Experienced investigators may concede that if any original discovery
and learning take place, much of the effort may seem more crystal clear
after rather than before the fact. It is always easier in retrospect and
for the edification of subseguent readers to trace a discernible scientific
logic than it is in transit to work one's way out of a maze.  Recognition
that effective decisions on first steps must anticipate later ones at least
in part and that later decisions must fit earlier ones may only add to the
sense of unease in getting launched., That is especially for newcomers who
may not realize that making and reporting mid-stream adjustments, even cor-
rections, may be par for the course. In the established language of mathe-
matics, now embraced in many other fields, the thinking processes involved
in every stage of research are likely to be more heuristic than algorithmic.

Inguiry is incorporated in the title as a term more embracing than
research because the latter might connote a limitation only to specific
academic or scientific pursuits and methods. No such limitation is intended.
The dilemnas addressed in this presentation also arise for many policy and
position papers, for term papers, for staff studies, consulting projects and
a great variety of problem finding and problem solving activities especially
in the less traditional and pluralistic areas of inguiry that make up more
and more of the world's agenda today.

The generic problem of starting any kind of inguiry is interpreted as
broader than the term research might commonly imply. Also, the term inguiry
might, as intended, suggest the curiosity and conjecturing of the early stages
more than the procedural rigor of later ones. "That is granting that the
stages are not watertight which is part of the whole and essential understanding.

The sub-title is intended to communicate the "how to get started"

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