1. Inquiry, a term that is synonymous with the word ‘investigation,’ is the answer to this question.

When you inquire or investigate, you tend to ask questions to probe or examine something. You do this
kind of examination through your HOTS or higher-order thinking strategies of inferential, analytical,
critical, creative, and appreciative thinking to discover more understandable or meaningful things
beyond such object of your inquiry. Thinking this manner makes you ask open-ended questions to elicit
views, opinions, and beliefs of others in relation to your research. (Small 2012)

2. Research is a scientific, experimental, or inductive manner of thinking. Starting from particular to

more complex ideas, you execute varied thinking acts that range from lower-order to higher-order
thinking strategies reflected by these research activities: identifying the topic or problem, gathering
data, making theories, formulating hypotheses, analyzing data, and drawing conclusions. Cognitively
driven terms like empirical, logical, cyclical, analytical, critical, methodical, and replicable are the right
descriptive words to characterize research. These powerful modifiers that your previous research
subject, Practical Research 1, explained to a certain extent, are the very same terms to characterize any
quantitative research you intend to carry out this time. (Muijs 2011; Ransome 2012)

3. The data you work on in research do not come mainly from yourself but also from other sources of
knowledge like people, books, and artworks, among others. Hence, one cardinal principle in research is
to give acknowledgement to owners of all sources of knowledge involved in your research work. Giving
credit to people from whom you derived your data is your way of not only thanking the authors of their
contribution to the field, but also establishing the validity and reliability of the findings of your research
that ought to serve as instrument for world progress. (Muijs 2011; Ransome 2012)

4. One scholarly activity that greatly involves inquiry is research. Similar to inquiry that starts from what
you are ignorant about, research makes you learn something by means of a problem-solving technique.
Both inquiry and research encourage you to formulate questions to direct you to the exact information
you want to discover about the object of your curiosity. Your questions operate like a scrutiny of a
person’s attire to find out what are hidden between or among the compartments or folded parts of
his/her clothes. Although the core word for both inquiry and research is investigation or questioning,
they are not exactly the same in all aspects. Research includes more complex acts of investigation than
inquiry because the former follows a scientific procedure of discovering truths or meanings about
things in this world. (Goodwin 2014; Lapan 2012)