The document discusses various aspects of research methodology including defining the research problem, reviewing literature, and formulating hypotheses. It provides details on: 1) Defining the research problem involves identifying and selecting a problem and then precisely formulating it. 2) Reviewing literature helps gain background knowledge and identify relationships between concepts to form hypotheses. Literature is recorded systematically. 3) A hypothesis is a testable statement about the relationship between variables. It predicts the influence of independent variables on dependent variables.