1. Research on a ‘Need to Know’ Basis
By
Tony Jolley .
17.10.04
TITLE: Everything I know I need to know.
INTRO: Showing the reader that I know what it is that I need to know
(even if I know I don’t yet know all I am going to have to know
to show I know it all)
LIT REV: What I know is known because others have got to know and
write about it so I could know. Academic concepts and theories
will help me not only to know but to analyse what I do not yet
know when I get to know it.
RESEARCH GAP: What I know I need to know (Title and A&O)
MINUS
What I know is known (Lit Rev)
EQUALS
What I know I don’t know
(….And I know I need to know what I know I don’t know in
order to know for sure that I will get to know all I know I need
to know.)
METHODOLOGY How I get to know what I now know I don’t know.
DATA PRESN. Showing I know now what I know I didn’t know before.
ANALAYSIS Knowing how to critically consider and appraise what I know
now from empirical research, in the context of what I now
know was known before I knew (it being in the literature).
CONCLUSIONS Knowing what to do with the knowledge of what I now know
was known before, coupled with what I know wasn’t known
before but now know.
APPXs What I know I know and I know the reader probably knows,
but to play safe I know I should give him the opportunity to
know if he knows he doesn’t know.
TUTOR ROLE Knowing tutors know they should know more than the student
knows (but perhaps knowing less about the subject than their
students would like to think they know), they know that their
task is not to know what is known, so much as to help the
student know how to use literature he doesn’t know, in order to
know what is already known, know what it is that he doesn’t
know and to know what to do about what he knows he doesn’t
know when he eventually knows it.
Know what I mean???