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Welcome to my blog. On January, 2022 We attended a Workshop on Research Methodology at Department of English M.K.Bhavnager University. Majmudar Jagdeep chief guest of this workshop. He was retired Prof. of Department of M.B.A and he was the first coordinator. He was reappointed by our university to take care of research facilitated center.
The workshop was organized into the three sessions.
1.Importance Of Research- by Prof.J.P.Majmudar
2.Avoid Plagiarism- Qualitative Research in Digital Era - by Prof. Dilip Barad
3.Citation-Tools and Techniques - by Miss Vaidehi Hariyani
First Session - Prof.Majmudar
In the first session Prof.Majmudar gave very interesting information about research and what is the importance of research. Systematic Scientific inquiry is necessary while doing research.If we conduct any research there must be problems first.And for that it requires the reading of existing literature of the contemporary period.He also said that good research starts with the gaps in existing literature.After finding gap we have to critically read the references and in that who has done what? How did he had done?and the most important is the conclusion of this references.And while doing literature review we have to give our comment our conclusion to it.Reserch itself means adding something new to the existing literature.It was very very fruitful session to us and we are very thankful to Prof. J. P. Majmudar sir.
Second Session - Dr. Dilip Barad
The other session Dilip Barad sir was taught about the plagiarism.How to avoid plagiarism?and what is the importance of it in research. How to pronounce plagiarism? What is meaning of plagiarism and why it is necessary to understand Plagiarism?
Why is it necessary to understand Plagiarism?
1. For academic integrity & honesty
2. Internet resources-advantage/disadvantage
3. Books? (It was and is difficult to identify plagiarism in the works which have used offline book resources)
4. Sume real life examples... (Several politicians in Hungary, Germany have to resign on the charges of plagiarism)
(Here is the blog link of Barad sir on Plagiarism https://blog.dilipbarad.com/2022/01/avoid-plagiarism-research-in-digital-era.html)
Qualitative Research in Digital Era.
There were 5 criteria for this research...
1.Authority
2.Educational Value
3.Intent
4.Originality
5.Quality
Poetry Foundation- Website
Sir given task to us that find out Authentic Website and Chek quality and given your point. I have choose Poetry foundation. I have must visited this site. For the educational values in this site I find out various Poetry by many scholars or a poet just by one click. This site also provide original poem and poet name also mention. So according to me this site is highly Credible.
Authoritative: 3
Educational Values: 3.5
Intent: 3.5
Originality: 3.5
Quality: 3.5
3rd Session- Professor Vaidehi Hariyani
The last session was about Citation by Vaidehi mam.In this session we did group work on various tools of citation and learnt so many new things that we weren't aware about. Me Daya Vaghani, Dhvani Rajyguru , Hina Ba and one more student work on Citation Machine. In Citation Machine we had cited Journal, Books, Digital Images and Film or you tube video.
This the Citation which we have Cited in Citation Machine;👇
1.Book
Kane, Kavita. Sita's Sister. 6th ed., Rupapublication, 2014.
2.Online Journal
Purabiya, Dhruv. Monster’s Humanity in Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, vol. 5, no. 9, September : 2018, 9 Sept. 2018, pp. 32–36.
3.Film video
Ali, Imtiaz, director. Jab We Met, 2007, youtu.be/x73EJYDn674. Accessed 7 Jan. 2022.
This was a good experience working in the group. Citation are the most important in dissertation so thanks to Vaidehi ma'am for taught us about How to Citation any source with help of Various Citation tools.
The whole day was full of information and we end our day after 6 PM. I would like to thanks Prof.Dilip Barad sir and Vaidehi ma'am for organized such fruitful Workshop.
Thank you......
