IITU Department of English

Spring 2013

IYA 2403i Research Reading and Writing

TSIS PROJECT GUIDELINES

Developed by B.Jolamanova

Project title: Writing a technical research paper

Goal: increasing students’ professional English language proficiency, enhancing linguistic and academic research skills as well as overall process of acquiring knowledge.

Participants: individual

Project output: Power Point slides + technical research paper, briefly describing any kind of research done by students in other subjects (laboratory works, projects, course papers, and so on).

Paper structure:

1. Introductory part: Title page; Abstract, Table of Contents, Introduction.

2. Main body: Literature review; Materials and Procedures; Results; Discussion.

3. Concluding part: Conclusion; References; Appendices.

Paper volume: 7 pages (1 – title page, 1 – Table of Contents, 3 – body, 1 - introduction, 1 – conclusion and references).

Format: word-processed, Times New Roman 12 script, A4 paper, double-spaced, no ‘tab” for new paragraphs, on the one side of the page only, 2 cm margin at the top and bottom, 3 cm on the left and 1cm on the right side of each page, IEEE documentation style.

Project timelines:

Week	Stages	Submission
2	Selection of the topic	Project proposal
3	Planning the research	Paper outline
4 – 10	Study of the literature	Literature Review
6 – 7	Research design	Materials and Procedures
10 – 11	Research conduct	Results and Discussion
12 – 13	Paper drafting and editing	Final version
14	Project presentation (5-7 minutes)	Power Point Presentation

Project evaluation criteria:

• task response;

• structure;

• critical thinking;

• language;

• formatting;

• deadlines.