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This book is an invaluable resource for all beginning students striving to achieve ethical and excellent writing performances. Endorsements: Mligo covers, in a clear format, all the relevant steps needed in the production of a good research paper. After teaching for more than a decade, both in undergraduate and graduate programs, and having had to spend precious class time teaching students how to write research papers when I should have been teaching biblical interpretation, I will no longer do that. This book will be required reading for every single student who enters my class. --Andrew M. Mbuvi, Shaw University Divinity School An indispensable book for aspiring academics that provides essential tools in academic writing. Through this book, Mligo bridges the chasm between formative high school education and the university level. I highly recommend this book to all students who begin graduate studies. --Zorodzai Dube, University of South Africa About the Contributor(s): Elia Shabani Mligo (PhD, University of Oslo, Norway) is an employee of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Tanzania, Southern Diocese. He currently teaches Theology and Research at Amani University Project in Njombe operating under Iringa University College of Tumaini University. 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This book comprises most materials necessary for students to write convincing and persuasive academic papers. It defines an academic paper, explains its importance in higher education, and outlines the necessary steps in writing a well-presented, well-argued, and well-documented academic paper. This book also discusses in detail and with concrete examples the question of plagiarism, the most serious offense in academic writing, including the effects of plagiarism in the production of new knowledge and the consequences to those caught plagiarizing. This book is an invaluable resource for all beginning students striving to achieve ethical and excellent writing performances. Endorsements: Mligo covers, in a clear format, all the relevant steps needed in the production of a good research paper. After teaching for more than a decade, both in undergraduate and graduate programs, and having had to spend precious class time teaching students how to write research papers when I should have been teaching biblical interpretation, I will no longer do that. This book will be required reading for every single student who enters my class. --Andrew M. Mbuvi, Shaw University Divinity School An indispensable book for aspiring academics that provides essential tools in academic writing. Through this book, Mligo bridges the chasm between formative high school education and the university level. I highly recommend this book to all students who begin graduate studies. --Zorodzai Dube, University of South Africa About the Contributor(s): Elia Shabani Mligo (PhD, University of Oslo, Norway) is an employee of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Tanzania, Southern Diocese. 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Unlike the many volumes on research that are mostly theoretical, this book originated in the classroom and grew out of the students' own needs to design and conduct satisfactory research in order to meet academic requirements. It is also designed to help experienced researchers in their research ventures. In fulfilling this purpose, the author uses simple, straightforward language. He also provides appropriate examples and illustrations to enable the reader to grasp the basic concepts of research. The book will prove a useful guide for students and researchers in social sciences and humanities who wish to transform research theory into real and feasible research projects. Elia Shabani Mligo's Introduction to Research Methods and Report Writing is an informative and a critical step-by-step guide for students and researchers across the social sciences and humanities. Both experienced researchers and beginners will find this book a useful tool for understanding the basics of scientific research planning, execution, and reporting. --Cornelius Simba, Senior Lecturer and Director of Library Services, University of Iringa This practical guide to research is an easily accessible book written after the author's long experience in teaching and supervising research projects for degree and nondegree students. Well-presented, well-documented, and well-argued, this book is commendable and will greatly serve as a guide and quick reference for any researcher and supervisor of research. --Benedict L. K. Mwaibasa, Teofilo Kisanji University, Mbeya, Tanzania This introduction to research methods is extremely valuable and surprisingly thorough, although generally kept in an accessible form and language. I will definitely recommend this book to students in the humanities and social sciences. --Marius Timmann Mjaaland, Professor of Philosophy and Theology, Academic Director of PluRel: Interdisciplinary Studies of Religion in Pluralist Societies, University of Oslo Elia Shabani Mligo (PhD, University of Oslo, Norway) is Senior Lecturer in Research, Philosophy, and Religious Studies at Tumaini University Makumira, Mbeya Center in Tanzania. He is the author of many books and articles on contextual theology and research. 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Both experienced researchers and beginners will find this book a useful tool for understanding the basics of scientific research planning, execution, and reporting. --Cornelius Simba, Senior Lecturer and Director of Library Services, University of Iringa This practical guide to research is an easily accessible book written after the author's long experience in teaching and supervising research projects for degree and nondegree students. Well-presented, well-documented, and well-argued, this book is commendable and will greatly serve as a guide and quick reference for any researcher and supervisor of research. --Benedict L. K. Mwaibasa, Teofilo Kisanji University, Mbeya, Tanzania This introduction to research methods is extremely valuable and surprisingly thorough, although generally kept in an accessible form and language. I will definitely recommend this book to students in the humanities and social sciences. --Marius Timmann Mjaaland, Professor of Philosophy and Theology, Academic Director of PluRel: Interdisciplinary Studies of Religion in Pluralist Societies, University of Oslo Elia Shabani Mligo (PhD, University of Oslo, Norway) is Senior Lecturer in Research, Philosophy, and Religious Studies at Tumaini University Makumira, Mbeya Center in Tanzania. He is the author of many books and articles on contextual theology and research. 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At the same time, the book can be helpful for lecturers to instruct their students how to write effective course assignments in their respective courses. Writing Effective Course Assignments is well written and captures the basic skills that the majority of Tanzanian students are missing. To the majority of university students, organizing ideas and using literature in writing an assignment or an essay is a big challenge. I believe our students will need the knowledge presented in this book to improve not only their ways of responding to assignments, but also their general writing skills. --Ayoub Cherd Kafyulilo, Lecturer, Dar Es Salaam University College of Education Elia Shabani Mligo (PhD, University of Oslo, Norway) is Senior Lecturer at Tumaini University Makumira, Mbeya Center-Tanzania. He has authored many books and articles on contextual theology and research. 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One of the puzzles which they encounter at the college and university after reporting for studies is the course assignments offered to them by their lecturers, which demand them to be critical thinkers and argumentative essay writers. In most colleges and universities, lecturers provide to students broad questions to answer in the form of essays, either in group or individual assignments. How should they turn the broad assignment questions provided to them by their lecturers into specific researchable topics for essays? How should they handle literature in order to obtain valuable information to answer the provided question? How should they construct an informed and convincing argument using the collected information as evidence? This book concerns these and other related questions. With its clear illustrations, the book is designed to be a self-study guide and to offer solutions to many struggling students in colleges and universities. At the same time, the book can be helpful for lecturers to instruct their students how to write effective course assignments in their respective courses. Writing Effective Course Assignments is well written and captures the basic skills that the majority of Tanzanian students are missing. To the majority of university students, organizing ideas and using literature in writing an assignment or an essay is a big challenge. I believe our students will need the knowledge presented in this book to improve not only their ways of responding to assignments, but also their general writing skills. --Ayoub Cherd Kafyulilo, Lecturer, Dar Es Salaam University College of Education Elia Shabani Mligo (PhD, University of Oslo, Norway) is Senior Lecturer at Tumaini University Makumira, Mbeya Center-Tanzania. He has authored many books and articles on contextual theology and research. 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This largely undermines the contributions laypeople can offer from reading the Bible in their own contexts and from their own life experiences. Moreover, such exclusively scholarly reading conceals the role of biblical texts in dealing with current social problems, such as HIV\/AIDS-related stigmatization. Hence, the lack of lay participation in the process of Bible reading makes the Bible less visible in various common life situations. In this volume Elia Shabani Mligo draws on his fieldwork among people living with HIV\/AIDS (PLWHA) in Tanzania, selects stigmatization as his perspective, and chooses participant-centered contextual Bible study as his method to argue that the reading of texts from the Gospel of John by PLWHA (given their lived experiences of stigmatization) empowers them to reject stigmatization as unjust. Mligo's study shows that Christian PLWHA reject stigmatization because it does not comply with the attitude of Jesus toward stigmatized groups in his own time. 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The book probes the necessity for having two languages of instruction in the Tanzanian educational system. While Kiswahili, the native language, is predominantly understood by the majority of people, the discussion in this book indicates that most students in community secondary schools in Tanzania are incompetent in understanding, writing, listening, reading, and speaking English, a language they use in learning and doing their examinations, especially in the early stages of their secondary studies. The incompetence in the above-mentioned skills is mostly caused by their inability to cope with the abrupt transition in the languages of instruction from their pre-primary and primary school study  Kiswahili] to secondary school study  English]. Moreover, most teachers are unable to use the English language as a means to impart knowledge or facilitate learning to their students, leading them to code-switching and code-mixing. This book poses a challenge to countries whose students pass through a transition from one language of instruction to another in their educational systems, helping them to make appropriate decisions in regard to the appropriate language of teaching and learning. This book is succinctly sequential to earlier research done on the question of the language medium of instruction in Tanzania and elsewhere in Africa. . . . The book is a must read for educationalists regarding the delivery of knowledge in Africa and elsewhere where the language question continues to affect and haunt the teaching and learning process bound to the shackles of the use of former colonial languages as a means of instruction. --F. E. M. K. Senkoro, University of Namibia It is correctly argued that the low proficiency of the English language among students and teachers is responsible for poor performance in secondary school examinations. The government and stakeholders must take heed of the research findings and recommendations in this book since English will continue to be used as a teaching and learning language in schools in the country for a long time. The book is strongly recommended to policymakers, students, teachers and parents in Tanzania. --Uswege M. Minga, Tumaini University, Dar es Salaam College, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania Elia Shabani Mligo is Senior Lecturer at Tumaini University Makumira, Mbeya Teaching Center in Tanzania. Some of his books include Jesus and the Stigmatized (2011), Writing Academic Papers (2012), Doing Effective Fieldwork (2013), Elements of African Traditional Religion (2013), Symbolic Interactionism in the Gospel According to John (2014), He Descended into Hell (2015), Introduction to Research Methods and Report Writing (2016), and Writing Effective Course Assignments (2017). 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