RESEARCH, PLANNING and COMMUNICATIONS
Research Practice
You are required to write a proposal of a small-scale research project. The project should be relevant to the subject that you are studying and should be completed by one researcher (yourself, full-time). Your proposed project should start on 1/5/2023 and finish on 31/10/2023 (6 months in total).
PART ONE [30 marks]
- Write an abstract of your proposed project with a project title [6].
- Write an introduction to the research area [4], problems to be addressed [4] and potential benefits to industry and/or society [4].
- Describe the aims [2], objectives [4] and scope (focus) of your project [2].
- Describe the novel points of your research (i.e., contribution to knowledge) [4].
PART TWO [40 marks]
- Obtain copies of 10 references that are of direct relevance to your project. Review the references and write your comments. For each reference, you should write one paragraph about its main contribution to knowledge [20], and one paragraph about its shortcomings [10]. You should not take the Abstracts and Conclusions directly from the
- Do NOT include the actual copies of the references in your report, use the Harvard referencing system to list the references at the end of your report, and cite the references in the main text [5].
- Based on your comments on the 10 references, write an overall summary of research [5]
- You should follow the above instructions. Do not follow the style of the ‘Background’ section of the example proposal used during
PART THREE [30 marks]
- Describe research techniques (e.g., case studies, data collection methods and equipment) that you would use to carry out the project [5]
- Make a work plan by defining the tasks [4] to be Schedule the tasks into phases [3] with milestones and deliverables [3] in a Gantt Chart [5].
- Describe the tasks [4], deliverables [4] and potential risks of your project [2] in your
SUBMISSION:
Submit your report in MicroSoft Word or PDF format including the Gantt Chart (in one single file).
NOTE:
- The font size of the main text should be 11, single line spacing. The margins of each page should be 2.54 cm on all sides. Your report including the list of 10 references should not exceed 10 pages (A4). The report should have a separate title page including the title of your proposal, your full name, student number and the Programme you are studying. The title page, table of contents (if you have one) and the Gantt Chart are not counted for the total 10-page
- Your report should not overlap with your final thesis, or any other published reports/documents by over 20%. You should avoid including the contents of this report (especially the literature review section) in your final thesis, otherwise you will have high
- You should make sure that similarity of your report can be checked, g., if you use WPS Office to save your report, it will appear as a PDF image in the system, and similarity cannot be checked. Reports without similarity checked will not be marked.
