GRADUATION RESEARCH

SUPERVISION SESSION 1
CLASS 3
DR. SUJATHA MENON

GUIDELINES FOR SELECTING

A TOPIC
DONT
CHOOSE
A
BROAD
TOPIC
BEAR IN MIND YOUR TIME
LIMIT AND THE NUMBER OF
PAGES OF YOUR RESEARCH (815 PAGES)
CHECK
IF
THERE
ARE
SUFFICIENT RESOURCES
CONSULT YOUR SUPERVISOR
BEFORE YOU FINALIZE YOUR
TOPIC.

SELECTING A TOPIC:
LITERATURE
Choose a topic, which deals with

1 novel, or 1 play, or 1 short story (2

maximum) or 1 long poem (or 2 short poems).
If you are working on a novel, OR a play,
choose 1 aspect of the novel like
CHARACTERS, SETTING, OR THEME, OR
SYMBOLISM
If you are working on a short story, you can
work on topics like Symbols, Themes, or
Characters, or even Elements of a Short Story.
If you are working on a poem or two poems,
then you can work on themes, poetic devices
(use of metaphor or alliteration, or simile)

Choose
LINGUISTICS/ELT
a topic that you can work on,
within 2 months. DO NOT CHOOSE A
VERY DIFFICULT TOPIC OR YOU WILL
HAVE A TOUGH TIME WITH YOUR
RESEARCH.
Choose a topic related to skills
Listening, Speaking, Reading
Writing or even to topics
Grammar,
Vocabulary,
Pronunciation.

like
and
like
and

You cannot choose a BROAD TOPIC

like
LISTENING SKILLS.
You have to choose a topic like
Teaching
Listening
to
School
Children in KSA, or Problems in
Reading
Among
High
School

RESOURCES: PRINT AND WEB

You have to read resources before you
choose your topic. (OR) If your
supervisor suggests a topic, then you
must check the internet or the library
for resources.
When you find good resources, note
them down in detail (Author, Title,
Publisher, Place of Publication, Year).
Finally, you can decide which of the
resources is good and which can be
removed from the list or bibliography.

RESOURCES: PRINT AND WEB

YOUR
ENTIRE
RESEARCH
SHOULD BE DOUBLE-SPACED. The
font should be TIMES NEW ROMAN.
Your bibliography should also be
DOUBLE-SPACED. If a particular
name of an internet source or book
runs to more than 1 line (2 or 3 lines),
then the second and the third line
should be indented 0.5 inches further.
This is called hanging indent.

S.
N.
1

Author

Sidney
Sheldon

Archibald
Henderson
William
Righter

Title

Place of
Publisher
Publicatio
n

Yea
r

tell me
your
dreams
is bernard
shaw a
dramatist?

New York

Warner Books

1998

New Jersey

Literary

2011

Licensing LLC

the myth of Cambridge

Cambridge

1994

theory

University Press

1. Sheldon, Sidney. Tell Me Your Dreams. New

York: Warner Books, 1998. Print.

Hanging Indent

2 space

INTERNET RESOURCES

Name of the Author (as for books)

Name of the Article
Name of the Web Site
Name of the Sponsor
Date of Publication
Web
Date of Access

INTERNET RESOURCES
https://www.milkmaid.in/videos/cakes
-and-bakes-recipes/black-forest-cake
http://seaworld.org/en/animalinfo/animal-infobooks/killer-whale/
http://urp.ucsd.edu/forstudents/what-is-research.html

EXAMPLE
Killer Whales. Sea World Parks and
Entertainment. Sea World Parks and
Entertainment, n.d. Web. 14 Mar 2015.

Black
Forest
Cake.
Nestle
Milkmaid. Nestle, n.d. Web. 14
Mar 2015.