ABSTRACT
Students become involved in research very early in their courses, perhaps earlier than they realise. This chapter discusses:
• Methodology and research • Research design • Project design • Data generation, analysis, and presentation
Techniques are tools, and all tools are designed with purposes in mind. If you buy a chisel then do nothing more with it than scratch your name on the table-top to demonstrate its sharpness, you have missed the point. In the same way geographers armed with all the skills that a technique can provide will waste their time unless they also knows the right (and wrong) way to use it.
