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• This page has an interesting, concise and relevant view on the nature of science, scientific enquiry and activity.
   
• This ‘overview’ page on ‘research basics’ will enable you to explore a range of issues associated with the nature and purpose of research.
   
• This useful, downloadable PDF provides a nice concise overview of the meaning and purpose of research, the research process and the differences between research methods and methodology.
   
• The “Guide to undergraduate dissertations in the social sciences” site produced by the Higher Education Academy and Sheffield Hallam University (UK) has a page relevant to this chapter that covers a range of issues and relating to basic questions about research.