ABSTRACT
Two delicate fields, practice and inquiry, constitute the field of research. The facilitated activities construed by the sequence recounts the experimental procedure in the laboratory. The activities of reasoning ‘launches’ the field of the object of study constituted by the experimental results. The instantiation of the exploration field is identified by implication activities. Apart from generalising from the depiction field to the exploration field, activities of reasoning also help interpret the experimental findings within the field of depiction. The activity of reasoning in the field of inquiry plays a significant role in linking the specific phenomena depicted in the experiment to the generalised scientific knowledge in the exploration field. Apart from the increased complexity in connecting activities, the grammatical realisations of implication activities also exhibit more complex grammatical patterns. Making explicit the unfolding of reasoning activities in the analysis allows us to reveal the interactions between the field of inquiry and the field of exploration.
