FACULTY DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM (VIRTUAL) ON THESIS WRITING
LIBA in collaboration with Assumption University, Thailand jointly organized the online FDP on Thesis Writing on 21st April 2021. More than 77 participants attended the online FDP from different academic institutions from Karnataka, Maharashtra, Meghalaya and also an International participant from France. The FDP organised by the office of Associate Dean-Research Dr. Deepa Ittimani, gave an overview of the importance of Thesis Writing. Fr. C. Joe Arun, LIBA inaugurated the session speaking on Why, What, How, When and With Whom of Thesis Writing. Dr. Akanksha Jaiswal facilitated the first session on writing quality journal article and writing of abstracts. The second session was taken by Dr. Marrissa Fernando, MMOD, Assumption University, Thailand on the title literature review. Dr. Shanthi Venkatesh took the topic on justification of methodology. The final session on the topic of research database software Mendeley and plagiarism checking was handled by Dr. Deepak Mathivathanan. The FDP motivated and enlightened Phd scholars and guides on principles of research, organization of chapters, and hands on training of research database software Mendeley and a demo on plagiarism checking using Turnitin software. The participants gave a positive feedback and requested more such FDPs from LIBA in the future, especially on the research topics.