Techniques
- Reading documents, searching for and retrieving them, filing them, taking notes from them.
- Contacting people, recording contacts
Perhaps this is the how of the research
Methods
Procedures for collecting and analysing data – like what you are going to do to get the data
Methodology
Strategy, and design behind choice of methods to reach outcome – like why are you doing it this way
Crotty, M. (1998) 'Introduction: the research process'. The foundations of social research: meaning and perspective in the research process, Sage, London. 816
See Crotty (1998) in the ‘Introduction’ to his book, The Foundations of Social Research: Meaning and Perspective in the Research Process
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