1. The document provides instructions for students to complete a research fundamentals assignment involving summarizing chapters from a textbook, creating comparative charts and mind maps of key research concepts, and filling out a table comparing different research paradigms. 2. Students are asked to read about different epistemological and ontological research approaches, develop a comparative box contrasting different types of knowledge, and create a mind map defining concepts like paradigm and research strategy. 3. The final part of the assignment involves completing a chart comparing aspects of various research paradigms such as empiricism, rationalism, and feminism by exploring different sources and discussing their central topics and applications. Students are then asked to provide a self-assessment and