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The difference between your role in the world as a student compared to that of a researcher is the relationship you have with knowledge. One is concerned with the acquisition of knowledge where the other is concerned with creating it. Although inextricably linked, the understanding of the role of each and how they are both necessary in research is a barrier that proved difficult at times to comprehend.(Jeffries)

Noted psychologist Graham Wallas (1926, p. 11), hoping to transform the processes of human thought and solve significant problems, wrote early last century that “We can to some degree control Illumination by making ourselves conscious (as many poets are conscious) of Intimation…”. Illumination is an important event in the act of creation within the context of novel problem solving. It is the stage in the process whereby a solution, or the means of finding the solution to a problem, becomes manifest in the …