mode of inquiry
collocation in Englishmeaningsofmodeandinquiry
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mode
noun
uk/məʊd/us/moʊd/
formal
a way of operating, living, ...
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inquiry
noun
uk/ɪnˈkwaɪə.ri/us/ˈɪŋ.kwɚ.i/
(the process of asking) ...
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(Definition ofmodeandinquiryfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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By the late nineteenth century, thismodeofinquirywas standard.
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A scrappiermodeofinquiry, following the potboiler, nonetheless yields a useful revelation about the artist and subject-formation.
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Children improvisatorially use music to transgress unfamiliar physical spaces; it figures their imaginative, communal, transitional and knowledge-seeking use of space to improvise musically may be a worthymodeofinquiry.
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Sarot's particularmodeofinquiryis to test ' models ' of the good life to see how well they would help one to cope with one's experience of evil and suffering.
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In this broadermodeofinquiry, his work pioneered the idea that behaviors depend on the social and physical context.
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Thismodeofinquiryblurs the borders between science and "ignorantia".
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In thismodeofinquiry, the rhetorical artifact is examined as a social response to a set of recurrent rhetorical exigencies rather than a collection of formal, generic elements.
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Furthermore, their inquiry explores whether traditional psychometric approaches or newer alternative perspectives and modes of inquiry, as suggested in recent measurement literature, are used by language testing researchers.
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If we are in fact in the midst of such a sea change, "postmodernism" becomes a convenient code for indicating that older modes of inquiry are inadequate.
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Postmodern modes of inquiry also raise challenging questions about the historical interpretation of the urban environment and its reform movements.
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Although, restoration ecology may be viewed as a sub-discipline of conservation biology, foundational differences do exist between the disciplines' approaches, focuses and modes of inquiry.
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Integrating different modes of inquiry for pre-service teachers.
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It ensures that students are exposed to a variety of areas of knowledge and modes of inquiry.
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