Reference no: EM132354151 , Length: word count:1000
Business Research Project Assignment - Reflective Journal
Purpose - The purpose of this assessment is to ensure each student is able to document a critical reflection of their personal learning process, as experienced during this unit.
Assignment Specifications -
Purpose: This unit aims to give you an opportunity to combine many facets of your acquired MBA skills into the production of a high-quality research project.
Assignment the Individual Reflective Journal - is to ensure each student is able to contribute to document a critical reflection of their personal learning process, as experienced during this unit. It will be best to build your journal progressively, by making notes each week, starting at week 1 and going through to week 12. Your notes will serve as a reminder of what you learnt and how you experienced the learning process.
A significant aspect of the learning journal will be your reflections on how well your team co-operated in the various phases of the Business research Project, i.e. Topic Approval, Literature Review, Methodology sections, Project Report.
Assignment Structure should be as the following:
1. Topic identification, problem definition, research question, writing of topic approval submission.
2. The literature review - search process, summarising relevant articles, designing the outline of the literature review, writing up the literature review.
3. Research methodology - discussions about methods, sampling, questionnaire, data analysis and interpretation.
4. Distilling the findings from the data.
5. Writing up the Project Report.
6. Reflecting on the research experience, insights gained, teamwork.
Reflections about each of the following:
Topic identification, problem definition, research question, writing of topic approval submission.
The literature review - search process, summarising relevant articles, designing the outline of the literature review, writing up the literature review.
Research methodology - discussions about methods, sampling, questionnaire, data analysis and interpretation.
Distilling the findings from the data.
Writing up the Project Report.
Reflecting on the research experience, insights gained, teamwork.