Research and Dissertation Writing Workshop

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Welcome to my blog . 4th January, 2020 we had workshop on Research and Dissertation Writing. This workshop helps us in selecting our dissertation topic and how to write dissertation and what things will most important in dissertation. Our today's resource person were Dilip Barad sir and Ndoricimpa Clement sir. This workshop was helpful to us.

This are the objectives of  workshop :

👉Objective of the Workshop 

This workshop is intended to help us for Dissertation Writing. 

1. Understand what is involved in research 

2.Select an appropriate research topic 

3. Select and define a research problem. 

Select appropriate research method and design 

Organize and write a Dissertation and understand the style of argumentation 

1. Concept of Research. 

Research is an organized , scientific and systematic investigation of truth about a particular subject or about things no-one else knew(William, 2011). Research is also a scientific investigation to solve problems to test hypothess and develop new knowledge.  

👉Research is scientific 

Research is scientific because it use scientific method by making an interesting use of inductive- deductive reasoning. 

• Inductive- Deductive reasoning follows the process below 

1. Identification and clarification of the problem 

2. Developing hypothesis Inductively from observation. 

3. Charting is implications by deductions 

4. Practical and theoretical testing of the hypothesis 

5. Rejecting and redefining it in the light of the results. 

👉Research is systematic 

Research is systematic because is follows certain step that are logically connected. 

1. Understanding the nature of the problem to be studied and identifying the related areas of knowledge. 

2. Reviewing the  literature to understand how others have approached or dealt with the problems. 

3. Connecting Data in organized and control manner so as to arrive at valid decision.

4. Analyzing data appropriate to the problem 

5. Drawing conclusions and making generalization 

 2 . Selection of Topic 

It is recommended to select  a topic that is closely connected to your intellectual interests personal experiences and favourite research areas.

You have to answer the following questions before you undertake to do research. 

• Do have necessary skill to accomplish the study?
• Are research tools and participants accessible to complete this study?
• Am I financially capable to accomplish this work? Is the alloted time sufficient to finalize all the step for research?
• Do I have resources and documents necessary to obtain data?
• Is their availability  of professional in my research who are ready to advise and assist me in the course of research?

👉 Steps in the selection of Topic 

• Established your field and research work on it 
• Identify a practical problem or a Gap/deficiency in existing research 
• Define your proposed research and how it relates to the problem, gap or deficiency. 
• Consider and explain how your proposed research and its contributions to the field. 
• Structure a topic that is as informative and precise as possible. 

👉Characteristics of a  topic for research 

• A good topics should be:

Descriptive and informative: a good title  is well- constructed and concise so the each work carries meaning.  It informs readers about the variables you wants to examines and the adopted research methodology. 

3. Research Process 

• Define research problem.
• Formulate research objective/ questions hypothesis.
• Review concepts and theories and review previous feelings. 
• Research design including sampling techniques. 
• Collect Data. 
• Analyze data.
• Interpret and discuss the feelings. 
• Identify areas for further research. 

👉Defining Research Problem 

• A research problem is based on a question, curiosity, uncertainty, unresolved controversy in the mind of the research regarding some current issues. 

• for example why do some people in tribal communities prefer not to send their daughters to college? what do novelists, playwrights and poets say about it?
• A research problem is based on gap also existing knowledge. 
• There are different forms in which a research problem can be expressed to indicate the method of investigation. 
• One simple way to formulate a research problem is to take a question for example;
• Are school exam results a true test of student's intelligence?
• This question can be broken down into ; what constitutional intelligence?

👉Interpretation and discussion of the findings

• Interpretation and discussion the findings involve answering the research questions formulated for the study, explaining variations in the findings, comparing research findings to previous studies, explaining the findings on basis of some theories.
• Vocabulary often used these findings suggest that..this feelings concern with the finding in the study by x this feelings agree with the theory. 

4. Argumentation strategies in dissertation

• There are different argumentation strategies which can be employed in dissertation to convince other people that your conclusions have some validity, and that the new knowledge that have been created is soundly based.
• These argumentation strategies include referential strategies, predication strategies and legitimization strategies.

5.Writing a dissertation

👉 The structure of a dissertation

1️⃣Introduction

2️⃣Literature review

3️⃣Research methods/theoretical framework for literary studies.

4️⃣Interpretation and discussion of the findings

5️⃣Conclusion.

We have very confused about that how to write dissertation or how to select topic for dissertations. This workshop was much helpful to us for dissertations writing.  Selecting a topic is also difficult task ! Because you should select the topic in which you are interested. Curiosity is must important for writing. Finding Gap is most important in our dissertation. This workshop make things clear in our mind about our dissertation topic and how we are going to put questions in it and how we will give answer to these questions. Thanks to Dilip Barad sir for organizing this one day workshop on research writing & dissertation writing.

Thank you... Department of English for organized such a fruitful Workshop.