B-II.

Collect and record required information / data using a prescribed methodology from a prescribed source in which the information / data is clearly evident.

A lecturer or tutor prescribes the starting point of closed inquiries, setting the research question, project aim or overall purpose. Most of the discipline example 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.