Thinking Activity: Learning Outcome-Research Methodology Workshop

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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

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Thinking Activity: Learning Outcome-Research & Dessertation Writing Workshop

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I am Daya Vaghani, student of the Department of English,MKBU.It is said that being a researcher requires dedication, hard work and more than a little inspiration.Research is something that everyone can do, and everyone ought to do. It is simply collecting information and thinking systematically about it.( Raewyn Connell).Well I am not agree with this statement because I believe that it's not too easy to become a researcher.Today in this blog I am going to write about the learning outcome of the workshop that we had attended in 4th January,2022.In this semester we have dissertation writing and for that sir has designed workshop on Research Methodology at Department of English - Maharaja Krishnakumarsinhji Bhavnagar University. The Resource Persons of this workshop were Prof. Dilip Barad and Dr. Ndoricimpa Clement.This blog is assigned as a part of Thinking Activity by our teacher.In this blog I am going to write about the learning outcome of the session.

Research Methodology: 

 A  one Day Workshop

Resource Persons: Prof.Dilip Barad

                        Dr.Clement Ndaricimpa

When we are told to do research and write a dissertation we sometimes do not know where to begin with, what is involved in research, what steps they must follow, what structure a dissertation must have, what argumentation style they may adopt, etc. Indeed, doing research and writing may be daunting to us. This may be because of the complexity and the technicality involved in research and in writing a dissertation. Therefore, this workshop is intended by teacher  to help students.The given topics were the key concern of this workshop:

●    understand what is involved in research and the steps that are adopted in research;

●    identify an appropriate research topic;

●    select and define a research problem;

●    select appropriate research design and methods;

●    organize and write a dissertation;

●    understand the style of argumentation.

In this workshop the resource persons dealt with following topics:

1.Concept of Research

• What is Research?

• Types of Research

• Characteristics of Research

2.Selection of a Topic for Research

• How to select a topic?

• Steps in the selection of topic

• Characteristic of a topic for research

3.Research Process

• Defining Research Problem

• .Research objectives, questions/hypotheses

• Literature Review (Review of the concepts and of previous studies)

• Research Design

• Data collection

• Data analysis

• Interpretation and discussion of the findings

4.Writing a dissertation

They discussed the types of Research they are as below…

Types of Research 1 Historical 2 Descriptive 3 Correlation 4 Cultural

In this workshop we learnt so many things and that will help us to do our research in a more qualitative way.After discussing about the types they discussed the characteristics of research.Research must consist of following characteristics..

1.    It is based on the works of others;

2.    It can be replicated (duplicated)- reliability;

3.    It is generalizable to other settings (external validity);

4.    It is based on some logical rationale and tied to a particular theory (content validity);

5.    It is doable;

6.    It generates news questions;

7.    It is important;

8.    It advances the frontiers of knowledge.

How to select a topic?

Many researchers get stuck while selecting the topic for their research.First, it is recommended to select a topic that is closely connected to our intellectual interests, personal experiences, and favorite research areas. Second, we have to answer the following questions before selecting a topic for research:

●    Do I have necessary skills to accomplish this study?

●    Are research tools and participants accessible to complete this study?

●    Am I financially capable to accomplish my work? Is the allotted time sufficient to finalize all the steps of research?

●    Do I have resources and documents necessary to obtain data?

●    Is there an availability of professionals in my research who are ready to advise and assist me in the course of my research?

After discussing about this sir taught us that which topic should be considered as good and what are the characteristics of the good topic.So here are the Characteristic of a topic for research…

a.    Descriptive and informative (explanatory):

b.    Accurate and precise: 

c.    Internally consistent: 

d. Research process

The structure of a dissertation

	The structure of a dissertation
A	Introduction
B	Literature review
C	Research methods/theoretical        framework for literary studies.
D	Interpretation and discussion of the findings
E	Conclusion

It was very fruitful session for the sem 4 as well sem 2 students.We have already submitted our research proposal to the sir.But after today's session we became more clear about our topic,how can we do the argument,which kind of question we may raise and many more.Many students asked the questions regarding their topic and the answers were quite satisfied to them.At the end of the session sir has given a book for research in ELT as a love of token to the department students.We are greatful to the resource persons for this well designed workshop.

Thank you.....

Reference

Thinking Activity: Translation Workshop: Learning Outcome

 Hello Friend

On 3rd January we attended a workshop on Translation Studies by Vishal Bhadani sir at the Department of English,MKBU.This blog is assigned by Prof.Dilip Barad sir as a part of a thinking activity about the learning outcome of this workshop.The session was in two parts.In the 1st session he began with the very interesting metaphors and how can we connect it to the translation.And then he started his love story with the lady called #translation in a very interesting way.Translation is like interesting metaphors.There is a music notion inside.In his talk he also referred to Gayatri Chakravarthy Spivak she said that

 "Translation is the closest reading of the text."

Vishal Bhadani 

👉Worked as a faculty in English with the premier institutes and universities of the state such as The MSU, SPU, IITE, and Marwadi University.

👉Wrote and translated textbooks for Cambridge University Press, Gujarat State School Textbook Board, National Institute of Open Schooling, etc.

👉Prepared training Manuals for the Finishing School Programme, Govt. of Gujarat, and Learning Materials for BAOU, Ahmedabad.

👉Designed world’s first online course on Gandhiji with the title “ Gandhian Methods to Sustainable Living and Happiness” on Udemy Platform. At present, 750 students from 82 countries are studying the course.

👉Trained thousands of teachers and professors across the state on Science of Learning and delivered a series of lectures for parents.

👉Translated novels of Dhruv Bhatt such as “Timirpanthi’ and ‘Akoopar' In English. The Sociology Textbook of 11th Standard for the National Institute of Open Schooling into Gujarati. Working as a Textbook Board.

👉Delivered experts talks at several platforms such as Symbiosis UniversityPune, Grand Education Fair, Ahmedabad, HRDC- Gujarat University, Children UNiversity-Gandhinagar, Baba Saheb Ambedkar Open University, Ahmedabad ,IITE, Gandhinagar, Vanita Vishram Women’s College-Surat, English Department, SPU and Bhavnagar University, Sahitya Academy Gandhinagar, IIT Rajkot,KCG Ahmedabad, Sarvajanik Education Education Society, Surat, Gandhinagar Institute of Technology, to name a few.

👉Passionate for the neurological basis of learning and designing learning ecosystems.

👉Publications: 

👉Youtube: Science of Learning

Why Is Translation Important ?

In this constantly changing world, it has become important to keep up with the latest trend and that’s why translation is important in the media to formulate effective strategies. Multilingualism is something that should be seriously considered these days in business because it paves the accurate direction to companies in foreign economy. Besides, it ensures that you are passing on accurate messages from one end to another.

1) Has your understanding of translation improved?

Yes,My understanding of translation has improved.Because I haven’t attended any workshop before this and I wasn't aware about the translation studies.It is necessary to know the etymology of any word to connect it with the particular concept.How to translate with particular words.These all things we learnt so far.

2)Translation in terms of metaphors?

We can say that translation is like an interesting metaphors.Bhadani sir gave 7 metaphors to explain how translation Studies is connected with each other.We have to find the word from the given context.It is like a music notions.And it is the closest reading of the text.We can follow playfulness in it.We have to move commuting across linguistic zones.

3) What according to you is the most difficult aspect of practical translation?

The most difficult aspect of practical translation is machine translation.Google translate can not help us at all.The other difficult part is to find appropriate words to replace.Dictionary is a very important tool in translation studies.Sometimes it happens that we can not find the exact meaning of the word in another language.Practical translation is very difficult at the beginning level.

4) Learning outcome from the workshop.

Walter_Benjamin rightly said that

“It is the task of the translator to release in his own language that pure language that is under the spell of another, to liberate the language imprisoned in a work in his re-creation of that work.”

Commuting across the logistics zones is very important while doing translation.He also talk about how intertextuality is used many authors in their work.The another benefit of this work is financial freedom.Translation is an epistemological exercise.To become translator we have to become passionate, explorer to the work.At the end of the session students from sem 2 and sem 4 gave their feedback and Vote of thanks.The session was conclude by Vaidehi Hariyani ma'am.The session was followed by the students-teacher interaction.We did many exercises given by sir. It was quite a good experience for all of us.I would like to thank Dilip Barad sir for organising the session.

Thank You.