Research and its importance/purpose?

Research and its importance/purpose?

Research is "creative and systematic work undertaken to increase the stock of knowledge, including knowledge of humans, culture and society, and the use of this stock of knowledge to devise new applications." It involves the collection, organization, and analysis of information to increase our understanding of a topic or issue. Research is work that involves studying something and trying to discover facts about it.

The different types of research help build creativity, leadership, reading, analysis, problem-solving, and cognitive abilities in a person. It is marked as an important tool for success for any business organization or firm. With the help of research, you can find new opportunities and methods to help you succeed in life.

What is purpose of Research ?

Research is basically done for two purposes: to understand the world around us or why things or process work the way they do and to understand the applications of these processes. In other words, either pure research is carried out or applied research is carried out.

Research has been defined in a number of different ways, and while there are similarities, there does not appear to be a single, all-encompassing definition that is embraced by all who engage in it. Research is considered to be a systematic and comprehensive process that involves studying about a particular topic or subject to gain in-depth knowledge regarding it. 

Original research, also called primary research, is research that is not exclusively based on a summary, review, or synthesis of earlier publications on the subject of research. This material is of a primary source character. The purpose of the original research is to produce new knowledge, rather than to present the existing knowledge in a new form (e.g., summarized or classified). 

The term Quality Research and quality evidence are related concepts that have been at the centre of much debate in academic, professional, and public policy circles.

The objective of Research?

• To gain familiarity with a phenomenon or to achieve new insights into it ( studies with this object in view are termed as exploratory or formulate research studies).
• To portray accurately the characteristics of a particular individual, situation or a group (studies with this object in view are known as descriptive research studies).
• To determine the frequency with which something occurs or with which it is associated with something else (Studies with this object in view are known as diagnostic research studies)
• To test a hypothesis of a causal relationship between variables ( such studies are known as hypothesis-testing research studies)

What is Motivation in Research? What makes people understand the research ? 

This is a question of fundamental importance. The possible motives for doing research may be either one or more of the following:

• Desire to get a research degree along with its consequential benefits:
• Desire to face the challenge in solving the unsolved problems, i.e. concern over practical problems initiates research.
• Desire to get the intellectual joy of doing some creative work.
• Desire to be of service to society.
• Desire to get respectability.

Generally, students are confused on various points, they used to ask various questions ? when they joined the research program in any university. We tried to clarify various questions of students. 

What is the difference between Qualitative Research and Quantitative research?

Qualitative research is an inquiry process that enables in-depth knowledge of the problems and Quantitative research is a structured way of collecting data and analyzing it to draw conclusions.

What is the difference between Primary Research and Secondary  Research?

Primary research is designed to meet your unique and specific needs. 

Primary research is information gathered through self-conducted research methods, while secondary research is information gathered from previously conducted studies. Secondary research is usually where most research begins. Secondary research is worthwhile because it is generally more cost-effective than primary research and it provides a foundation for any project.

What is the difference between Pure Research and Applied Research?

Pure research involves developing and testing theories and hypothesis that are intellectually challenging to the researcher but may or may not have a practical application at the present time or in the future. Thus such work often involves the testing of hypotheses containing very abstract and specialised concepts.   

Applied research focuses on analyzing and solving real-life problems. This type refers to the study that helps solve practical problems using scientific methods.

To understand the characteristic of research design using research purpose here is a comparative analysis:

	Exploratory Research	Descriptive Research	Explanatory Research
Research approach used	Unstructured	Structured	Highly structured
Research conducted through	Asking research questions	Asking research questions	By using research hypotheses.
When is it conducted?	Early stages of decision making	Later stages of decision making	Later stages of decision making

Exploratory research is conducted to explore a group of questions. The answers and analytics may not offer a final conclusion to the perceived problem. Descriptive studies are used to describe the behavior of a sample population. In a descriptive study, only one variable is required to conduct the study. Explanatory research or causal research is conducted to understand the impact of certain changes in existing standard procedures.