Ayon kay Good (1963), ang pananaliksik ay isang maingat, kritikal, disiplinadong inquiry sa pamamagitan ng iba't ibang teknik at paraan batay sa kalikasan at kalagayan ng natukoy na suliranin tungo sa paglilinaw at/o resolusyon nito

Read the following passage. the early mill girls were of different ages. some were not over ten years old; a few were in middle life, but the majority were between the ages of sixteen and twenty-five. the very young girls were called "doffers." they "doffed," or took off, the full bobbins from the spinning frames, and replaced them with empty ones. based on the passage, early mill girls were mostly young. were mostly middle aged. were of a variety of ages. were mostly children.