This is a systematic investigation and careful consideration of study regarding a particular concern or research problem using scientific methods. According to the American sociologist Earl Robert Babbie, “research is a systematic inquiry to describe, explain, predict, and control the observed phenomenon. It involves inductive and deductive methods.” Research is widely accepted as one of the means of increasing stock of knowledge in the universe. It involves collection, organizing, analyzing and interpreting of research data for the use of the researcher or third party.
