Research methodology as a module is full of lessons that are clearly stated in the syllabus. It handles the requirements of making an ethical academic research. The course consists of two chapters; the two are included in this document.

 The first chapter defines one important notion which is plagiarism. The latter is well and clearly defined to show the negative effect of this phenomenon on any academic research. In order to have an ethical piece of writing, the one should avoid plagiarism. This is the second part, how to avoid plagiarism? For doing so, some techniques, namely paraphrasing, summarizing and quotation are used to get an honest research work.

  The second chapter is devoted to two citation styles, MLA and APA. The chapter begins by defining APA style, and goes further to tackle the way both in-text citation and work-cited list of this style should occur. In the same manner and with the same steps, the MLA style is handled