Publish through ITBM

Herewith the notes I took when En Suhaimi from ITBM came to UPSI and introduced an alternative way of getting books published.

Bayaran: RM5000++ per book
Bahasa: English or Malay
Penulis boleh dapatkan penaja bersama

Untuk tujuan kepustakaan...

Kulit boleh buat sendiri

Perlu dapatkan kebenaran UPSI bagi karya yang berasaskan R&D

lebih kurang 200 halaman

bebas dalam penetapan harga buku

pasarkan ke perpustakaan, 500 sekali

Sesuai untuk profesor yang bakal bersara: Biography

Spectrum of Fundamental Research

This hierarchical flowchart flashed in my mind when I discussed with FAR about her research after she presented her research findings. 

Tips for writing the Discussion and Conclusions Chapter

Herewith some tips I gave to a PhD student who just completed his data analysis (the Findings chapter):

1. You can choose to split the Discussion and Conclusions into two chapters, or combine them into one chapter (explain why you choose to do either one in Chapter 1. 

2. The chapter should present your answers to each research question, one-by-one. 

3. While presenting your answer to every question, you should compare your answer to others' answers (from Literature Review). 

4. This means you need to update your Literature Review after answering this chapter. 

5. Draw conclusions from the answers to each research question. 

6. After that, discuss knowledge contributions and practical contributions

7. Finally, explain the theoretical implication and practical (application) implications to the nation. 

8. Suppose some limitations of your study, and suggest possible future studies.