Research involves gathering new data from primary or first-hand sources or using existing data for a new purpose. Teachers frequently assign a so-called research project that involves writing a paper dealing with the life of a prominent person. The students are expected to read so many of encyclopeadias, books, or periodical references and to synthesize the information in a written report. This is not research, for the data are not new. Merely recognizing or restating what is already known and has already been written, valuable as it may be as a learning experience, is not research. It adds nothing to what is known.
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