8 types of research

Research: The systematic investigation into and study of materials and sources in order to establish facts and reach new conclusions.

-> It compromises creative work under taken to increase the stock knowledge, including knowledge of humans, culture and society

There are eight different types of research. - - - ->

Methodology - a system of methods used in a particular area of study or activity.

Methodology

1. Single subject

2. Correlation

3. Historical

4. Ethnographic

5. Action

6. Content Analysis

7. Survey

8. Casual Comparative.

Purpose of research

- Exploratory - Empirical

- Descriptive - Experimental

- Scientific - Explanatory

Why research?

~ It is a tool for building knowledge & efficient learning

~ able to identify/define a problem

~ prove lies to support truth

~ seize oppotunities

~ fastest and safest way to solve a problem

~ continuously question our practice

~ exercise and nourish the mind

Goals of research - to produce new knowledge or deepen understanding of a topic or an issue

Tools to help us to do our research :-

- encyclopedia - Library catalogues

- data bases - Google or other web search tools

Importance of a research

1. Study implications 7. Prove lies to support the truth

2. Build knowledge 8. Gauge opportunites

3. Efficient learning 9. Exercise the mind

4. Understand various issues 10. More fact corrobation

5. Aid to success 11. More facts

6. Larger frame of understanding 12. More viewpoints