Aim

To assess the students understanding of Research Methods & achievement of learning outcomes of the module with respect to the abilities to critically analyse technical papers, interpret scientific & technical data, proper referencing and citation of the literature.

Learning Outcomes

Evaluate the literature relevant to a chosen project topic

Tasks

Task-1:

A technical paper will be given to the student by his/her Project Supervisor and he/she will be required to write a critical analysis and an abstract based on the scientific information available in the paper.

Abstract:

The Abstract must contain description of the topic, important applications of the topic, brief description about previous literature present in the paper, methodology adopted by the author, important results obtained and conclusions derived from the results. The word count is limited to 250 words and keywords should be written at the end of the abstract

Outlines Scheme:

-Abstract Development

-Writing Quality, Logical and Focused

-Basic Grammar, Spelling and Other Conventions

Critical Analysis:

With the introduction to the topic, students are expected to critically analyze the literature part that contains key findings of previous authors, methodology adopted in given paper, parameters used for analysis, analyze the results obtained (from graphs/tables), important conclusions derived based on the result, strength and weaknesses in the paper and scope of further investigations identified. Each topic has to be separately presented in the form of paragraphs and the word count for this part is 1500.

TASK-2:

Visit the Library & Resource Center, e-brary and Internet sites and look for the literature like books, e-books, journal/conference papers, report, articles, and videos etc., (preferably) related to the project topic or area. For this literature found, write the in-text citation and prepare the reference in CCE-Harvard referencing style.

There must be: 2 Library books or E-library books, 5 Journal or Conference Papers/Reports or Magazine Articles etc., 2 Web based resource like websites, electronic report, videos etc. and 1 Image in Book.

*** Words count = 1800 words.

*** In-Text Citations and References using Harvard style.

*** I’ve uploaded file named “abstract paper”