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HOW TO START A RESEARCH PROJECTAbdullah Bin Khurram
(President, RSRS)
Forming a Group
Group of 3 Can be more or less, but that has
implications Choose the leader/1st author Clarify beforehand the order of
authorship
Research Topic
Choose a research TopicOR Ask a good questionOR Come up with a good hypothesis
Literature Review
Google Scholar PubMed
Narrow your topic down to a Research Objective
•SpecificS•MeasurableM•AchievableA•ReproducibleR•Time BoundT
Make a Research Proposal
Go to rsrs-rmc.weebly.com Download the forms and fill them in Contact your coordinators for help filling
them in Send the completed proposal and
application form to [email protected]
Make the corrections Submit 8 copies when approved
Ethical approval
You may be asked to present in an IRF meeting
Research Proposal presentation will be on PowerPoint and will include the same slides as are the headings in the Research Proposal.
After ethical approval, you can initiate Data Collection
Data Collection and Analysis
Use Data collection tools and Techniques Use SPSS or Stata or the likes of it for
data analysis
Research Paper
Write your research paper Reference every fact and don’t present
random guesses as facts Go to JRMC website for “Instructions for
authors” No plagiarism
Components of a Paper
Title and authors Abstract Introduction Materials and Methods Results Discussion Conclusion Acknowledgments References
Submitting the Paper
Send the written paper to [email protected]
After corrections, print the hard copies and write on a CD and send it to Dr. Faiza again. (Checkers are Dr. Khurram and Dr. Nadeem
Ikram) Repeat the process ‘n’ number of times. Wait for it to be published
CONGRATULATIONSYou have a Research Paper
