GUIDELINES FOR PREPARATION OF THE SYNOPSIS OF DISSERTAION

FOR BALLB/ BBALLB

 The topic of the dissertation has to be submitted before 25 th of November 2019 to the
mentors mention in the circular.
 The synopsis should be in the range of 2500- 3000 words in Times New Roman with
font size of 12 & 1.5 line spacing
 For footnoting, it is referred the ILI Rules of footnoting available at
http://ili.ac.in/footnoting.pdf.
 The hard copy of the Synopsis should be submitted to their respective Mentors for
approval and finally it will be submitted to HOD Madam BY December 20, 2019.
 The synopsis should also be emailed to Dr Amita Rathi/Ms Arnika Tiwari with cc to
HOD Madam.
 The synopsis defense will take place by last week of December 2019.
 The detailed schedule will be communicated to you shortly.
 When the topic and synopsis will approved, it shall be intimated by your said mentor.

Based on the academic inputs Of HOD and your mentor may ask you to revise the
synopsis and resubmit it on a later date or modify the title chosen.

Format for the writing of synopsis:

Title
Title should be simple and self-explanatory

Introduction
Briefly introduce the topic of research in detail to describe the essence of the concerned
topic.

Why have you selected this topic?

Briefly describe the main reasons for selecting your topic such as the significance of the
topic from a theoretical perspective or form any other perspective.

Review of Literature
This should include thematic review of primary and secondary sources.

Objective and Scope of your research

State clearly the questions for which answers are sought through this research.
Define the conceptual, analytical and theoretical boundaries of your research.

Limitations of your research

State clearly what your research does not cover. This would help you to focus on your
research topic better.

Research Questions/working hypothesis

Identify key four to five research questions that you would like to address in your dissertation
or a working hypothesis that you would like to test. In this section you should be able to
demonstrate the significance of the research questions to your overall research.

Research Methodology
Discuss briefly the methodology that you will follow to answer the research questions or
to test the working hypothesis.

Tentative Conclusions
Mention any tentative conclusions that have arrived at from your preliminary research
(it is totally understandable that you may not be able to arrive at any conclusions at
the Synopsis stage or that your conclusions/findings might change as your research
progresses).

Tentative cauterization
This should include a brief description of each cauterization.

Bibliography
Provide a list of leading textbooks, journal articles and other writings and also
primary sources like legislations, treaties and court decisions that you would study for
your dissertation.

Briefly a synopsis must be in this order.

Following will be the contents of synopsis:         

 i.            Introduction  

ii.           Review of Literature
iii      Statement of Problem
iv       Hypothesis
v        Research Questions
vi       Objectives
vii     Research Methodology
viii    Tentative Chapterization
ix      Bibliography

Note: Signed Synopsis should be submitted in spiral binding.

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