Ideas on Research Processes

¶ … Rudestam and Newton's wheel of research is very appropriate in the larger scheme of learning and understanding new knowledge. Since any valuable systematic approach to knowledge ultimately leads to wisdom, which in turn leads to new questions, that require new answers. Much like a wheel or a circle the revolutions are orbital in nature and any investigation along these lines will return to the point of origin which is mystery and curiosity. Fortunately, as you expressed there are no single best means of traversing this circular path.

Response

In responding to your personal choice for a premise, I applaud your decision making methods to reach your conclusions. I feel that solving local problems is very important and this approach makes the most sense in almost all cases in economic and effectiveness terms. Your comments on the three step dissertation process is clear and concise and you made your points with an understanding of the readings and general purposes of the research process. I also agree that a hands on approach is necessary for grasping at the most important significant results of the research process that present the challenges that lie before us in this academic journey towards higher learning.

Response 3

While Rudestam and Newton (2007) echoed your comments about the challenges and overwhelming amounts of research that contribute to a systematic dissertation approach that includes the premise, prospectus and proposal, it is more obvious to me how much effort must be expended to understand a relatively small portion of the totality of human knowledge. Your explanation of this systematic approach towards learning is clear and presents the ideas contained in the reading in a very understandable and approachable manner that summarizes the main points succinctly. I am interested in learning more about your dissertation subject as your journey continues.

Response 5

I appreciate the clarity and ease of understanding that is contained within the summation of the dissertation process. This preliminary knowledge, to me, provides the fundamental and basic framework on how to think, and simply not what to think. I think that is what you are hinting at in your writings as you describe the idea that systematic wisdom is a tool that can be applied to any subject regardless of its complex nature, and the three step dissertation process is simply being used to expose and highlight the knowledge that is contained in those subjects that create divisions of knowledge.

Response 6

By explaining the dissertation process in circular or round terms I strongly resonate with those arguments. The investigation of knowledge always provides the investigator with additional questions that spur on more answers, which in turn create even more questions. It appears to be a natural cycle of life, as the planet we live on is round and circular in nature as it travels in revolutions in oval patterns. Identifying with nature and the natural order of things, as you suggest is a fine way to develop new ideas about our nature and the world and environment around us.