Components Incorporated in Academic Journal Articles of T.U

Abstract

This research work entitled Components Incorporated in Academic Journal Articles of T.U. aims at exposing the pre-existing formats of articles in journals produced from the various Nepalese institutions and tracing out the effective structure through comparing and analyzing them minutely. The articles for the research were selected from different genres by using non random purposive sampling procedure. The secondary data were collected from books, theses, articles, journals, and so forth. The populations of the study were ten different journals published from Nepal and the sample consisted of forty articles; four articles each from two volumes of one academic genre. The data were collected by using the tool of observation and have been analyzed and interpreted descriptively with the help of simple tabulations and statistical signs-plus and minus. The major finding of this study shows that the few journal articles published in Nepal, to some extent, found to be rule bound with the mainstream standard of writing articles in academic journals but most of the articles seemed autonomous, violating the standard rules.

This thesis has been divided into five different chapters. The first chapter deals with general background of the study, statement of the problem, rationale of the study, objectives, significance, delimitations of the study and operational definition of the key terms. Similarly, the second chapter consists of the review of the related theoretical literature, implications of the review for the study and conceptual frameworks. The third chapter deals with the methodological aspects under which design of the study, population and sample, sampling procedures, data collection tools, data collection procedure and data analysis and interpretation procedure have been included. The fourth chapter focuses on the results and discussions of the data in greater detail. As the fifth chapter of the study, it consists of summary, conclusions and implications of the study in policy making level and practice level with some directions for the further research. The selected three journal articles, references and appendices are attached at the end of the thesis.