After a long gap, I would like to post on my blog
again. This post is about documentation of the carried research
work. Many of the M.pharmacy second year may have completed their
research work in lab and currently may have started documenting the
research work which is called a thesis. In any Industrial scenario, there
are two things one, which is the technical or practical work that is done on
the floor and the other is documentation of work that is carried out.
Documenting the work whether it is production, quality analysis or a research
work is equally important of doing the work. This documentation helps in
ways in regulatory point of view as well as to the company. Documentation
in industrial scenario is a different issue where the head of QA department
will be an in-charge. I shall discuss about this in my upcoming
posts. Right now, I would like to discuss about documentation of a
research work. Every university will have their own guidelines for submitting
the research work. But I would like to discuss about the general aspects
of making a thesis look effective.
Brief overview of thesis book:
Generally, a thesis starts with title of work, student name,
university name, guide name and finally the college name. The next page consists of declaration stating
that the work has been performed on your own and not replicated from
anywhere. The next pages are declaration
from guide and principal of the college.
It will look good if an Abstract of the work (brief overview) is
included in next page. The next page is
the abbreviations that are used followed by contents. The contents include Aim, scope and
objective, Introduction, Drug and excipients profile, Literature review,
Experimental investigations, Experimental results, Results and discussion, Summary,
conclusion and future recommendation, finally bibliography.
It is a common tendency to cut, copy, and paste in the
introduction part from different sources of net or from a review or research
article. This is plagiarism which is
absolutely not acceptable and considered as crime in foreign countries. It is
the stealing of one’s ideas and method of writing. It will not help in any way. There are many arguments on it. I would like to say only one thing regarding
this issue. Avoiding plagiarism gives
honor to the author and also helps in generating new ideas besides helping you
in understanding the theory and concepts.
Visit www.pharminfo.net for more
information on plagiarism.
Drug & Excipients profile, Literature review can be
easily written. In the literature
review, ensure that most relevant work is cited. (Give preference to drug and
later concept like increase in bioavailability, sustained release etc.)
Experimental investigations include the materials and
methods used along with the source of chemicals. Applying statistical ANOVA to
the results will always help. Different
software (graph pad prism is one of it) is available to carry out ANOVA.
Dissolution graphs (time vs % dissolved, first order or zero order
graphs) should be present neatly using excel.
Drug- excipient compatibility (IR graphs) interpretation is
important. See the wave number at which
peak appeared and write the shift that appeared when combined with the
excipient. Interpretation of results of
dissolution profiles, rate graphs, IR peaks with proper reasonable thinking
gives good appearance to the thesis and also helps in improving knowledge. This will help in designing the power point
and also improves your subject knowledge to confidently face the Viva and
interviews. I do not know whether this
helps or not. But I presented my views
in my own words.
All the Best!!!
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