Chapter 1 Nature and Purpose of Research

What is RESEARCH? 

Webster’s Third Edition International

1993

Research - to search or investigate. - to search again or anew. • Oxford

Wordpower Dictionary 1994

Research - to study carefully and in detail. - a detailed and careful study of  something; to find out more information about it.

What is RESEARCH? 

Webster’s Third Edition International

1993

Research - to search or investigate. - to search again or anew. • Oxford

Wordpower Dictionary 1994

Research - to study carefully and in detail. - a detailed and careful study of  something; to find out more information about it.

Research is the systematic

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application of a family of methods that are employed to provide trustworthy information about problems. 

It must be reliable and practical for future use.

Research

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is defined as human activity based on intellectual application in the investigation of matter. The primary aim for applied research is discovering, interpreting, and the development of methods and systems for the advancement of human knowledge on a wide variety of   scientific matters of our world and the universe. “ Man cannot live without research”