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Week 5
Week 5
Salman Iqbal
WEEK 5
Class Agenda
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Basic concepts
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QUIZ Hypotheses and Class graded activities
variables
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Class Exercises
Dr. Salman Iqbal
recap?
What is Research?
• Research is to
– Discover new ?
– Seek answers to questions
• Basic research
– Often driven by curiosity for fundamental/general knowledge/understanding
– High impact examples: relativity theory, DNA, …
• Applied research
– Driven by practical needs
– High impact examples: computers, transistors, vaccinations, …
Model to Generate Critical Thinking
Description
Who? Where?
When?
How?
What?
Analysis
Topic
Why?
What next?
Identify key
variables
Critical writing
Conceptual
model
Database online searching
Dr. Salman Iqbal
Exercises