis allows identifying key terms and concepts that can be used to make research recognizable among the scientific audience. Thus, the research design requires choosing the methods and analysis approaches considering specific peculiarities of the research field, in other words, its context.
Discussing the context-oriented nature of the research and concept design, it is essential to analyze the developmental and conceptual frameworks. The first research example is correlated with the development of the concept of family resilience (Walsh, 2016). In order to define the context of the discussed theme, the author of the article provides theoretical correlations and cites scientific resources (Walsh, 2016). This process allows the reader to understand the research limitations and correlation. The knowledgeable audience accustomed to the mentioned resource will understand the research context easily. Moreover, the author also discusses the relevant approaches to family resilience research in order to emphasize the approaches’ similarities and differences.
The same context-defining scheme is used in the second analyzed research. A conceptual framework aiming to synthesize the maternal emotion control analysis first defines the term’s relevance in addressing previously-held scientific research. The author provides a critical analysis of the collected data only after the work context is established (Crandall et al., 2015). It is also essential to mention that both articles’ authors implement the terms and particular filed-limited language when making references to academic research. Thus, the gained results and experiment procedure should be presented after the research context is defined with the help of appropriate scholarly works and practical experiments.
Based on the analysis of the theoretical and practical papers, it is vital to emphasize that context is a crucial factor in successful research design and effective concept building. The semantic field and the relevance of a particular scientific area approach contribute to the efficient research design. The research and concept formation has a fixed structure that first includes defining the context, sharing the experimental results, and forming an argument based on peer-reviewed resources.
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Elo, S., & Kyngas, H. (2008). The qualitative content analysis process. JAN Research Methodology, 62(1), 107–115.
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Walsh, F. (2016). Family resilience: A developmental systems framework. European Journal of Developmental Psychology, 13(3), 1–12.