ABSTRACT
This chapter suggests that a person's original contribution is the most important factor and should therefore be a central topic in research courses. If novice researchers found novice researchers disagreeing with one side of the logical conflict, they have probably already noticed some of the assumptions. To find original contributions novice researchers should know how to construct a conflict diagram for novice researchers’ chosen problems. Sometimes the simple act of making the assumptions of a discipline apparent is, in itself, an original contribution. Since the knowledge of a discipline is based on assumptions, novice researchers can extend this contribution by working out the repercussions that a false assumption has on the understanding of the discipline. Every assumption is a potential source of original contributions, because if the truth of any assumption is in doubt, it has repercussions in terms of the understanding of the entire discipline.
