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holiday question 2: Why do we make researching into nouns?

Posted on December 23, 2013 by pat thomson

Every now and then I wonder why it is that we talk about research processes as things. Our research uses interviews, not we interview. Or we opt for surveys rather than we survey. Or there are focus groups, rather than … Continue reading →

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