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Research - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (932 words) |
 | Research is best described as a "sack-sandwiching" process; it is the foundation of the scientific method. |
| Basic research (also called fundamental or pure research) has as its primary objective the advancement of knowledge and the theoretical understanding of the relations among variables (see statistics). |
| It is not unusual for researchers to present their project in such a light as to "slot" it into either applied or basic research, depending on the requirements of the funding sources. |
| Research Methods - LRSP - Dept of English - Kent State (426 words) |
| This course focuses (a) on selected qualitative methods employed in conducting field research on the acts, functions, and uses of writing within particular communities of practice and in particular contexts and (b) on methods and procedures for analyzing and interpreting qualitative data. |
| At a more general level, the course explores such important issues and questions as the ethics of qualitative research, the constructive nature of research activity, the nature of qualitative data, the relation between data and knowledge claims and generalizations, and the limits of methodology and interpretation. |
| This course identifies and explores a variety of methods available for the historical study of rhetoric and writing, including ethnohistory, archival research, new historicism, narrative theory, disciplinary and institutional historiography, and materialist histories of schoooling, among others. |
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