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ACADEMIC WRITING (With Research & Publication Ethics Part A & Part B)

H.N.B Garhwal University (A Central University) Srinagar Garhwal and CEC via Swayam

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Myself, Dr Ajay Semalty, from HNB Garhwal University (A Central university) Srinagar Garhwal (Uttarakhand) welcome you on behalf of our entire teamin the new cycle of our course.After the seven successful runs of the course, we are proud to present India's most popular SWAYAM MOOC which gotmaximum number of exam registration (among all the SWAYAM MOOCs) in many previous cycles and has been listed in top 30 MOOCs worldwide (PIB, 27 April 2020;Course in News:http://tiny.cc/AWnews). Recently, the course has been listed in Class Central’s Best Online Courses of All Time (2021 Edn.). So far, more than 64000 learners across more than 100 countries have taken the course.More than 70 universities across the country have adopted the course for credit transfer for UG/PG and Pre Ph D students.Previous performance of the course S No. Course id / Cycle Enrollments 1 https://swayam.gov.in/nd2_ugc19_ge03/preview July 2019 12532 2 https://swayam.gov.in/nd2_cec20_ma04/preview January 2020 7546 3. https://swayam.gov.in/nd2_cec20_ge29/preview, July 2020 8645 4. https://onlinecourses.swayam2.ac.in/cec21_ge18/preview January 2021 6647 5. https://onlinecourses.swayam2.ac.in/cec21_ge32/preview July 2021 11047 6. https://onlinecourses.swayam2.ac.in/cec22_ge01/preview Jan 2022 8078 7. https://onlinecourses.swayam2.ac.in/cec22_ge44/preview July 2022 10020 Total 64515 In academic and research, who does not want the publications? In spite of being the vital requirement in academic & research career there is no comprehensive set up of learning academic writing in the knowledge domain. This course aims to fill this gap by providing the fundamental knowledge required for effective and result oriented academic writing. It is a foundation course and the application of this knowledge completely depends on an individual learner and his or her area of research.Objectives of CourseUpon completing the course, one would be able1. To differentiate between various kind of academic writings.2. To identify and avoid the plagiarism.3. To practice the basic skills of performing quality literature review.4. To practice the basic skills of research paper, review paper and thesis writing.5. To target the research work to suitable journal and communicate for publication6. To practice the Time and team management.7. To practice digital writing or develop Open Educational Resources (OER).8. To write research proposals, conference abstract and book chapters/ book proposals.Target GroupAny student or learner who wants to learn the academic writing. The course shall be helpful for PG students, research scholars, young scientists and faculty members (of any discipline or subject) for their career growth.Learn more about the course gcbTagYoutubeEnqueueVideo("yQ0LTLJDrQM", "HYBn9vMYMu7V");Testimonials from learners"....I was looking for such type of course for many years and finally, you fulfilled my wish to know more about research, guidelines about research, plagiarism, open educational resources, paper writing, thesis writing and many such significant topics for a researcher to know and understand about the various aspects of research." - Dr Anil PatilIt is a great experience. Just like it is a face to face classroom learning. The course providers actually from science faculty even though any one can access in such a way they provided all the information. Their tagged notes to the video is very useful for those who may not interact in web classes. -G. Satyanarayana,Asst. Professor, English."The course is interesting, creating curiosity, enthusiasm, educative, stimulating for a professional career. It is useful for practicing teaching faculty, researcher, and professionals. The presentation and transcript are useful and interesting. The presentation is clear, complete and effective. The quiz questions are interesting and challenging." -V.Chandra Sekhara RaoTeam AWDr Ajay Semalty(Course Coordinator & Subject Matter Expert)Dr Mona Semalty (Co-Course Coordinator & Subject Matter Expert)Prof Rajat Agrawal(Subject Matter Expert)Dr Lokesh Adhikari(Instructional Designer)Pandavaas Creations Pvt. Ltd.ProductionandTeam EMRC Roorkee

Syllabus

Course Duration 15 week
Credits : 04
Week 1
Academic & research writing: Introduction; Importance of academic writing; Basic rules of academic writingWeek 2English in academic writing I & II; Styles of research writingWeek 3*Plagiarism: Introduction; Tools for the detection of plagiarism; Avoiding plagiarismWeek 4*Journal MetricsWeek 5*Author MetricsWeek 6*Literature review: Introduction, Source of literature; Process of literature reviewWeek 7*Online literature databases; Literature management toolsWeek 8Review Paper Writing, I & IIWeek 9Research paper writing I, II, IIIWeek 10Referencing and citation; Submission and; Post submissionWeek 11Thesis Writing I, II & IIIWeek 12Empirical Study I, II & IIIWeek 13*Challenges in Indian research & writing; Team management (mentor and collaborators); Time ManagementWeek 14*Research proposal writing; Abstract/ Conference Paper/ Book/ Book Chapter writing; OERs: basic concept and licensesWeek 15*Open Educational Resources (OERs) for learning & Research; OERs development I & II

Additional Week*
Ethics in Research: Research fraud, competing interest, authorship, slicing research, FFP, COPE guidelines.
* The contents of these weeks (in total) cover the UGC’s newly introduced subject “Research & Publication Ethics” prescribedfor Pre Ph D Courses work of every subject.

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Dr Ajay Semalty

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