According to creswell the major steps in conducting research are as follows;
1 Identification of research problems
2 Literature review
3 Specifying the purpose of research
4 Determining specific research questions
5 Specification of a conceptual framework-usually a set of hypothesis
6 choice of a methodology[for data collection]
7 Data collection
8 Analyzing and interpreting the data
9 Reporting and evaluation of research
10 communicating the research finding and possibly,recommendations
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