Practical Application #2 (Evaluation)

 Practical Application #2, or PA#2, is an exercise in Research Evaluation. For this activity, you are to do the following and compile a one-page MS Word Document:

1. Spacing on this document is 1.2, NOT 2.0, 1.2 

2. Heading for the paper is: Research Evaluation: What is it and my example? 

3. For this assignment, you are to access any version of Webster's Dictionary and copy two definitions: one definition for Research, and one definition for Evaluation. Post them to the start of your paper. Limit these to about 1/2 of the page. These definitions should be verbatim from the Webster's source you find. Use your discretion to limit the copied verbiage to NO MORE THEN 1/2 page. 

4. After your copied definitions of the words Research and Evaluation, and you review them, from these Webster definitions, write your OWN Definition. This MUST BE YOUR OWN version of what you have just researched. IN other words, the two words might be indicated as Research Evaluation, but in your own definition, what does Research+Evaluation mean to YOU. Not what I say, or Webster, or your book, or YouTube...but what do YOU SAY? This definition surely must be a composite of the two words meshed together into a single, definition---YOUR definition. 

5. Now, after you have consulted Webster, formed your own definition, give a concrete example of where Research Evaluation is applied in research, e.g., the military, community service, your own life, etc. You only need to give ONE EXAMPLE, but it needs to be a real example, not some theoretical axiom of the Ninth Order!