摘要:AbstractThis research was conducted to investigate the impact of indefinite expressions in the legal job definition of research assistants on their workload. The research group was limited to 286 research assistants from education faculties in 4 state universities in Ankara. The researcher developed and conducted the survey “Specifying the opinions of research assistants regarding their work” for that research group. This study is only composed of the responses to the following two questions: (1) If you think that you engage in plodding, please specify these Instances (open-ended question); and (2) How do you assess your process of research assistantship? (Multiple choice question)Responses to the open-ended question were organised under certain codes. Both the codes and the responses to the multiple choice question were evaluated using a frequency analysis. All of the results are presented below using the samples taken from the responses, in frequency and percentage tables. The findings are interpreted.