This thought process helps to provide a basis for construction of meaning. The Brooks stress the importance of students stating suppositions early in the planning process. The research team is speculating. Heeding their intuition and checking their previous experience or knowledge base, students list their best guesses, their hunches, their conjectures. These are shots in the dark.
Research then brings light to the subject.
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