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Text Book(s):
Neeraj Pandey and Khushdeep Dharni, Intellectual Property Rights, First edition, PHI learning Pvt. Ltd., Delhi,
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2014.
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2 Uma Sekaran and Roger Bougie, Research methods for Business, 5 Edition, Wiley India, New Delhi, 2012.
Stuart Melville and Wayne Goddard, “Research methodology: an introduction for science & engineering
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students”, 2 edition, Juta Academic, 2001.
4 Ramakrishna B & Anilkumar H S, Fundamentals of Intellectual Property Rights, Ist edition, Notion Press, 2017.

Reference Books(s) / Web links:
William G Zikmund, Barry J Babin, Jon C.Carr, Atanu Adhikari,Mitch Griffin, Business Research methods, A
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South Asian Perspective, 8 Edition, Cengage Learning, New Delhi, 2012.

Subject Code Subject Name Category L T P C
AC19101 ENGLISH FOR RESEARCH PAPER WRITING HS 3 0 0 0
(Common to all branches of M.E. /M.Tech / MBA – I Semester)

Objectives:
 Express technical ideas in writing
 Plan and organize the research paper
 Understand the structure and familiarise the mechanics of organised writing
 Improvise academic English and acquire research writing skills

UNIT-I INTRODUCTION TO RESEARCH WRITING 9
Research – Types of Research – Selecting the Primary resources – Categorizing secondary sources – Discovering a
researchable area and topic – Need Analysis – Research Question- Focussing on the Research Problem- Developing
Research Design – Framing the Hypothesis – Identifying the Scope of the Research – Writing – General and
Academic Writing
UNIT-II LANGUAGE OF WRITING 9
Active reading – text mining – use of academic words – jargons – ambiguities – use of expression – use of tense –
proper voices – third person narration – phraseology – use of foreign words – use of quotes – interpreting quotes.
UNIT-III THE FORMAT OF WRITING 9
Types of Journals – different formats and styles – IEEE format – Structure – Margins – Text Formatting – Heading
and Title – Running Head with Page Numbers – Tables and illustrations – Paper and Printing – Paragraphs –
Highlighting – Quotation – Footnotes
UNIT-IV ORGANISING A RESEARCH PAPER 9
Title- Abstract – Introduction – Literature review – Methodology – Results –Discussion –Conclusion – Appendices –
Summarising – Citation and Bibliography
UNIT-V PUBLISHING PAPER 9
Finding the Prospective publication or Journal – analysing the credits – Reviewing – Revising – Plagiarism Check –
Proof reading – Preparing the Manuscript- Submitting – Resubmitting – Follow up – Publishing
Total Contact Hours : 45

Course Outcomes:
On completion of the course, students will be able to
 Understand the basic structure of research work
 Apply proper use of language in writing paper
 Comprehend different formats of journal paper
 Learn the process of writing a research paper
 Know the process of publishing journal paper