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This chapter provides an overview of how social work research can be characterized and described, so the researcher will know where he or she is when engaged in various research endeavors. Research is characterized with regard to scope, general approach to measurement, and the purpose of the study. It is further described with regard to four processes you go through when you are conducting a research study. On completion of this chapter, the reader will know how to characterize research in these ways and identify key issues to address in each category. Readers continue their journey of learning by doing through exercises where they conceive of studies that might be undertaken with regard to both specific interventions and broad social work programs.