Wednesday, 19 October 2016

Research + epistemonology part 1

Research practice and learning is never ending and is a cycle we have to go through when approaching subjects to research.

Two types of research include the following:

Primary Research: Researching and gathering your own data.
Secondary Research: Gathering and researching Existing data.

The research can either be quantitative or qualitative data. and can be gathered from a variety of different sources.

"Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing" which happens everywhere around the world.

We then need to take this research and put it into practice, the practice involves checking the data and putting it against the theory/question being placed, this process will most likely fail and fail which is good as it will give you a better understanding of what works with the data. "In order to succeed,  you must fail" this helps with finding the solution to the problem.

Data/information can be obtained from anywhere and could be just opinion, which needs to be analysed, is it good enough to generate knowledge that is relevant to the research, Does the author know what they are talking about.

From practice, we then learn and evaluate what could have gotten better and what should be done next time when researching a similar subject.

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