What are the important points to remember while writing assignment, research proposal, and academic papers?
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It is very important that you have an interesting topic which is current, important for industry and academia. Finding this issue can be the most difficult part of writing assignment, proposal and acedmic paper. And it doesn't come overnight. You have to read, read and read a lot on your topic of interest. Reading quality papers can help you finding your topic of ineterest.
I would suggest you to focus on something which you have already done as a project work or assignment in your previous courses. Try to find connections with the latest developments in your field of interest. For example, if you are business graduate, you need to read regularly FT.com/NY Times/Economist/Bloomberg business etc., economic and finance news portal.
Then try to find relevant literatures with the help of your library or online search engines like Google Scholar, RePEc, Research Gate, and Academia. If you have online subscription of ScienceDirect, Emerald, Taylor and Francis, JSTOR, NBER, and other publishers, you can search for related articles from the specific journals. Nowadays, many universities have comprehensive online search portal like EBSCO.
While you are searching literatures you really don't need to read the whole papers read just the abstract and if you find it interesting and relevant go to introduction then look at conclusion. Initially, try to collect as many relevant articles as you can. Sort them according to importance, you can also sort them how frequently they have been cited in other relevant research works.
Then, start making summary table and write your literature review, as it shows how familiar you are with the existing literature. At the same time, try to think which variables are important and frequently used in the literature. Is it available online for free or you have to pay for data? Then think about econometric methodology you can apply to address the research questions and propose a tentative model but it is not that important at the writing proposal stage. Many researchers argue that you better collect data and run your econometric models to see whether you find significant results in your key variables.
Then what might the potential/tentative outcome of your research and how policy makers and industry can apply them in solving the real life problems. Don't forget to mention your research limitations at every stage from Introduction to Conclusion. This indicates that you are aware about your shortcomings but still proceed to investigate the issue because of its importance.
In fact, many Prof's don't look at the methodology part seriously in a research proposal as you would learn more about it later and agree with your supervisors.
This is how I approach writing assignment, proposal, and acedmic papers. I know it is not an essay task to create your own scholarly works even it is harder for non-native English speakers to write papers in English. Moreover, research is painstaking process as you need a lot of thinking, reading and writing. According to one my favourite Professors and mentor Mansur Masih, you need many sleepless night to come up with something really interesting.
Wish this brief note will give some idea and help in writing your assignment, proposal, and academic papers InshaAllah.
Photo Courtesy: https://theeconomyofmeaning.com/2013/06/01/funny-cartoon-the-evolution-of-intellectual-freedom/It is very important that you have an interesting topic which is current, important for industry and academia. Finding this issue can be the most difficult part of writing assignment, proposal and acedmic paper. And it doesn't come overnight. You have to read, read and read a lot on your topic of interest. Reading quality papers can help you finding your topic of ineterest.
I would suggest you to focus on something which you have already done as a project work or assignment in your previous courses. Try to find connections with the latest developments in your field of interest. For example, if you are business graduate, you need to read regularly FT.com/NY Times/Economist/Bloomberg business etc., economic and finance news portal.
Then try to find relevant literatures with the help of your library or online search engines like Google Scholar, RePEc, Research Gate, and Academia. If you have online subscription of ScienceDirect, Emerald, Taylor and Francis, JSTOR, NBER, and other publishers, you can search for related articles from the specific journals. Nowadays, many universities have comprehensive online search portal like EBSCO.
While you are searching literatures you really don't need to read the whole papers read just the abstract and if you find it interesting and relevant go to introduction then look at conclusion. Initially, try to collect as many relevant articles as you can. Sort them according to importance, you can also sort them how frequently they have been cited in other relevant research works.
Then, start making summary table and write your literature review, as it shows how familiar you are with the existing literature. At the same time, try to think which variables are important and frequently used in the literature. Is it available online for free or you have to pay for data? Then think about econometric methodology you can apply to address the research questions and propose a tentative model but it is not that important at the writing proposal stage. Many researchers argue that you better collect data and run your econometric models to see whether you find significant results in your key variables.
Then what might the potential/tentative outcome of your research and how policy makers and industry can apply them in solving the real life problems. Don't forget to mention your research limitations at every stage from Introduction to Conclusion. This indicates that you are aware about your shortcomings but still proceed to investigate the issue because of its importance.
In fact, many Prof's don't look at the methodology part seriously in a research proposal as you would learn more about it later and agree with your supervisors.
This is how I approach writing assignment, proposal, and acedmic papers. I know it is not an essay task to create your own scholarly works even it is harder for non-native English speakers to write papers in English. Moreover, research is painstaking process as you need a lot of thinking, reading and writing. According to one my favourite Professors and mentor Mansur Masih, you need many sleepless night to come up with something really interesting.
Wish this brief note will give some idea and help in writing your assignment, proposal, and academic papers InshaAllah.
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