What is a research?

Are you a researcher?

We do research every day for types of reasons. Think, we need to buy a shampoo. No matter who you are. Normally we carefully look at the TV commercials, search through the Internet or ask from your fiend and close ones. You compare the ingredients, prices and of course the benefits for your hair. At least you ask from the shopper about the best suitable brand for your shampoo. Look...! What you have done? You did a background study for your new purchase of shampoo. 

Simply we call it a Research.

Research is a process of inquiring series of answers for a given problem.

Here you have considered several factors before your purchase decisions. We are making our own decision or judgements based on the information we collected.  This information that we collected is help in the validity and reliability of the particular research topic. Finally, we can understand the question that we need to answer, find the influencing or impacting factors, present the findings and analyse them to have the answer.

The above findings of the shampoo have directly influenced your purchase decision. you have summerise and analyse them to have a perfect answer. See... your purchase decision of shampoo has become a dependent variable while all the other factors you considered have become the independent variable. After all these systematic process you will get to know what is the product you need to buy. 

Research process

 While research is a systematic process it has several steps to follow. All these steps are related to each step. We call them a "chapter".

Figure: research process