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Research is defined as the systematic gathering and analysis of data to advance knowledge, involving the formulation of problems, hypotheses, and conclusions. Its objectives include gaining insights, accurately portraying characteristics, determining frequency, and testing causal relationships. Research can be classified in various ways, reflecting its diverse methodologies and purposes.

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Research is defined as the systematic gathering and analysis of data to advance knowledge, involving the formulation of problems, hypotheses, and conclusions. Its objectives include gaining insights, accurately portraying characteristics, determining frequency, and testing causal relationships. Research can be classified in various ways, reflecting its diverse methodologies and purposes.

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Research Methodology: An Introduction

Meaning Of Research
Research may be very broadly defined as systematic gathering of data and
information and its analysis for advancement of knowledge in any subject.
Research attempts to find answer intellectual and practical questions through
application of systematic methods. Webster's Collegiate Dictionary defines
research as "studious inquiry or examination; esp: investigation or experimentation
aimed at the discovery and interpretation of facts, revision of accepted theories or
laws in the light of new facts, or practical application of such new or revised
theories or laws". Some people consider research as a movement, a movement
from the known to the unknown.

It is actually a voyage of discovery. We all possess the vital instinct of


inquisitiveness for, when the unknown confronts us, we wonder and our
inquisitiveness makes us probe and attain full and fuller understanding of the
unknown. This inquisitiveness is the mother of all knowledge and the method,
which man employs for obtaining the knowledge of whatever the unknown, can be
termed as research.

Research is an academic activity and as such the term should be used in a technical
sense. According to Clifford Woody research comprises defining and redefining
problems, formulating hypothesis or suggested solutions; collecting, organizing
and evaluating data; making deductions and reaching conclusions; and at last
carefully testing the conclusions to determine whether they fit the formulating
hypothesis. D. Steiner and M. Stephenson in the Encyclopedia of Social Sciences
define research as "the manipulation of things, concepts or symbols for the purpose
of generalizing to extend, correct or verify knowledge, whether that knowledge
aids in construction of theory or in the practice of an art."
Research is, thus, an original contribution to the existing stock of knowledge
making for its advancement. It is the pursuit of truth with the help of study,
observation, comparison and experiment. In short, the search for knowledge
through objective and systematic method of finding solution to a problem is
research. The systematic approach concerning generalization and the formulation
of a theory is also research. As such the term 'research refers to the systematic
method consisting of enunciating the problem, formulating a hypothesis, collecting

the facts or data, analyzing the facts and reaching certain conclusions either in the
form of solutions(s) towards the concerned problem or in certain generalizations
for some theoretical formulation.

Objectives Of Research:
The purpose of research is to discover answers to questions through the application
of scientific procedures. The main aim of research is to find out the truth which is
hidden and which has not been discovered as yet. Though each research study has
its own specific purpose, we may think of research objectives as falling into a
number of following broad groupings:
1. To gain familiarity with a phenomenon or to achieve new insights into it
(studies with this object in view are termed as exploratory or formulative
research studies):

2. To portray accurately the characteristics of a particular individual, situation


or a group(studies with this object in view are known as descriptive research
studies):
3. To determine the frequency with which something occurs or with which it is
associated with something else (studies with this object in view are known
as diagnostic research studies):
4. To test a hypothesis of a causal relationship between variables (such studies
are known as hypothesis-testing research studies).
Types of research
Types of research can be classified in many different ways. some major ways of
classifying research include the following.

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