3. Visit with colleagues, professors, or researchers in your field to discuss the idea of research as a form of scripted knowledge. Informally interview the individual to discover elements of his or her research script. Ask the person to describe the activities a researcher goes through for one or more of the higher-level event sequences, such as data analysis or communication of findings. For instance, one might ask, “What have you found takes place during the data analysis phase of research? What do you do first, and what goals are you trying to accomplish?” Notice the extent to which there are commonalities across individuals in terms of the bigpicture dimensions of the script and how differences begin to emerge when it comes to specifying the individual elements that make up those major dimensions.