research

Research at three levels of rigor, and the level gets named before any reading starts. Fires whenever a reply is about to cite a page from the web, which means storing the page and citing the stored copy instead of pasting a link. Fires when somebody wants one question looked up and answered from a few sources. Fires when material is being collected to feed analysis or a formal report, where the run hands over an audit trail a stranger can follow: one fact per row in your own words, the document behind each one, what each document is weak at, and a log of everything opened including the dead ends. Not for weighing options, scoring them, or committing to a course, and not for writing the report.