The Research process

The Research process

1. Step 1: Development of Research Problem

   • Step 2: Development of Research question
     • Refers to a question in which your research topic will answer and give more detailed information. The question should be relevant, specific and should be researchable. The question should also be meaningful (Ferrance, 67)
   • Refers to identifying an area of interest in which the research topic will be conducted on. This step also identifies what you want to find out and about what (Kumar, 23). The problem statement should be clear and understandable.
     • According to the case study, the research problem is the amount of cigarette’s use among male and female in grade 8-10 students of different ethnicity in South African schools.

2. Step 3: Relevant review of literature

   • Refers to the background information used to conduct the research study. Information included may be from the internet sources, academic engines such as Google scholar, proquest, Google books and so forth. This step assists the researcher in clarifying their ideas and develops research methodology. It may also assists in establishing the correlation between what the researcher wants to study and what have already been studied.

3. Step 5: Choice of methodology and method, sample

   • Choice of methodology refers to quantitative, qualitative and mixed methodology. Quantitative methodology refers to the collection of information in a form of numbers, qualitative methodology refers to the collection of information in a form on words and mixed methodology refers to collection information in a form of both words and numbers.
     • Choice of method refers to collection information either through interviewing, surveys or questionnaire.

4. Step 7: Discuss and report writing

   • The study reported that 23% of grade 8-10 students nationally smoked cigarette, South African adolescent and adults are smoking at similar rates points. The study also reported that Coloured students displayed the highest prevalence of current cigarette use greater than that of Black African students, also more males than females are current users of cigarette.

5. Step 6: Data analysis and interpretation