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BUS606 Business Research Proposal and Literature Review Assignment - Excelsia College, Australia
Assessment Title - Literature Review
Learning Outcomes -
(a) Demonstrate an advanced ability to initiate and prepare an original research proposal.
(b) Demonstrate an advanced ability to prepare a literature review based on the support of an original research proposal.
(c) Demonstrate a critical appreciation of the ethical issues associated with an original research proposal and their implications for the research and the acceptability of the research by an ethics review committee.
(d) Critically evaluate the coherence, relevance and methodological merits of a given body of literature.
(e) Demonstrate a critical understanding of the theoretical, practical and professional contexts and significance of the research.
Prepare a literature review that identifies and discriminates between concepts, issues, key findings and relevant theories most pertinent to the research proposal which the review supports.
Assessment Task - Students will submit a literature review for their chosen project.
Your review should be shaped by your argument and should seek to establish your theoretical orientation, along with your methodological choices. Your review needs to conclude with what you have demonstrated as a 'need for research' in the area.
This literature review needs to be organized with sub-headers in a meaningful manner based on your topic. The language used in a literature review is often evaluative and demonstrates your perspectives of the literature in relation to your question. Your 'voice' or your perspective, position or standpoint, should be identifiable in the literature review.
It is important that, firstly, your theoretical position is clearly and strongly stated and that your critical evaluations are an integral part of this. Secondly, it important that your language indicates your own or other writers' attitudes to the question or issue. The literature review always ends with a research question.
You may follow the outline below -
Title of literature review: In not more than 20 words state the title of your literature review.
Introduction - Provide an overview of the literature review. Indicate the objectives of the literature review.
Literature review - Use relevant headings and sub-headings to organize your literature review.
Conclusion - Your conclusion should provide a summary of the literature and show the gaps in the literature.