This document discusses several key aspects of starting the research process: 1. It identifies four important elements to distinguish when conducting research: people, problems, programs, and phenomena. 2. It notes that deaf people need to see numbers being called during bingo due to their socio-cultural orientation being more visual. 3. It references two sources on social research methodology, highlighting that the world is vague and indefinite, and phenomena will necessarily exceed our capacity to understand them fully.