ENG11 B7 1. What is research?
* Research is an organized study in which it is a methodical investigation into a subject in order to discover facts, to establish or revise a theory or to develop a plan of action based on the facts discovered. Mrs. Rhodora Cortina, 2011-2012. * Research is a systematic process of collecting and analyzing information to increase our understanding of the phenomenon under study. * Research is
2. What are the types/kinds/classification of research?
Types of Research from the viewpoint of Application * Pure Research
According to Bailey (1978: 17): “Pure research involves developing and testing theories and hypotheses that are intellectually challenging to the researcher but may or may not have practical application at the present time or in the future. Thus such work often involves the testing of hypotheses containing very abstract and specialized concepts.”
Pure research is also concerned with the development, examination, verification, and refinement of research methods, procedures, techniques and tools that form the body of research methodology. * Applied Research
Most of the research in the social sciences is applied. In other words the research techniques, procedures, and methods that form the body of the research methodology are applied to the collection of information about the various aspects of a situation, issue, problem or phenomenon so that information gathered can be used in other ways- such as for policy formulation, administration and the enhancement of understanding of a phenomenon.
Types of Research from the viewpoint of Objectives * Descriptive Research
Attempts to describe systematically a situation, problem, phenomenon, service or program, or provides information about, say, the living conditions of a community, or describes attitudes towards an issue.
* Correlational Research
It is to discover or establish the existence of