A-II.

Responds to questions or tasks required by and implicit in a closed inquiry.

A lecturer or tutor prescribes the starting point of closed inquiries, setting the research question, project aim or overall purpose. Most of the discipline-based examples in the table below would not typically be conceived as starting points of inquiry, but are appropriately thought of as such if a staged development of research skills is sought.

To see this staged development  of skills particular to embarking on inquiry work out in practice, look at examples from A1, though A2 & A3 to A4, by clicking on the navigation tool on the right.