Topics include literature search techniques, sampling, research design, organization of research project, research ethics, techniques of measurements, analysis of quantitative and qualitative data, presentation of results, and learning how to write research proposals.
Main Text Book: Recent published paper in leading physics journal Subsidiary Books: N. Walliman, Research Methods: The Basics, Routledge (2010) S Rajasekar, Research methodology, arXiv:physics/0601009v3 [physics.gen-ph]