RESEARCH

Research is an activity that aims to investigate a case or an issue with the aim of rectifying or
find something. Research is a logical and systematic search for new and useful information on a
particular topic (Lehmann 2010). Research can be defined as an effort to find the right answer to a
problem based on logic and supported by empirical facts. Can also be said that research is an activity
carried out systematically through the process of data collection, data processing, and draw conclusions
based on the data using specific methods and techniques (Dharma 2008).
Research is not only intended for technology and science only. There are vast areas in other
disciplines such as language, politics, history, sociology, humanity and much more. Research can be
divided into non-scientific research and scientific research. Scientific research is research that contains
the elements of a scientific or scholarly in its activities. Research is done with the help of study,
experiment, observation, analysis, comparison and reasoning
The purpose of research is to discover new facts, to verify and test important facts, to analyse an
event or process or phenomenon to identify the cause and effect relationship, to develop new scientific
tools, concepts and theories to solve and understand scientific and nonscientific problems, to find
solutions to scientific, nonscientific and social problems and to overcome or solve the problems
occurring in our every day life.
Practically, implementable solutions and suggestions are required for tackling new problems
that arise. Scientists have to undertake research on them and find their causes, solutions, explanations
and applications. Precisely, research assists us to understand nature and natural phenomena.
As a system, the study consists of various elements which are functionally interconnected. As a
system, the study has the following elements: 1. The problem 2. theories and scientific concepts 3. 4.
hypothetical variables (optional) 5. population, sample and sampling techniques 6. 7. Data instrument
data collector 8 . data analysis technique.
Research is an academic activity and as such the term should be used in a technical sense.
According to Clifford Woody research comprises defining and redefining problems, formulating
hypothesis or suggested solutions; collecting, organising and evaluating data; making deductions and
reaching conclusions; and at last carefully testing the conclusions to determine whether they fit the
formulating hypothesis (Kothari 2004).
What makes people to undertake research? This is a question of fundamental importance. The
possible motives for doing research may be either one or more of the following: 1. Desire to get a
research degree along with its consequential benefits; 2. Desire to face the challenge in solving the
unsolved problems, i.e., concern over practical problems initiates research; 3. Desire to get intellectual
joy of doing some creative work; 4. Desire to be of service to society; 5. Desire to get respectability
(Kothari 2004).

REFERENCES
Dharma, Surya. 2008. Pendekatan, Jenis, Dan Metode Penelitian Pendidikan. 1: 54.
Kothari, C. R. 2004. New Age International (P) Ltd Research Methodology: Methods & Techniques.
Lehmann, Hans. 2010. Research Methodology. Methods 68(3): 2351.
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