[11] PR1 - Nature of Inquiry and Research

• Rummaging - to make a thorough search
• Cohesive - exhibiting or producing cohesion
• Graphics - a picture, drawing, image used as a decoration
• Mind Map - diagram used to organize information usually
• Innovation - act or process of introducing new ideas or methods
• Inquiry - seeking for truth, information or knowledge; synonymous with word investigation
• Research derived etymologically from:

  • Re - again, a new or over again
  • Search - examine closely and carefully, to test and try, or to probe
• Research - careful, systematic, patient study and investigation in some field of knowledge, undertaken to establish facts or principles; systematic inquiry that entails the collection of data following suitable methodologies; applies systematic or scientific methods
• Research is to produce knowledge through inquiry and discovery
• Purpose of Research

  1. To inform action
  2. To prove or generate a theory
  3. To augment knowledge in a field or study
• Importance of Research in Daily Life

  • Describes what is happening around us
  • Explains why things happen in certain ways
  • Predicts what will happen
  • Helps us solve problems
  • Evaluates what happened in our lives