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PHYS-631
Muhammad Aftab
Roll No. 16111710-001
M. Phil Physics (Weekend)
What is Research?
Outline:
Religious Perspective: Quran + Hadith
Meaning of Research
Definitions of Research
Quotes on Research
What Research Is Not
What Research Is
Tools of Research
Demands of Research
Purposes of Research
Conclusion
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Religious Perspective
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Meaning of Research
Research = re + search, means to
search again
A way of thinking
An intellectual activity
Nourishment & food to facts
Contribution to the stock of knowledge
Defining & redefining problems,
Quest for truth by scientific means
Investigation to gain new knowledge
New understanding of pre-existing facts
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Definitions of Research
Here are some definitions of research:
A careful investigation or inquiry specially
through search for new facts in any branch
of knowledge.
A systemized effort to gain new knowledge.
It is actually a voyage of discovery.
Systematic effort to gain new knowledge.
A movement from the known to the
unknown.
An attempt to discover, develop and verify
knowledge.
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Quotes on Research
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Quotes on Research
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Quotes on Research
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Quotes on Research
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What Research Is
Research:
always begins with a question/problems.
requires clear articulation of a goal.
requires a specific plan for proceeding .
is guided by the specific research problem,
question and hypothesis.
accepts certain critical assumptions.
is by its nature, cyclical or, more exactly,
helical.
requires the collection and interpretation of
data in an attempt to resolve the problem that
initiated the research.
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Tools of Research
The most important tools of
research are:
Intuition,
Revelation,
Informed guesses,
Facts from surrounding,
Reasoning by analogy,
Observation (the deep observation),
Logical manipulation of basic
assumptions,
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Demands of Research
The demands of a good research
from its researchers are:
Courage,
Determination,
Clear thinking,
Clear goal,
Focusing, clear focusing,
Pain for humanity & other
creatures.
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Purposes of Research
The purposes of research are:
to achieve new insights,
to portray the characteristics,
to discover answers of questions,
to get familiarity with phenomena,
to find out the hidden and undiscovered
truth,
to determine the occurrence of natural
phenomena,
to give the solutions of problems facing
the human being and other creatures.
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Conclusions
A successful and popular research is only
the one which benefits the humanity or
other creatures, the research which
hasnt this characteristic in it, is just the
wastage of time.
The researches which resolve or solve the
problems are everlasting and evergreen.
The purpose of research is to differentiate
the true and false, the good and wrong,
so that the process of learning may
continue.
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References:
Muqadma, Seerat-e-Rasool (SAWW)
by Dr. Tahir ul Qadri.
Research Methodology: Tools and
Techniques by Dr. Prahbat Pandey,
Bridge Centre, 2015
Research Methodology: methods and
techniques by C.R. Kathori, 2004
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