This course will equip you with the necessary skills to conduct sucessful research. The aims and objectives of this course are to introduce students to the very basic concepts of language which have immediate relation to their ordinary as well as academic life. To sensitize students to the various shades and aspects of language, to show that it is not a monolithic whole but something that can be looked at in detail. The core concepts of research in linguistics will particularly be discussed. The students will further be taught and hand on practice will be given about the citation and on line research