...getting the information (collecting), boiling it down (reducing), organizing it in various ways to help you to see patterns and relationships (displaying), deciding what you have got (drawing conclusions), and satisfying yourself and others that you have found what you think you have (verifying).
The entire process involves repetitive loops: what you learn in one stage may send you on to the next stage or back to an earlier stage.
Source: Doing Your Own Research by Eileen Kane & Mary O'Reilly-de Brun, 2001.
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