Thinking Activity: Learning Outcome-Research Methodology Workshop

Hello Friends 

I am Daya Vaghani, a student of the Department of English, MKBU.On 7th January 2022, we attended a workshop on Research Methodology. It was the second workshop on Research Methodology. In this blog, I am going to write about the learning outcome of this workshop. The task is assigned by Prof Dilip Barad sir.

The workshop was in 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 

1. Importance Of Research- by Prof.J.P.Majmudar

The chief guest of today's session was Prof. Jagdeep Majmudar. He is a retired Prof. of the Department of M.B.A and is the first coordinator. He is reappointed by our university to take care of the research facilitated center. This center mainly focuses on Ph.D. works. 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 the existing literature. After finding the 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 these references. And while doing a literature review we have to give our comments our conclusion to it. The research itself means adding something new to the existing literature. It was a very very fruitful session for us and we are very thankful to Prof. J. P. Majmudar sir.

2. Avoid Plagiarism- Qualitative Research in Digital Era - by Prof. Dilip Barad

Click here to visit the teacher's blog on Plagiarism.

 The other session was on plagiarism. How to avoid plagiarism? and what is the importance of it in research? What is qualitative research and how can we make our research qualitative. We did a workshop in this session. There were 5 criteria for this research…

1. Authority

2. Educational Value

3. Intent

4. Originality

5. Quality

The Plagiarism Spectrum: 10 Types of Unoriginal Work

. Source Educational Evaluation Rubric (SEER) Worksheet

These all things will help us in our dissertation writing.

3. Citation-Tools and Techniques - by Miss Vaidehi Hariyani

The last session was about Citation by Vaidehi mam. In this session, we did group work on various tools of citation and learned so many new things that we weren't aware of. We did citation through Citation Machine (tool) one of the tools of doing citation. In this tool, we find many difficulties such as we are not able to find suffix, volume, and some other information. So in Citation Machine, there are two options for doing it.

1. Automatic Citation

2. Manual Citation

In the automatic citation, a few important pieces of information is not coming. For example author's name, publisher's name. The citation machine is very easy to use as it is also working on mobile and laptops.

Group Task

Thank you.....