Research
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WHAT IS RESEARCH? (MEANING)
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WHY RESEARCH IS CARRIED OUT? (PURPOSE)
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WHAT ARE THE TYPES OF RESEARCH?
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WHAT ARE THE OBJECTIVES OF RESEARCH?
o Research
can be defined as
Ø Search for
knowledge.
Ø A scientific
and systematic search for pertinent (something relevant to any subject)
information on a specific topic.
Ø Art of
scientific investigation.
Ø The Advanced
Learner’s Dictionary of Current English lays down the
Meaning of research as “a careful
investigation or inquiry especially through search for new facts in any branch
of knowledge.”
Ø Redman and
Mory define research as a “systematized effort to gain
New knowledge.”
Ø Some people
consider research as a movement, a movement from the known to the unknown.
Ø 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.
Ø D. Slesinger
and M. Stephenson in the Encyclopedia of Social Sciences define research as
“the manipulation of things, concepts or symbols for the purpose of generalize
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”
We also can say that it is research, it means RE + SEARCH
That means again search something to gain something new from the
old whatever is present. So we can say that research is a continuous process or
never ending process. Nothing is optimized, whatever present is search up to
that time only. It may be chance of modification in that by RESEARCH
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