ABSTRACT
This chapter is primarily about research activity, rather than content or application. Though the philosophical underpinnings of research may be understood via Ground-Ideas, actually carrying out research is multi-aspectual functioning involving every aspect in coherence with all others. The chapter discusses each aspect, not only describing research activity, but also offering it as a criterion with which to guide and evaluate research. It briefly discusses the 'obvious' aspectual functioning in research activity, but the focus is the non-obvious, hidden aspects of research. Before that, the chapter outlines an overall attitude and approach which has been found useful and introduces research as multi-aspectual functioning. "Listen, affirm, critique, enrich" is partly a technique and partly an attitude. Listening and affirming free us from antagonism, while critiquing and enriching free us from acquiescence, to engage fruitfully with different streams of thinking. The four elements are expressed as guidance.
