Delimitation

How it is used

Use for chosen scope boundaries. Their consequences may create limitations, which are not always beyond the researcher's control.

Example sentences

1. Restricting the study to public schools was a deliberate delimitation.

   The school type was chosen as part of the scope.

2. The reviewer asked us to explain the age delimitation in the proposal.

   The chosen age boundary needs a research rationale.

Common collocations

• study delimitation
• justify a delimitation

Related terms

• scopeThe range of topics, people, places or time periods that a study, article or thesis covers.
• limitationA weakness or restriction in a study's design, sample or methods that affects how far its findings can be generalized or trusted.

More terms: Argument and Hedging

• argument
• evidence
• hedging
• argue
• claim
• suggest
• to some extent
• counterargument
• stance
• it could be argued that
• acknowledge
• arguably