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    A Course On Academic Writing: DR Manideepa Patnaik Director, Language Resource Centre Bhubaneswar, Orissa, India

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    This document provides an overview of a course on academic writing taught by Dr. Manideepa Patnaik. It also includes follow up questions for the students about defining their thesis topics and developing a content outline. Specifically, it asks students to 1) define their thesis title in 50 words, 2) describe their work, 3) discuss if they feel proud about their research problem, 4) identify issues and sub-issues, and 5) choose a topic close to their heart. An imaginary 5 chapter content outline is also provided as an example for students to describe sections and sub-sections of their thesis.

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    This document provides an overview of a course on academic writing taught by Dr. Manideepa Patnaik. It also includes follow up questions for the students about defining their thesis topics and developing a content outline. Specifically, it asks students to 1) define their thesis title in 50 words, 2) describe their work, 3) discuss if they feel proud about their research problem, 4) identify issues and sub-issues, and 5) choose a topic close to their heart. An imaginary 5 chapter content outline is also provided as an example for students to describe sections and sub-sections of their thesis.

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    This document provides an overview of a course on academic writing taught by Dr. Manideepa Patnaik. It also includes follow up questions for the students about defining their thesis topics and developing a content outline. Specifically, it asks students to 1) define their thesis title in 50 words, 2) describe their work, 3) discuss if they feel proud about their research problem, 4) identify issues and sub-issues, and 5) choose a topic close to their heart. An imaginary 5 chapter content outline is also provided as an example for students to describe sections and sub-sections of their thesis.

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    A Course On Academic Writing: DR Manideepa Patnaik Director, Language Resource Centre Bhubaneswar, Orissa, India

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    A Course on Academic Writing

    Dr Manideepa Patnaik
    Director, Language Resource Centre
    Bhubaneswar, Orissa, India

    Follow up questions

    You can maximize from this course only when you spend some time with the sessions I
    send you. You can keep them for future reference too if you want. But I would prefer to
    have an interactive session with you. As I type this out I literally imagine you sitting in
    front of me.

    Now I wish to ask you few follow up questions. I will appreciate it if you can find time to
    respond to them. I can imagine you all must be as lazy as I have been all these years. But
    when there is reinforcement I do work. It will be nice if you can reinforce yourselves in
    some way or other. If you want I can send you some more tips on self motivation but if
    you are too busy with your teaching activity and there is little that I can do other than
    telling you to please hurry up because getting your degree fast may help you get a
    promotion fast.

    Some of the introspective questions I want to answer are the following

    1. Have you been able to define your thesis title in 50 odd words?

    2. Have you been able to describe your work? Can you send it to me?

    3. Are you feeling proud about the research problem you have identified?

    4. Have you started seeing issues and sub-issues?

    5. Are you sure that you have chosen a topic that’s close to your heart?

    Note- If you take up a topic that’s in fashion but not necessarily close to your heart then
    you are not likely to stick to it as a longer research goal. Such a decision will bring you
    into academic demand though. If you can spend half a day thinking or reading or talking
    about your topic then that’s the topic that’s close to your heart. It’s very very important
    that you decide on a topic on which you can endlessly read and write. That will help you
    to complete your PhD soon and be a comparatively much confident academic writer.
    Now let me take the liberty to design a content page for you. Just tell me whether you can
    write a word or two or a sentence or two against section and sub-section? I imagine your
    thesis has five chapters.

    An imaginary content page of your thesis

    Acknowledgments

    1. Introduction
    1.1 Issues and goals
    1.2 Approach to the issues
    1.3 Organization of the thesis

    2. Theoretical Framework
    2.1
    2.2
    2.3
    2.4

    Appendix 2.A:
    Appendix 2.B:

    3. Background work/Review of literature


    3.1
    3.1.1
    3.1.2
    3.1.3
    3.2
    3.2.1
    3.2.2
    3.2.2.1
    3.2.2.2
    3.2.2.3
    3.3 New data
    3.4 Data interpretation
    3.5 Details of data analysis
    4. Planning and Policy issues

    4.1
    4.2
    4.3

    5. Open questions and future directions

    5.1
    5.2
    5.3

    References

    I will really like it if you can spend sometime on this session and get back to me. I
    don’t want to pile up lessons on you. I will be back tomorrow around the same time.

    Yours truly,

    Manideepa

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