what is a research design
The research design refers to the overall strategy that you choose to integrate the different components of the study in a coherent and logical way, thereby, ensuring you will effectively address the research problem; it constitutes the blueprint for the collection, measurement, and analysis of data.
3.2 research design Burns and Grove (2003:195) define a research design as âa blueprint for conducting a study with maximum control over factors that may interfere with the validity of the findingsâ.