The desire to resolve problems through pragmatic observation, systematic evaluation, and coordinated action persists with each new generation of researchers. A timeless task that bears individual, social, and often cultural characteristics, problem resolution is essentially an experiential process. Routine and methodology can enhance both its proce

Chris O Andrew

Preface -- Introduction -- Foundations and Applied Research -- Creative Applied Research and You, the Researcher -- Theory and Applied Research: An Interactive Relationship -- Planning Applied Research -- Effects of Resource Availability on Applied Research -- Sources of Information for Initial Problem Specification -- Orientation and Focus of Projects: Researchable Problems, Hypotheses and Objectives1 -- Conducting Applied Research -- The Orientation to Observation -- Agricultural Research Based in Experimentation -- Behavioral Research Based in Interviews -- Data Utilization and Information Synthesis - What Does It All Mean? -- Applied Research Project Proposals