Handbook on Writing Research Paper in Social Science Using Advance Tools

Book excerpt: The book has well turned out to be a boon for researchers from academia as well as industry. The book seemly meets the requirement and encounters the dilemma of a ‘first time researcher’ in many ways. The basics of research paper writing are taken well care in the previous editions of the handbooks as proceedings published by Prestige Institute of Management and research, Gwalior. The previous editions focused on steps to carry out review of literature, setting objectives, developing hypothesis, selecting appropriate methods as per objectives, drawing inferences followed by referencing styles. The book not only provides insights to a first time researcher but also introduces them with the latest tools. Part one of the book presents introduction to E views as Chapter 1. The chapter deals with step wise procedure to work with E views elaborately. E-Views is widely used numerous econometric analyses along with statistical analysis. E views provided analysis like cross-section, time series estimates and forecasts, as well as does panel data analysis simultaneously. Chapter 2 is modestly written to introduce ‘Mendeley’ to the researcher. ‘Mendeley is expedient for copious objectives like conducting systematic literature review, research gap identification, setting objectives thereafter, and more over provides a most vital efficacy to manage research papers in a stress-free manner. ‘Mendeley’ is widely used amongst researchers across the globe as a referencing tool as well providing competence to incorporate any style of referencing within fraction of seconds. Thus taking research on next level. Part two of the book contains twelve research papers covering diverse domains like finance, marketing, HR and, IT. The research papers are the sample papers exhibiting the concepts of writing a well-structured paper and elaborating the procedures to be followed while writing a research paper. The research papers included in the book are developed during the ‘Five Day National Research Methodology Workshop’, organized by Prestige Institute of Management and research, Gwalior. The paper writing work was divided into ‘before’, ‘during’ and ‘after’ phases. Topic finalization, measure development, review of literature and data collection was done before the initiation of workshop among the teams of registered participants. The entire methodology, application of data analysis tools and discussion was done during the workshop. Post workshop i.e. the after phase was exclusively dedicated for strengthening the review of literature, discussion of results and, referencing followed by improvement in the overall structure and language of the research paper. We hope the efforts put in the book will surely help readers