Professional Project

Question Description

This is an individual, written assessment, to be completed in report format. You are required to write around 3,000 words (+/- 10%), excluding title page, preliminaries, tables, figures, reference list and appendices.

The report requires in-text referencing and a full reference list in APA style, with evidence that you have critically read and integrated a minimum of 30 suitable scholarly references. In order to successfully complete Assessment 2, you are required to carry out the investigation you have proposed in Assessment 1 and produce a professional research report that shows that you have followed through from finding a research question to answering that question and developing recommendations that arise from your findings. The report will follow the typical structure of aresearch report and will need to include the following:

• Project title
• Introduction (which must include some justification of your topic and your project's aim and research questions)
• Critical literature review
• A detailed presentation of how you carried out your project (commensurate with a Methods chapter)
• Findings from your secondary data analysis
• Discussion of findings in light of your previously reviewed literature
• Conclusion, including recommendations and limitations

• Title, background, definition, justification, aim and RQs -10%

  Title, background, definition, justification, aim and RQs present; ALL are consistent and presented in a superior manner

• Critical literature review – 10%

  Superior review of a justifiably good amount of suitable literature; excellent structure; critical throughout; clearly identifies gaps to be addressed for the LR in assessment 2, please remember the following:

  1. It is important that LRs are not purely processions of sentences like: Smith (2014)said this; Jones (2015) said that and Holmes (2012) argues something else. Instead, we want to see critical appreciation of what is actually IN these sources - that means you need to compare and contrast the content of dif f erent sources. This will also lead to you using the same ref erence multiple times across your LR section and referencing claims, not paragraphs.
• It is important you use sub-headings as this may become a rather large section that is easier to read with a clear structure.
• Methods-20%

  Superior presentation of how the secondary material was identified and analysed; both identification and analysis are addressed in detail to enable replication; excellent integration of methodological literature.

  1. Data collection:
  2. Data analysis:
• Finding and analysis- 20%

  Superior presentation of findings; excellent structure; fully consistent with aim and RQs; excellent integration of fully referenced secondary sources

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