2. Look through the previous pages of this chapter and write down 20 or so research script events on separate slips of paper. Fold the slips and place them in a bowl or hat, shake, then withdraw them one at a time at random.

For each event, write down the event in the research methods script that immediately precedes it and the event that follows. Check your answers against the structural script presented in the five flow diagrams.

Compared with the serially ordered script generation task in Exercise 1, did you find it easier or more difficult to generate elements of the script when they were taken out of order?

Next, reflect on why it is important for the earlier event to precede the event drawn from the hat, and why it is important for the later event to follow.