AN INVESTIGATION INTO THE AWARENESS ABOUT THE ACADEMIC WRITING STRATEGIES AMONG THE RESEARCH SCHOLARS: A CASE STUDY OF KARNATAK UNIVERSITY, DHARWAD

Abstract

The primary aim of the study is to know the level of awareness of article writing skills and Academic footprints by the regular research scholars of both the Science and Social Sciences disciplines of the Karnatak University, Dharwad. For the present study the Survey method was adopted and questionnaire tool to collect the data from the regular research scholars. Only 50 regular research scholars of Science and Social Sciences faculties who have registered for Ph.D. during 2019 or afterwards were considered. Multistage Sampling technique was adopted to gather the data. A pre-training questionnaire (Google form was created in this regard) was distributed to the regular research scholars of Science and Social Sciences discipline. Then a workshop was conducted on how to enhance the article writing skills and the Academic Foot prints (which included the topics like citations, H-index and Impact factor etc.). After the workshop, again a questionnaire (post-training) comprising of 12 questions were sent to all the research scholars to assess the impact of training programme / workshop and how well these programmes enhanced their article writing skills.

Keywords: Academic Footprints, Article writing skills, Karnatak University, Research Scholars, Science Discipline, Social Science Discipline