RESEARCH METHODOLOGY

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LE801 3 0 0 3
Purpose
To identify communication problems and to conceptualise and design appropriate research
methods.
Unit-I
Literary Research Thesis
The use of the Research Library
Unit-II
Choice of the research problem – the hypothesis
Preparing the working Bibliography
Collection of materials – note making plagiarism
Unit-III
Planning the Thesis
Style and the Thesis audience- order, logic and mode – the rhetoric of the paragraph
Sentence and word
Unit-IV
Documenting sources – Parenthetical documentation – Author, Data system
Drafting the Thesis – use of questions – abbreviation - use of dictionaries and reference books –
revising - proof – reading.
Unit-V
Preparing the List of works Cited
The Format of the thesis
James Thorpe (ed) The Aims and Methods of Scholarship. ASRC
Books Recommended
F. W. Bateson. The Scholar Critics
George Watson. The Literary Thesis
James Thorpe (ed) The Aims and Methods of Scholarship. ASRC
Joseph Gibaldi and Walter S. Chtert. M.L.A.Handbook for writers of Research Papers.
Third edition. Indian rpt. Wiley Eastern 1989. Rinehart The Chicago manual of style:
Indian Reprint.