Develop your research skills and critical thinking abilities

Reference no: EM133699054

Assessment - Article for different audiences (Master Research Report)

You are employed as a junior Research Assistant at ‘Fasttrack IT company' that specialises in Virtual Reality Technology. Your supervisor has been asked to mentor you to develop your research skills, critical thinking abilities and equip you with the skills to undertake scoping reviews. ‘Fasttrack IT company' has customers from a variety of domain and frequently uses scoping reviews to gain a quick and broad understanding of their customer's domain. As part of your training/induction, your supervisor has asked you to undertake a scoping review on a topic that is of interest to you.

You have been asked to deliver the following artefacts/deliverables:

Task 1: Choosing your research topic and keywords identification

Choosing a topic to investigate
Select an article to learn about the cutting-edge research and news on your selected topic. You may read more than one article on your selected topic.
What is your selected topic?
Write a brief description (one paragraph) about what you discovered from the article you read and how this new technology might affect your future IT career.
What are the keywords you identified which you can use in your scoping review?

Task 2: Undertake a scoping review
you will receive marks when you write the manuscript.
Undertake a scoping review on your selected topic to get an idea on some of the innovations being implemented and in development.
Your method should include the following:
Constructing a search string to find information about your topic? You will need to include the keywords you identified in Task 1.
Choose ONE database which you think will have most relevant information.
What are your inclusion criteria?
What are your exclusion criteria?

Task 3: Write the manuscript

Manuscript word count
Word count: 2000
Your manuscript should include the following:
Description of the emerging technology.
What the future holds for this technology.
What is the impact of this technology for your future IT career.
What is the impact of this technology for a chosen discipline (e.g., health, engineering, teaching etc.).
Overall impact of this technology at societal level.
You may discuss any other interesting features and points.
Your manuscript writing, should use the following format:
Introduction
Method - Scoping review
Search string and explanation on the process of constructing the search string
Explanation on the process of choosing a database
Inclusion and exclusion criteria
PRISMA flow diagram
No of articles screened.
No of eligible articles screened according to your eligibility criteria.
No of Included articles in the result synthesis and analysis.
Results
Should include a table summarising your key finding, trends.
Synthesise and analyse your results.
Discussion
Discuss the implications of your findings.
Discuss what the future holds for this technology.
Discuss what is the impact of this technology for your future career.
Discuss what is the impact of this technology at societal level.
Discuss any other pertinent points.
Conclusion
Overall presentation of the manuscript

Task 4: Referencing Requirements
References - use Harvard referencing style.
Use Turnitin

Task 5: 3-Minute Video Presentation
Record a 3-minute video presentation using Ms Teams.
You will need to upload this recording as part of your submission.
Create slides which you will use for your presentation. You will upload these slides.
Every minute you go overtime, 5 Marks will be deducted.
Your face and mouth need to be seen in the video recording.
See Appendix below for presentation marking rubric.

Task 5: Submission Instructions
Submit on FLO.
Upload the following files:
Task 1 (one PDF file)
Task 3 (one PDF file)
Video recording
Presentation slides used for video recording (PDF)

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