How important do you find using a research plan before starting a research report?

its very important to have a research plan before starting. a good search plan with the right key words would save big deal of time, efforts and energy

If one go with research plan before starting research report, only when that researcher can get targeted results. Otherwise every doing will result some garbage which you will be collecting and reporting, and after been long time researcher will come to conclude either with no result or no targeted values. Without research plan one will be wasting resources and expensive time.

First thing when we can start research in elctrical field our main focus is to extract these things for this report

safety,Advance features,good efficiency,perfection,low cost

It is a must and very important to have a research plan before preparing your research report, otherwise you go on loop and waste your time.

if you have a research plan in hand,

chapterisation of your research study topic.

having an hypothesis on your topic

planning about collection of your resources for the topic and understanding and narrowing down the concepts with respect to your topic.

step by step following the procedure as planned will lead ultimately good results in preparing your research report.