Bairagi Vinayak, Munot Mousami V. (Ed.) Research Methodology: A Practical and Scientific Approach

CRC Press, 2019. — 321 p.“Research” is no longer confined just to students and academics but is an important component for all professionals and promising experts (both offline and online) in every domain. Any investigation involving validation of facts, revealing intriguing results, and/or new actualities demands exhaustive research to ensure excellence. Research methodology includes a wide assortment of tools and techniques for systematic and effective research. This book, Research Methodology: A Practical and Scientific Approach, presents the essential fundamentals and directional pointers to researchers and postgraduates to enable them to initiate research, lay foundations, proceed methodically, and continue steadily. This recommended textbook contains precise reading material for both researchers and their research guides/supervisors. The editors of the book and the authors of each chapter have unanimously made a sincere attempt to provide a blend of technical and nontechnical language, test cases, and samples, in order to ensure easy reading and understanding. Starting in the first chapter with a brief introduction to research and research methodology, the book highlights other dimensions of research including surveys, problem formulations, research design, the importance of statistics, instrumentation, plagiarism, and intellectual property rights through numerous practical examples, tools, and Web sources. Various scientific methods and basic postulates are also detailed. This book will prove useful to all researchers irrespective of field. This book is also beneficial to students pursuing their postgraduate degrees and examinations.Preface
Contributors
Introduction to Research. Geetanjali V. Kale and J. Jayanth
Literature Survey and Problem Statement. Dr. Manoj S. Nagmode
Research Design. Prachi Joshi
Basic Instrumentation. Pradeep B. Mane and Shobha S. Nikam
Applied Statistics. Varsha K. Harpale and Vinayak K. Bairagi
Presenting and Publishing the Research Findings. Krishna Warhade, Vinayak K. Bairagi, and J. Jayanth
Plagiarism. Mousami V. Munot, Sesha S. Srinivasan, and Anand S. Bhosle
Intellectual Property Rights. Dipali Kasat, Rajeev Kumar, and Shailaja Patil
Index