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Practical Research 2
Lesson 1: Introduction to Research

INQUIRY VS
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However, education is not just stocking
your brain with knowledge; it also encourages you to use acquired knowledge for a
deeper understanding of the world-an understanding that inspires you to create,
construct, or produce things for the betterment of your life and the rest of the world
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When you inquire or investigate, you tend to ask questions to probe or examine
something
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Thinking in this
manner makes you ask open-ended questions to elicit others’ views, opinions, and beliefs
about your research (Small et al
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Characteristics of Research
Research is a scientific, experimental, or inductive manner of thinking
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Cognitively driven terms like empirical, logical, cyclical, analytical, critical, methodical,
and replicable are the right descriptive words to characterize research
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These are not the only approaches that you can adhere to in planning your
research work
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Inquiry vis-à-vis Research
One scholarly activity that significantly involves inquiry is research
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Both inquiry and research encourage you to formulate questions to direct you to the
exact information you want to discover about the object of your curiosity
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Although the core word for both inquiry and research is investigation or questioning,
they are not exactly the same in all aspects
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, 2012; Goodwin,
2014)
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One word that reflects the
true nature of this type of research is numerical
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Thus, to give the basic
meaning of quantitative research, research is a way of making any phenomenon or
sensory experience clearer or more meaningful by gathering and examining facts and
information about such person, thing, place, or event that appeals to your senses

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