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HI6008 Business Research Project
Assessment: Report on Literature Review
Literature Review
This assessment item seeks to ensure that all students enrolled in the Capstone Unit - Business Research Project - are competent at sourcing relevant and current literature using academic search portals, such as Pro-Quest, and other places where high quality secondary data resides.
Furthermore, this assessment requires students to not only read and summarise what other authors have already established, but also to become skilful at weaving together complementary or contrasting arguments relevant to their approved topic, research problem, and research question(s). This assignment builds on and extends the topic that was selected for Assignment 1.
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 2 - the Literature Review - is designed to ensure that each team member masters the skills of searching, locating, reading, summarising, and using relevant academic literature as secondary data to support a compelling discussion of factors central to the identified and specified research problem and crafting an‘argument' that brings the reader closer to a prospective answer to the specified research question(s).
Your tutor will FACILITATE the process, week by week, in the tutorials, BUT remember that this is a ‘learn-by-doing' unit, in which you will spend a significant amount of tutorial time discussing and practising research skills. The learning will be progressive, so for best results you will need to be listening to the weekly recorded lectures as well as participating in the interactive tutorials and using the discussion board to interact with other students in your cohort.
[note that you are not expected to solve the research problem entirely from secondary data, just to demonstrate sufficient context to be able to plan the methodology phase of your research, which is assignment 3]
Assignment Structure should be the following:
1. Cover Page
2. An opening statement of the Research Problem (RP) and Research Question(RQ) - your explanation of these should at this stage be more detailed than what you wrote in your Topic Approval and identification of appropriate body of existing knowledge. (see Marking Rubric row 1)
3. Discussion of major theories, models or streams of influence relevant to the RQ. This provides evidence that you are able to find literature relevant toa deeper understanding of your Research Question (RQ) as well as a model or theory that will support your quest to answer it. (see Marking Rubric row 2)
4. Quality of Literature cited, drawing the reader's attention to any contrasting views expressed in prior research in this area and give your view of how differing opinions can be brought together to help answer the research question and ultimately resolve the research problem.(see Marking Rubric row 3)
5. Discussion of current state of knowledge, with logical structure. (see Marking Rubric row 4)
6. Evidence of understanding, flow, and academic argument. (see Marking Rubric row 5)
7. Converge on how this literature review has brought you closer to an answer to your research question(s). (see Marking Rubric row 6)
8. Ensure all in text citations are correctly referenced. [10-12 academic sources are required]
9. Add a comprehensive List of References, in Holmes adapted Harvard referencing style.[Students please be warned that errors in referencing attract suspicion of plagiarism/academic misconduct and may require detailed investigation. Note: fake referencing is academic fraud and will result in a report of Academic MisconductIt is always essential that academic integrity is upheld. Don't take a chance!]
10. Append a statement indicating ‘who wrote which sections of this report'
Attachment:- Report on Literature Review.rar