Reference no: EM133037374

Detailed structure

Section 1: Introduction
Your introduction sets the scene and explains what the research is about and why it is of academic interest. In this section you should indicate what your theoretical base will be and briefly define any key terms. Finally, you will need to articulate your research focus. Use the following headings.

Brief Overview of your research

Start with a short paragraph that explains what you are proposing to do in your research. This brief paragraph helps the reader to understand what follows.

Identification of theoretical area and rationale for research
This section enables us to judge whether your research will have a sound theoretical foundation. This should be a coherent section that identifies your theoretical base and concepts (e.g. dark tourism, organisational commitment and mentoring etc), briefly describes and defines these, then looks at current issues, gaps and what you can therefore contribute to this field of knowledge.

- Briefly define/describe/discuss key concepts/theories/models as appropriate to your research
- What are the key and current issues/arguments/debates?
- Where are the gaps in the literature and where is there research to be done?
- What will your contribution be to research in this area?

Research Focus
This section needs to clearly articulate the focus of your research in the following forms:

- Aims and objectives
- Research questions
- Hypotheses (optional)

It is fairly easy to choose a broad topic and read around it. It is much harder to identify a small area of interest and define specific research questions that you are trying to answer (normally for qualitative work) or hypotheses that you will test (normally for quantitative work). We know that these are likely to be developed further as your research progresses, but we will be looking for evidence that you can define the focus of your study at this early stage and will have a clear direction to follow. We would normally suggest 2/3 research questions, 1 main aim and up to 5/6 objectives. If there are any more it is likely that you are not sufficiently focussed. Do not confuse the research question(s) with the questions that you may want to ask in your primary data collection - the research question(s) will be the overall question(s) you are trying to answer by doing the whole dissertation. The research questions/hypotheses should be clear and realistic.

Section: Literature review

A review of the literature that you have located and read so far What is the current thinking on the specific area of your research?

Underneath the table you can explain in more detail using the amount of words under each heading as appropriate to each assessment. For the first assessment we just need you to outline what you will do. For assessments 2 you should keep the table and your brief descriptions from Assessment 1 (amended as necessary after feedback) and then you also need to justify your choices, explaining why you have decided to collect data in this way and support these points with references to academic literature.

You need to explain how you will gather your primary data. We have given examples under each section to show you the sort of thing we require for Assessment 1 - these do not follow on from each other and link together - but yours will need to! These sections will expand with each assessment and you need to do this using the following headings.

Attachment:- Academic interest.rar