Assignment Task
This research report writing assessment is intended to identify your critical thinking, analysis, evaluation and writing skills on the basis of substantial evidence that you research, using recent, relevant and authentic research literature.
In this report, you are required to identify a topic of your interest within your area of study. This interest might stem from an initial problem that you have identified or simply something that you would like to learn more about. This assessment is based on an ongoing task to build your familiarity of various approaches to research framework and methods to help you build your familiarity of the research literature on a specific field.
Assessment
1. Identify and describe one research topic. With appropriate justification, explain the purpose and significance of this research, in particular what are you trying to achieve and the problem the research will solve in relation to prior literature on the field. For instance, based on examining the literature within your proposed topic in Part One, you should have identified potential gaps or possible extensions for research. Remember to support your arguments by using academic references. Formulate a broad research question that lends itself to different methods.
2. Explain ONE research framework that you could use to address your research question. Choose either a quantitative or a qualitative research method. Your chosen method must be different from the one you use in your “Presentation on selected research method” assignment task. The research you suggest must be feasible to conduct as a one semester long student project to examine your topic of research.
3. Outline and justify the methods and approaches you will adopt to answer the research question. Explain the research paradigm that the research you are proposing belongs to.
4. Explain how you would collect (including sampling) and analyse the data. Evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of your proposed research framework.