"Revision of an earlier book entitled Research Primer" by the author.-- Pref.

What is research? : What are the different kinds of research? -- What are the source of a problem? -- What are the characteristics of a good problem? -- What factor influence the selection of a problem ? -- How do you write the title of the investigation? -- What are the parts of research report? -- What are the subtopics found in chapter? -- How you can you make the problem specific? -- How do you state the problems of the study? -- What are the major types of research questions? -- What are the three levels of inquiry ? -- What is a hypothesis ? -- What are he function of the hypothesis? -- What are the characteristics of a good hypothesis? -- What are the types of hypothesis? What is an assumption? -- How do you show the significance of your study? -- Why do wee need to define some terms in our research? -- Conceptual definition? -- Operational or functional definition. -- What are the functions of theory? -- What are the functions of the review or related literature? -- How do you conduct the review of related literature ? -- Conceptual literature? -- Research literature -- What are the different sources of related literature? -- What are the different methods of research? -- Historical method -- Descriptive method -- Experimental method -- What are the internal and external validity? -- Respondents of the study and sampling techniques -- What are finite and infinite populations? -- What are the factors to consider in the selection of a population? -- What are the different sampling techniques ? -- What are the different probability samples? -- What are the different non probability sampling techniques? -- Source of data or tools of research -- What are the different kinds of data? -- What are the general criteria for research tools? -- The U-L index method -- What are the different tools or research techniques used in generating data ? -- What are the criteria of a good questionnaire? -- What are the kind of questionnaire? -- What are the advantages and disadvantage if an interview ? -- What are the different kinds of observation? -- What are the other measuring techniques? -- How is the semantic differential constructed ? -- The Q- techniques or Q-sort -- Other research -- Statistics tools for data analysis -- Quantitative and Qualitative analysis of data -- Inferential statistics -- Research writing : How is chapter v related to the chapter? -- What are some tips in writing the thesis report? -- What is the purpose in writing the research report? -- Language and style -- A term paper.