In a message dated 4/7/2008 5:27:04 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time, ritzman@gmail.com writes:
Would the phrase "all research is original" be a simple way of stating the above?>>
------------------- No. When I go to the library and read the newspaper I am not doing original research. I am doing source-based research. They are not the same thing.
Original research means I am *creating* the statements of fact, not that I'm looking them up in another source.
So "all research" is not "original" since people use the word "research" to cover looking things up in other sources.
Will Johnson
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