How to do research?

Research is a need in today’s world. You can only proceed in your career if you know how to research. Remember that research is not magic but can be learnt with practice and proper guidance. Let us drive you through the ups and downs of research and make it easy for you.

Research is usually focused on solving a problem addressing an issue or answering a question that can be done usually by following steps.

Topic Selection:

Depending on your interest you can select your topic of research:

• First, select the area where you want to do the research. For example, you want to research the respiratory system of human beings.
• Now narrow down your topic within the wide field that you have selected. For example, you want to further narrow down respiratory medicine and you want to work on obstructive diseases of respiratory medicine.
• Once you have selected your topic now select an amazing title for your research project. Let it be a unique name and should be optimized for search engines so that it can be cited for future studies.

Select Problem:

Now it’s time for selection of the problem that exists in your area of research.

• Note down what is the burning issue in the area where you want to do research.
• Give it a thought and ask yourself what you can do about.
• If you can do something about that problem then you should pursue it as a research problem elsewise search for another problem.

Search for what previously has been done:

After the first two steps, you should do some literature search.

• Go through the first three pages of search results that pop out when you enter your topic.
• Among those select those which are relevant to your study.
• Observe and examine carefully how they have conducted their research.
• Look for some unique angles that you can select for future research.

Select your methodology:

This is the step where you will think about how you are supposed to conduct your research.

• You will get some ideas from the literature review.
• After finding your unique pattern of study you have to think about what kind of study you will conduct.
• Whether it will be frequency-based research or you have to find something meaningful out of it. Like a co-relationship or relationship between two things.

Deducting results:

After considering your methodology and collecting data here is a step where you have to display results:

• Entering your data to SPSS software.
• Give different labels to your data so that comparing them becomes easy.
• Co-relate two different variables to find a relationship between them.

Discussion and comparison of your results:

After collecting results, you are supposed to do the following things.

• Compare your data with already present data around your area.
• First, compare local studies and then compare international studies so that your research becomes impactful.
• Discuss if there is a change in your results as compared to them. Tell the reader why there is a change in the data.

Conclusion and recommendation:

This is the last step of research. Here you conclude the research and give your recommendations based on your findings.

• Point out the strength of your study.
• Talk about the weakness of your study.
• Based on your results give your recommendation to future researchers.

These are steps and points that are very important to remember if you want to learn research and grow in it further. I am sure this is a ready-to-read blog and is self-explanatory. Following these steps will make your success journey easy in the field of research.