![]() According to Clifford Woody research comprises defining and redefining problems, formulating hypothesis or suggested solutions collecting, organising and evaluating data making deductions and reaching conclusions and at last carefully testing the conclusions to determine whether they fit the formulating hypothesis. Research is an academic activity and as such the term should be used in a technical sense. ![]() 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. 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. The Advanced Learner’s Dictionary of Current English lays down the meaning of research as “a careful investigation or inquiry specially through search for new facts in any branch of knowledge.”1 Redman and Mory define research as a “systematized effort to gain new knowledge.”2 Some people consider research as a movement, a movement from the known to the unknown. In fact, research is an art of scientific investigation. Once can also define research as a scientific and systematic search for pertinent information on a specific topic. ![]() Research Methodology: An Introduction MEANING OF RESEARCH Research in common parlance refers to a search for knowledge. ![]()
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