Planning to do research What role d

Planning to do research
What role does the research play in your plan of work?
Is the research going to provide a context to help you interpret sources (a text, original document, work of art or music)?
Is research to achieve a more authentic or meaningful creative outcome (e.g. a story set in historical period)?
Will the research be a mix of experiment and factual research to help you solve a problem, test a hypothesis or design something useful?
Is the research an end in itself so that the product will be a presentation of what you found out and how you did it?