What is Research?
by Leedy/Ormrod
"Data, events and observations are, and in and of themselves, only data, events and observations- nothing more. The significance of the data depends on how the researcher extracts meaning from them. In research, data uninterpreted by the human mind are worthless. They can never help us answer the questions we have posed."
This statement stood out to me the most in this entire reading. The earlier points about schoolchildren coming home and saying that they did "research" at school, yet research is a term that is loosely thrown around. This statement to me says the most about what research actually is. Research is not only investigating something, but it is also drawing your own conclusions and meanings behind the information that you have just found out. Research is analyzing, interpreting, and then posing new questions that would involve even more research. Research is a never-ending process; it is an endless cycle.
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