People may have various kinds of questions about research:
- What is the outcome of a research?
- What do we do with the result?
- Is there any benefit of doing research? etc.
~and many more
My simple and short answer: Research will add new knowledge to the existing body of knowledge (world of knowledge).
The figure below showed the research process as depicted by Orna and Stevens (1995) in Dawson (2005).
The diagram showed a representation of the existing world of knowledge. Doing research may make the researcher works within what is in the world of knowledge. As a result of the research process is a new discovery. The discovery should be something novel, never been disclosed before. The discovery will be disseminated to the world as a new knowledge. That new knowledge is an addenum to the the existing body of knowledge.
Do you see now, how a research can be useful? Do you understand now how the research can contribute to the existing body of knowledge?
As a researcher, you are an important person to add knowledge to the world of knowledge.
Let's do research !!!
Wassalam.
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