This is a research methodology course designed for second-year undergraduate students of English. It tackles the methodology of doing academic research.

The first chapter defines academic research and presents different research approaches; namely, qualitative, quantitative and mixed-methods. It also elaborates on the plethora of research methods used in the afore-mentioned approaches, such as: questionnaires, observation, interviews, and focus groups.

The second chapter tackles research ethics. It starts by defining ethics in research and goes further to discuss plagiarism. It also highlights some of the ways researchers use to avoid plagiarism, such as: paraphrasing, summarising, and quoting. Both chapters include various tasks to check the students' understanding of the materials presented.

The third chapter is about citing the references used in one's research. It looks at two citing conventions: the American Psychological Association (APA) and the Modern Languages Association (MLA). 

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