3.1 The Research Process under Supervision

The consultation's discipline (the syllabus's own rule): the student in contact with the supervisor at least once every fifteen days — the direction sought, the progress shown, the form signed (the documented consultations: the record that becomes the recommendation's foundation). The rhythm's craft: the stages calendared — the sources collected (the first consultations), the reading-and-notes (the middle phase), the drafts reviewed (the writing phase), the presentation rehearsed (the final phase); each consultation with an agenda (the specific questions prepared — the supervisor's time honoured with the student's preparation). The sources' harvest (the legal research's world): the PRIMARY sources — the Constitution, the statutes (the current versions: the amendments checked), the rules and regulations, the NKP reports and the Supreme Court's decisions (the citation verified — the never-fake-a-case discipline), the Nepal Gazette, the committee reports; the SECONDARY — the textbooks, the commentaries, the journal articles, the theses, the comparative materials (the foreign law as the mirror, used with the Nepali focus kept); the empirical faces where the methodology promised them (the interviews, the data — the ethics of the fieldwork). The notes-and-synthesis craft: the notes taken with the citations (the page-and-source recorded from the beginning — the footnote's archaeology avoided); the synthesis: the sources organised by the research questions (the material marshalled to answer, not to decorate); the outline evolving (the…