By Tarun Tapas Mukherjee

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Guidelines
A. Select your topic
B. Abstract
Include a thesis statement in the abstract: the central point of what you intend to discuss, argue, discover, establish etc. Briefly introduce the theme and tell the readers how you intend to proceed. The thesis statement or research question must be original and novel and not outdated, cliched. Avoid making the article a commentary or critical appreciation or review.
C. Introduction
Introduction: Introduce the scholarly problem/discovery/points of analysis.
D. Developing argument
Develop your arguments or establish your points by a detailed analysis supported by the textual references and the established critical opinions. Use inside-the-body citations. Verify the citations of authorities also as things may change with the change of time and new discovery/insights may come out.
Break your discussion into paras on the basis of reasoning in order to make the article thematically coherent and critically sound. All the paras need to be thematically linked.
E. Conclusion
Conclusion should not be a summary of what you have already said before. You need to provide new insights/arguments/discoveries etc on the basis of your arguments supported by the text and the critical opinions. So be confidently critical and definitive. Vagueness is to be avoided.
F. References
You need to prove that you have consulted enough critical opinions in order to make your points. Use at least 10 references [not just names]

Full length: A full-length article needs to be 2000 words ideally for M.A standard.
Avoid first person view and pronouns, activistic utterances, gender/language/culture bias, overstatement.

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