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Assessment task 1: Critical literature review, problematisation and envisioned contribution

The purpose of this task is to critically review the body of knowledge on your topic of interest, problematize the current body of knowledge, and articulate your envisioned contribution to help solve this problem.

The assessment task consists of two parts:

? The first part consists of critically reviewing the body of knowledge that already exists on the topic you have identified in Assessment task 1. Those studying OHSE must choose an OHSE related topic for their literature review. The purpose of the literature review is not to merely to summarize extant knowledge, but rather to critically analyse and meaningfully organise the scholarly literature on the topic.

This literature should primarily consist of 10-15 scholarly articles, the majority of these articles should be post-2010, and should be published in high-quality, peer-reviewed journals. These may be complemented with other trustworthy, non-academic evidence, such as research reports or policy documents. In the literature review, you need to include a discussion about the accepted facts in the area, the main constructs and variables that are important and the relationships between them;

? Second part: based on your critical literature review, you will then need to problematize our current body of knowledge. What is incomplete, incorrect, and inconsistent about our knowledge on the topic? What implicit assumptions are made in the research on this topic?

What gaps are there in the literature and why are they problematic? You will then need to subsequently formulate (one or a few) tentative research questions that you may want to focus for the next assessment task - the research proposal - and make a compelling case for how and why answers to these questions would contribute to solving (some of) these problems in the literature. To achieve this, you will need to use the prescribed literature from week 4.

Throughout your literature review and envisioned contribution, you need to demonstrate that you can think critically and reflectively; show an understanding of the relevant literature in the topic area, taking local and international perspectives into account, locate, organise, analyse, synthesise and evaluate information; and demonstrate effective communication in written English language.

Assessment Task 2 : Critical literature review, problematisation and envisioned contribution.

The midsection of a research proposal is its literature review. A strong literature review not only summarizes and integrates the knowledge base on a subject, but also identifies aspects of the knowledge base that are problematic-inadequate, incorrect, inconsistent, or incommensurate with reality. Ultimately, your research question should focus on addressing one of these problems with our current knowledge.

Your task for the second assessment is to (1) summarize and integrate the knowledge base on your substantive topic, i.e. your literature review itself; (2) persuasively problematise some of the knowledge on your topic; and (3) explain the procedures you used to create a high-quality literature review, as discussed in the unit.

These elements of your assignment map directly onto the marking rubrics (shown on pp. 15-17 of the unit outline). Criteria 1 and 2 refer to your literature review section. Criteria 3 refers to your problematisation and contribution section. Criteria 4 refers to how you use the unit's materials on crafting a high-quality literature review.

Recommended structure:

• Use the first section to summarize and integrate what we know about the topic of interest. A strong and comprehensiveliterature review will cover: definitions, prevalence, importance,correlates, contexts, typical research designs, and measurement. Remember, literature reviews arepersuasive documents. Integrate your literature review by convincingly making 4-5 important points about the state of knowledge in the area. The body of literature in an area form a scholarly conversation. Distinction- and high distinction-level submissions will describe how this conversation has evolved over time, and indicate where the conversation seems to be going next.

• Use the second section to problematise one or two things in the knowledge base on your chosen topic. Describe what is wrong with what we already know. What is inconsistent, incorrect, or inadequate about existing scholarly knowledge? In other words, in what way is this body of knowledge incommensurate with itself, with reality, or with your experiences? Make a persuasive case for your ‘problematisation' of existing knowledge by using other journal articles (compulsory) and occasional trustworthy non-academic sources (optional but preferred).The more persuasive your argument, the higher your mark.

o Your final paragraph in this section should focus on scholarly contribution. Your problematisation will determine how your proposed study makes a scholarly contribution. Make a case for why it is important to solve the problem you've identified in the literature, and show how the body of knowledge is advanced by fixing this problem.

• Use the third section (1-2 paragraphs) to link your literature review back to principles in the unit's readings. Identify the guidelines for crafting a good literature review (as covered in the course readings) and explain how you implemented those guidelines. Just as in the first assessment task, whenever you draw on criteria from the readings, please be explicit.