Design in Urdu Research: An Analysis of Urdu Theses of Pakistani Universities

The article deals with the research design used in the universities of Pakistan for the discipline of Urdu language and literature. Urdu research design is different from that of other social sciences. Its style of chapterization, presentation, reporting and citation does not match any of the other disciplines. Formulation of hypothesis, research objectives and research questions are not made a part of the reports. Some of the theses even do not have any findings or conclusion. That is why these researches do not address the problems. The theses and dissertations do are not clear about achieving of the objectives and goals. For this study, fifty theses of Pakistani universities were randomly selected and analyzed to find out the strengths and flaws of their research design. Based on the findings, recommendations and suggestions for the improvement of the design have also been presented.