ABSTRACT
In planning a study, a number of tasks tend to go on at the same time. These include the selection of the research problem, its definition and a review of the literature dealing with the area of interest within which the study is to be situated. It is clearly impossible to deal with all of these issues at the same time without getting hopelessly confused. In spite of the fact that they are really concurrent activities, we deal with them consecutively, beginning with selection and definition.
