GEOG 2260 Lecture : Lecture One
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Exploration: to investigate little-understood phenomena, to identify/discover important variables, to generate questions for further research, to explain why/forces created phenomenon, to identify why phenomenon is the way it is, to document and characterize phenomenon. Understand: to comprehend processes, interactions, phenomena and/or people. Prediction: to predict future outcomes, to test outcomes under different conditions. Evaluation: to asses the merits of something (often policy, means that we have some benchmarks or criteria to. A research question = a statement that identifies the phenomenon to be studied. There is one right way to do research. If you follow all the steps your data will deliver clear results. If you are proposing a service program, is the target. Research questions evolve" throughout the research process. Are not too broad or too narrow. Are relevant people should care about it! . Explain specifically what your study is about.