Guest lecture on ‘ RESEARCH WRITING’ at Faculty of Architecture adayalampattu phase II campus. It was great knowledgeable session, the participants from all the diciplines from M.arch had a much useful interactive session with the guest. The essential components or building blocks of research writing are the same no matter what kind of question you are answering or what kind of reader you are assuming as you share your answer. Research = the physical process of gathering information + the mental process of deriving the answer to your question from the information you gathered. Research writing = the process of sharing the answer to your research question along with the evidence on which your answer is based, the sources you