This Vee diagram, originally developed and refined by Bob Gowen and others at Cornell University serves an organizational device for looking at the student research process. The modified KanCRN version of this Vee breaks the research process into component steps which are useful in organizing students work during the school year. The KanCRN project has decided to use a modified form of the Vee diagram to conceptualize this research process. Actually research is continual and expanding. As one question is answered many more are generated.
Researchers depend upon previous work to expand the knowledge base on any research frontier.
A better representation of research might be a series of interconnected Vee's forming an upward spiral. Questions spurring research leading to conclusions which in turn lead to new questions or modifications of the original questions. These in turn lead to new conclusions and so on.