It's a class presentation of the Dept. of Information Science & Library Management of University of Dhaka.

1. A RESEARCH PROPOSAL
ON
READING HABIT OF UNDERGRADUTE STUDENTS
UNDER ARTS FACULTY OF UNIVERSITY OF DHAKA

2. GROUP MEMBERS
Udita Helal (48)
Aparajita Rahman (38)
Sabera Binta Bashar (105)
Kazi Nashid Morsheda (47)
Mahfuza Aktar (37)

3. Introduction
Reading has been the passion of the greatest personalities of all
times. Humans have been reading since ages and thus words of
knowledge have been passed on through generations. The reading
habit influences in the promotion of one's personal development
in particular and social progress in general. Regular and
systematic reading sharpens the intellect, refines the emotions,
elevates tastes and provides perspectives for one's living; and
thereby prepares a person for an effective participation in the
social, religious, cultural and political life. Reading fires the
imagination of the person. It adds new sight to eyes and new
wisdom to mind.

4. In ‘reading habit’, we get two words ‘read- ing’ and
‘habit’. Reading is an action of a person who reads
and habit is a product of this action or learning.
Reading habit as we say not only defines the habit
of reading the textbook but also the habit of reading
Newspapers, Journals, Novels, Poetries, Magazines
and other reading materials. Nowadays, a common
allegation is raised that the reading habit is
decreasing. However, this research will try to assess
the reading habits among the undergraduate students
of Arts faculty in University of Dhaka.

5. Aims and Objectives
• This research work has the following objectives:
a)To investigate reading habits and attitudes toward reading among
undergraduate students of Arts faculty in University of Dhaka.
b)To find out the major interests in the reading habits of those students.
c) To find out if reading habit affects any development in their personal,
social and political viewpoint.
d) To examine the types of materials read or preferred by the students.
e) To find out what initiatives can be taken by the Central library Of
University of Dhaka and also by the students themselves to increase
their reading habit.

6. Literature Review
For our research proposal we have reviewed the following literatures-
“Reading is inseparably linked to learning. And learning leads to an overall
mental, professional, and human development. Reading not only gives
people new ideas, information, and insights, it also helps them to become
more complete in every aspect……. Therefore, reading is crucial for every
human being because it benefits people not in one way but several ways.
With the decline of the reading habit among young people, it is important to
find new ways to instill love for reading in their hearts and improve their
reading habit. This cannot be done overnight. It will take concerted efforts
from all quarters and the creation of an atmosphere conducive to reading at
home, educational institutions, libraries, and workplaces, to bring back the
golden days of reading’’ (Reading Habit of Students in Social Sciences
and Arts: A Case Study of Rajshahi University , Akanda, A. K. M.
Eamin Ali; Hoq, Kazi Mostak Gausul; & Hasan, Nazmul. 2013)

7. “It is encouraging to know that the student community
awakened to read which will raise good citizens for the
country” (Reading Habits among Library and
Information Science Students of Annamalai University:
A Survey, S. Thanuskodi, 2011)
“Students were also asked where they got their main source
of reading materials. 3 1.1% (125) mentioned that they
derived the source of reading materials from the Internet.
This was followed by 27.6% (I 1 1) who got their materials
from UiTM library.”( A Survey of the Reading Habits
among UiTM Perlis Undergraduate Students, Associate
Professor Cheang Eng Kwong Puan Hajah Hasinah Bt
Othman Mrs Polamarasetty Deva Rajeswari ,October
2005)

8. Methodology
In this research we are going to use the Survey Method and
the data which we will collect will be qualitative and
quantitative both. Our data collection tool will be
Questionnaire. We are going to take 10% respondents out
of 2400 students from all the 16 departments under Arts
faculty of University of Dhaka. We will reach every
department under Arts faculty and take 10% of students
from every year by the stratified random sampling
technique where the entire population are initially divided
into different subgroups or strata, then the final respondents
are randomly selected proportionally from each strata.

9. Data processing and Analysis
After collecting the data through questionnaire we
will analyze that by using SPSS which is a
statistical data analyzing tool.

10. Anticipated research outcomes
After conducting the survey we may find the following results
a) Most of the students read only textbooks, few students like to read
things outside of the textbooks.
b) Their main interest may be reading novels, story books and poetry.
c) The point of view may be different who have the reading habit from
those who do not.
d) Most of the students may prefer printed form rather than digital
form.
e) With the expansion of modern technologies, especially the growing
popularity of social networking on the web, mobile phones, televisions,
and other means of entertainment , student's reading habit is undergoing
a decline

11. Anticipated Constraints
To fill up the questionnaire the samples may not
response willingly or sincerely sometime. They
may not fill up the full questionnaire. In that case
that questionnaire will be rejected.

12. Ethical Consideration
We will not force anyone to answer the
questionnaire and also make sure that all the
personal information of the respondents will be
confidential.

13. Project Timetable
To conduct this survey study we need 3 months.
Designing of the questionnaire 15 days
Data collection 45 days
Data analysis 15 days
Writing of the final report 15 days

14. THAT’S
ALL