About the

class
Today’s Class
Syllabus
Class Pattern
Introduction
Evaluation

Reading

Note Taking
Anwesha Bandyopadhyay
Writing Style

Conclusion
XIM University

December 22, 2021

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 Table of Contents

1 About the class

About the Today’s Class
class
Today’s Class Syllabus
Syllabus
Class Pattern Class Pattern
Evaluation
Evaluation
Reading

Note Taking
2 Reading
Writing Style

Conclusion
3 Note Taking

4 Writing Style

5 Conclusion

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 What will we learn today?

About the
class
Today’s Class
Syllabus
Class Pattern
Evaluation • Introduction
Reading
• Reading skills
Note Taking
• Note taking skills
Writing Style

Conclusion

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 Course Structure

Course description: This paper will teach you basic tools to help with your
About the writing and reporting skills - both for academic as well as non-academic
class
Today’s Class
purposes, as well as data analysis.
Syllabus
Class Pattern
Course outline:
Evaluation
1 Total Credits: 4
Reading

Note Taking
2 Reading Skills: Teaching students to focus on the important parts of an
Writing Style article to understand it; literature search; literature review.
Conclusion 3 Writing Skills: Using MS Word.
• Note Taking: To plan and create a rough structure of the first draft.
• Writing Style: Use of appropriate writing format; academic as well as
non-academic writing style; footnote, end note.
• Referencing: Using referencing software; using google scholar for
referencing; bibliography.

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 Course Structure (contd.)

About the
class 4 Presentation Skills: Both preparation as well as presentation of MS
Today’s Class
Syllabus PowerPoint slides
Class Pattern
Evaluation 5 Data: A little bit of idea on data types.
Reading
6 LaTeX: Academic writing; beamer; introduction to BibTex
Note Taking

Writing Style
7 Data analytics and interpretation: Use of statistical software to
Conclusion
analyse and interpret data:
• STATA
• R: introductory

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 Class Structure

About the
class
Today’s Class
Syllabus • Lectures
Class Pattern
Evaluation
• Brief reviews
Reading

Note Taking
• Mid semester exam
Writing Style • Feedback session
Conclusion • Final Exam

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 Evaluation Pattern

About the
class
Today’s Class
Syllabus
Class Pattern
Evaluation Test Full marks Test Mode
Reading Mid semester Exam 50 Presentation
Note Taking
Final Exam 50 Written
Writing Style

Conclusion

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 Introduction

About the
class
Today’s Class
Syllabus • Why is reading so important?
Class Pattern
Evaluation • Learn about a topic of interest or a new topic.
Reading • For literature review.
Note Taking • Key to figure out research questions.
Writing Style • To prevent repetition.
Conclusion • Understanding concept and methodologies.

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 Searching for Research Topic

About the
class
Today’s Class
Syllabus
Class Pattern • Neither over researched nor under researched.
Evaluation

Reading • Try to figure out what areas you like and what are some of the things
Note Taking that you are keen on or curious for.
Writing Style
• Try to think of some topics as early as you can.
Conclusion

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 Searching for literature

About the • Google Scholar.

class
Today’s Class • In case of lack of exact matches, use synonyms of keywords.
Syllabus
Class Pattern • Check “Cited By” for more articles.
Evaluation

Reading • Alternatively, just google or use google scholar button (add from Chrome
Note Taking web store).
Writing Style
• You can also use other search engines.
Conclusion
• Ideally, sign in to Research Gate or Academia.edu.
• Popular paid digital libraries are JStor, Elsevier etc. Institution
membership.

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 Searching for literature (contd.)

About the
class
Today’s Class
Syllabus
Class Pattern
Evaluation

Reading

Note Taking

Writing Style

Conclusion

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 Searching for literature (contd.)

About the
class
Today’s Class
Syllabus
Class Pattern
Evaluation

Reading

Note Taking

Writing Style

Conclusion

• Check cross reference for more articles.

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 Literature Review

• Types of literature:
• Book
About the
class
• Book chapters
Today’s Class • Journal articles: published
Syllabus
Class Pattern • Working papers
Evaluation
• Conference papers
Reading • Unpublished papers
Note Taking • Government report
Writing Style • Newspaper articles: online or paper edition
Conclusion
• Too many articles can be overwhelming!
• Try to read as many as you can, given the time constraints.
• Read introduction, research question and conclusion of a paper to know if
it is suitable for your work or not.
• If it fits your work, read it thoroughly.

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 Literature Review (contd.)

• Focus on research methodology, data sources and results.

• Highlight the important parts.
About the
class • Digital highlighting is better. May use adobe reader.
Today’s Class
Syllabus
Class Pattern
• Print outs versus soft copies.
Evaluation
• Take notes.
Reading

Note Taking
• Immediately add this to your reference list.
Writing Style • In your dissertation/paper always make sure to include the latest articles.
Conclusion
• You may disregard some old articles, unless they are very important in
your research area.
• Organise your literature according to broad topic areas.
• Name each paper, say according to first author.
• Don’t delete articles you think you may not need.

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 Why note taking?

About the
class
Today’s Class
Syllabus • Organising your thoughts.
Class Pattern
Evaluation • Ideas from brainstorming sessions.
Reading
• Organising information collected during literature review.
Note Taking

Writing Style • Storing all the information so that you can always go back and check.
Conclusion • Helps you write the first draft.

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 Note Taking Apps

About the • One Note

class
Today’s Class
Syllabus
• Evernote
Class Pattern
Evaluation • Apple Notes
Reading
• Google Keep
Note Taking

Writing Style
OR
Conclusion • MS Word
• Dropbox Paper
• Google Docs

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 Note Taking Apps (contd.)

About the
class
Today’s Class
Syllabus
Class Pattern
• Note taking apps are stored in clouds.
Evaluation
• Free or partly free.
Reading

Note Taking • Google Docs and Dropbox Paper are collaborative in nature.
Writing Style
• Digital note taking versus pen and paper method.
Conclusion

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 Note Contents

About the
class
Today’s Class
Syllabus • Data sources
Class Pattern
Evaluation • Experiment designs
Reading
• Literature reviews.
Note Taking

Writing Style • Meeting notes

Conclusion
• An example would be:

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 Note Contents (contd.)

About the
class
Today’s Class
Name of Name of Dependent Independent Research
Syllabus
Results
Class Pattern
Evaluation
the paper the author Variable Variables Methodology
Reading

Note Taking

Writing Style

Conclusion

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 Different Forms of Writing
Dissertation
• Long, like a mini book.
About the
class
• Has distinct sections:
Today’s Class • Table of Contents
Syllabus
Class Pattern • Acknowledgement
Evaluation
• Abstract
Reading
• Introduction
Note Taking • Background (optional)
Writing Style • Literature Review
Conclusion • Theoretical Framework/model (if any)
• Data/Experiment design and procedure
• Results
• Conclusion
• Discussion/Policy implications (optional)
• References
• Appendix
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 Next Class

About the
class
Today’s Class
Syllabus
Class Pattern
Evaluation

Reading Writing style

Note Taking

Writing Style

Conclusion

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About the
class
Today’s Class
Syllabus
Class Pattern
Evaluation

Reading Thank you

Note Taking

Writing Style

Conclusion

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