1: What is research?
The unique characteristic of human mind is the curiosity to know about the universe. Innumerable questions arise in our mind about our environment, planet and the universe. Most ofthese questions starting with what, why, how and soon. For example, what are stars? , why day andnight alternate? How is rain formed and why the mode of life and activities of human beings varyfrom place to place? Whenever such questions arise we seek answer to them or we try to find out solutions to them. Seeking answers to questions and finding solutions to the problems have been the basis of human progress. A systematic search for an answer to a question or a solution to aproblem is called research.Actually research is simply the process of arriving as dependable solution to a problemthrough the planned and systematic collection, analysis and interpretation of a data. Research is themost important process for advancing knowledge for promoting progress and to enable man torelate more effectively to his environment to accomplish his purpose and to solve his conflicts.
Although it is not the only way, it is one of the most effective ways of solving problems. The term research consist of two words,’ Re’+ ’Search’. “Re” means again and again and “Search” means to find out something. The following is the process ;
