This document summarizes a PhD coursework presentation on research methodology and mechanics of writing. It discusses topics like spelling, punctuation, capitalization, italics, numbers, abbreviations, and things to avoid in academic writing. It also covers sentence types and provides examples of punctuation like commas, semicolons, colons, dashes, apostrophes, and quotation marks. The presentation was given by Pandya Mehal Jitendrabhai on their PhD topic relating to culture, religion and politics in detective fiction.