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RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
Introduction and Literature Review
By
Dr. Dilip Ambarkhane
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Introduction and Literature Review

• (1) Identification of Research questions. (Should precede

literature review.
• (2) It involves reading relevant research papers pertaining to the
topic.

• (3) Jotting down relevant points.

• (4) Paraphrasing and Citing.

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Introduction and Literature Review

• (5) Paragraph should be precise and brief.

• (6) Should be connected through a flow of thought.

• (7) Finally it should bring out research question through

research gap in the literature.

• (8) It should end up with structure of the paper .

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Introduction
• This section should contain

• (1) Introductory paragraph.

• (2) Subsequent paragraphs should lead to need for present
research
• (3) Research question.
• (4) Should mention about method and Data used.
• (5) Structure of the paper.
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Literature Review
• It involves reading relevant research papers pertaining to the
topic.
• Paraphrasing and Citation.

• Whatever you want to write should be cited through literature.

• It should be relevant to the topic.

• Should be in a flow a sequence or flow of thought.

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Literature Review
• Literature review should be done about parameters selected by
analysis.
• All the citations must cited at the bottom of the paper under
references.
• What is your research topic?
• (It should important and not researched earlier)
• How to cite?
• How to paraphrase?