The working, generic model for research is a series of steps or stages, working forward from asking key questions, to reconceptualizing the next studies. Research is cyclical, cumulative, question-oriented, and creative. Next, we have to operationalize our questions. Say that we want to study what makes communication satisfying to people. Operationalization gets down to specifics, taking up crucial questions like what specific elements of communication will be studied, who will be studied, where, and so forth.
Research is methodological, self-correcting, and replicable.
Instead, communication research has the problem of constructing research using people. Research is methodological, replicable, and self-correcting. After the research is conducted, then we need to analyze what we found. Research is methodological, replicable, and self-correcting. At this point, the study has been conducted and the data analysis is complete.