Literary Shorts

Honey and Mumford Test to frame research questions

In this episode you will learn 7 essential steps to write literary essays—whether for literature classes or research assignments. You’ll learn how to structure your essays, develop themes and arguments, use textual evidence, revise effectively, and avoid common pitfalls. Ideal for undergraduate and postgraduate students, researchers, or anyone wanting better academic writing skills.

This episode illustrates how to use Inclusive language or gender neutral language while writing research projects. We need to recognize that our readers come from diverse backgrounds and experiences and thus should avoid generalising and stereotyping through our writing. This is an important chapter included in the new MLA9 stylesheet.

This episode is a preliminary introduction to MLA9 that arrived in April 2021. You will find a short comparison between MLA8 and MLA9 stylesheet. This episode also guides one to format one's research project.

This gives you an idea on how to cite audio visual sources, interviews, photographs, and tweets in your thesis or dissertation in MLA8

This will guide you through citation of both print and online articles from journals, newspapers, magazines, Wikipedia, and blogs. The podcast ends with important pointers regarding citation.

This will introduce you to MLA8 citation for print or ebooks. This also includes bibliography or work cited list as well as intext citation or parenthetical reference.

This will give you a wide awareness on searching your material, data or sources both online or offline. It has good information on certain websites and softwares that will be important for your research.

You will learn about the various techniques used in writing dissertation or an academic paper especially summarizing and paraphrasing.

You will understand various stages of reading before writing your dissertation. You will pick up keywords like browsing, skimming, scanning, critical reading, close reading, interpretative reading and creative stage of reading.

This episode will explain 6 major segments that makes an introduction of literature dissertation. The 6 sections are introduction of dissertation an overview, research questions/hypothesis, literature review, primary texts/chapterization, research methodology, significance of research.

Episode 2 will guide you through qualitative research and related methods which are largely used to study literature. Episode 2.1 aims at briefly touching various areas of research in literature and would help you in choosing topic of your dissertation.

You will learn how to write an abstract, style of abstract, template of abstract or research proposal.