Course contents

  1. Introduction of concept of science and scientific method.
  2. The concept, purpose and kinds of research project and Scientific Reports.
  3. Collection and organizing source materials: reviewing the literature and preparing bibliography.
  4. The techniques of composition: rules of scientific writing, word usage in scientific writing, style for composing scientific writing.
  5. Writing thesis, scientific papers, and project reports; table of contents, list of tables, the use of scientific quotations, illustrations, appendices, statistics and tables, standard abbreviations.
  6. Preparing preliminary draft, editing, and evaluating the final draft.
  7. Preparation of PC forms.
  8. Plagiarism, its types and testing methods.
  9. Policy of HEC on Plagiarism.
  1. Exercise of scientific writing and research proposal.
  2. Exercise of collecting material from different sources on assigned topics and oral presentations.
  3. Use of reference manager, endnote and Turnitin software.