Course

Course Objectives

• To enable understand the importance of research publications, plagiarism and resources
• To provide technical writing skills
• To encourage and motivate for research publications following necessary ethics

Course Outcomes:

At the end of the course, the student should be able to

CO01: Understand various formats of technical writing

CO02: Understand and analyse for plagiarism and referencing

CO03: Understand and distinguish between types of scientific reports

CO04To create scientific research articles in a given format

Contents:

1. Principles of Scientific Writing:
   1. Understanding and aligning with expectations of target audience
   2. Organization, coherence, fluency, and conciseness
   3. Hands-on: exercises to read and edit to meet the above criteria
2. Literature review:
   1. Design of prompts and search criteria
   2. Navigating academic libraries and databases
   3. Hands-on: exercises to review types of literature review sections and capture the organization; exercise to create a review on new topic; training on reference management tools (Mendeley, Zotero, etc.)
3. Structuring the manuscript:
   1. IMRAD format (Introduction, Materials & Methods, Results, and Discussion)
   2. Linked sections: Abstract, title, conclusion, future work
   3. Hands-on: exercises to write abstracts
4. Ethics:
   1. Awareness on plagiarism, integrity
   2. AI content
   3. Credits & acknowledgement
   4. Copyright, IPR, Open Access
   5. Hands-on: exercises on using tools like TurnItIn; analysis of historical case studies on breach of ethical integrity
5. Types of articles: generative experimental or analytical study, monograph, thesis, white paper, SOP, manual, concept note, etc.

1. Mohapatra P K J and Moulick S, Principles of Scientific and Technical Writing, 1st ed. McGraw Hill, 2025
2. Raman M and Sharma S, Technical Communication, 4th ed. Oxford University Press, 2022.
3. B. K. Mitra, Effective technical communication: a guide for scientists and engineers. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006.
4. Hamlin A and Rubio C, “Technical Writing,” Open Textbooks, Mar. 2021, [Online]. Available: https://mds.marshall.edu/oa-textbooks/342