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ICT is fast-growing and changing field. A lot of researches are being done in various area of ICT, and results are presented in various platforms like conferences, journal and books. This is common observations in the publications from developing countries (especially in sub – Saharan africa) are not being published in reputed and established publishers even their technical/experiments are good. This is due to lack of several factors including professional presentation, the novelty of the topic, quality of literature review etc. This work guides final year bachelor’s students, PG students (masters and PhD) and young researchers, especially working in computing-related disciplines, on how to convert their project works into quality publications. The authors provide details on how these researchers can select suitable project topics, do a proper review, write up the key components of a paper and present their results in an appropriate form (that is, writing style starting from abstract to conclusion). This paper also presents and guides on how to write various types of review papers.
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Systematic Way of Selection of Article for Review
The systematic review process and selection of the relevant articles at different stages is illustrated in the PRISMA flow chart as shown in Fig. 4.
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Misra, S. (2021). A Step by Step Guide for Choosing Project Topics and Writing Research Papers in ICT Related Disciplines. In: Misra, S., Muhammad-Bello, B. (eds) Information and Communication Technology and Applications. ICTA 2020. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1350. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-69143-1_55
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