Dear Jean,
Thanks for your note. I agree with you on the works by Manet,
Mallarme, Dos Passos, and Vertov. In different and unique ways, these
artifacts explain the concerns that shaped them. They arise from
inquiry. They report the inquiry from which they spring.
My challenge involved research reports. I posted the challenge as a
call for an example of a self-explanatory artifact that constitutes a
full and complete research report.
A research report must:
1. State the research problem,
2. Discuss knowledge in the field to date,
3. Discuss past attempts to examine or solve the problem,
4. Discuss methods and approach,
5. Compare possible alterative methods,
6. Discuss problems encountered in the research,
7. Explain how the researcher addresses those problems,
8. Explicitly contribute to the body of knowledge within the field,
9. State implications for future research.
Any artifact that does this constitutes a research report. The
examples you cite from Manet, Mallarme, Dos Passos, and Vertov are
not research reports.
My challenge only concerned those cases in which an artifact is
presented as a research report. The world has room for many others
kinds of reports as well. We need them all.
Best regards,
Ken
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Ken Friedman, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Leadership and Strategic Design
Department of Leadership and Organization
Norwegian School of Management
Visiting Professor
Advanced Research Institute
School of Art and Design
Staffordshire University
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