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Often the good ideas and questions that beginning researchers wish to explore are influenced by extensive professional or personal experiences and well established views about the fields of study (Holbrook & Johnston, 1999). It is, therefore, important that subsequent educational research projects not only honour those views, to maintain motivation and interest, but also positions the views within a scholarly frame.
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Fitzallen, N., Brown, N. (2016). Turning Good Ideas into Quality Research. In: Fan, S., Fielding-Wells, J. (eds) What is Next in Educational Research?. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-524-1_1
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