Figure 6 Some distinctions between tool, technique, method and methodology.

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This cartoon is in three parts. In the first part, labelled ‘Technique’, there is a man, labelled ‘skill’ holding a hammer, which is labelled ‘tool’. In the second part, labelled ‘Method’, are a number of images of different tools, such as a hammer and a saw. In the third part, labelled ‘Methodology’, there is a person thinking, with a label ‘purpose’. They have in front of them a number of drawings (with a label of ‘adapt methods …’ and then there is a picture of three people sitting together, and the words ‘… to a situation’.

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