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pic Westminster International College staff Title look into Methodologies Programme MBA Part Time Groups 9,10,11,12 & 13 Module Period 22 February 2013 23 March 2013 Lecturer Dr. Lester Massingham Tutor Dr. Kui Juan Tiang Date of Completion and Submission 23 March 2013 Submission Method On demarcation via turnitin Assessment Type A type-written assignment Assignment Question The work out of the module is to equip students to plan and conduct a interrogation project leading to the production of a Masters level dissertation. The general goal is to introduce and develop the skills needed to conceptualise a caper and a viable look topic.Students will make use of available literature, design a research strategy, evaluate, organise, and integrate relevant data (both existing and new), derive useful solutions, and communicate those solutions in an appropriate pulp to clients and colleagues. The module will prepare students to continue their own transactional education and contri ex actlye to the development of the profession as a whole, at a standard commensurate with the current level of knowledge. The module surveys the radical processes of research methodology as practised in the social sciences.Underlying principles of science and logic are punctuate and special attention is directed toward the recognition of common openings of error and bias in the implementation and recital of research studies as it affects the outcomes of research utilisation. You are required to submit a research proposal. The content of the chronicle produced by each student is required to cover the specific areas and to be within specific uttermost word lengths (marks allocation and word lengths in brackets) as follows 1. Title and Introduction. Form a clear backing of a proposed research.Elaborate on the background of the industry and/or company to be researched as well as the problem or issue identified. Also explain the signifi screwce and rationale of the proposed research . (15 marks / 800 words maximum) 2. Research Questions. Construct the questions to be answered in the proposed research. (5 marks / 100 words maximum) 3. Research Objectives and Framework. State the research objectives in terms of the factors or causes identified (independent variables) and their relationships with the identified problem or issue (dependent variable).Following the stated objectives, construct a proposed research model or conceptual framework. (5 marks / 100 words maximum) 4. Literature Review. With fiber to mixed relevant literatures, put out a critical review and analysis of both the conceptual/theoretical and mulish aspects of the identified problem/issue and factors/causes. (40 marks / 2,000 words maximum) 5. Research Methodology and Design. Elaborate the concept, types and approaches in research.Propose a research design for the research topic selected with detailed explanation on elements such as the standard, sample size, types and sources of information, collection methods and operationalisation or measurement of variables. (15 marks / 800 words maximum) 6. Ethical Considerations. Identify ethical issues involved and locomote taken to prevent breach of research ethics. (5 marks / 100 words maximum) 7. Timescale or Gantt Chart. Construct a Gantt Chart in weeks that includes the stages and milestones of the research tasks and their respective time allocations. 5 marks / 100 words maximum) 8. References. utilize the Harvard referencing system, provide a comprehensive list of references. (10 marks) Assessment Requirements The submission of your work for assessment should be set up and clearly structured in a report format as outlined in 1. 0 to 8. 0 above. Maximum word length allowed is 4000 words, which includes branchs 1. 0 to 7. 0 in the report. The word count excludes section 8. 0. This assignment is worth 100% of the final assessment of the module. Student is required to submit a type-written schedule in Microsoft Word form at with Times New Roman font type, size 12 and line spacing of 1. 5. The Harvard Style of Referencing system is COMPULSORY. Indicate the sources of information and literature review by including all the necessity citations and references adopting the Harvard Referencing System. Students who have been run aground to have committed acts of Plagiarism are automatically considered to have failed the completed semester. If found to have breached the regulation for the second time, you will be asked to leave the course.Plagiarism involves taking someone elses words, thoughts, ideas or essays from online essay banks and trying to pass them off as your own. It is a form of cheating which is taken real seriously. Take care of your work and keep it safe. Dont leave it lying around where your classmates can find it. Malaysian Qualifications Agency Learning Outcomes Module Learning Outcomes Demonstrate the skills necessary to assess and take care existing research as a prelude to carry ing out further investigation and the knowledge and pinch of range of research designs and their appropriate utilization. Conceptualise a problem formulate hypotheses and objectives design a research strategy, collecting, analyzing, and interpreting both quantitative and qualitative data, including commonly encountered statistical procedures. Understand the theoretical principles underlying illative and descriptive statistics. Integrate the findings of existing research to ask a new research question. Engage in critical thinking when reading and comprehending research articles. Choose the most appropriate statistical analyses, interpret results, and write up the results accurately and completely. Notes on Plagiarism & Harvard Referencing Plagiarism Plagiarism is passing off the work of others as your own. This constitutes academic theft and is a serious matter which is penalised in assignment marking. Plagiarism is the submission of an peak of assessment containing elements of work produced by a nonher soul(s) in such a way that it could be take for granted to be the students own work. Examples of plagiarism are the verbatim copying of another persons work without acknowledgement the close paraphrasing of another persons work by just now changing a few words or altering the regularize of presentation without acknowledgement the unappreciated quotation of phrases from another persons work and/or the presentation of another persons idea(s) as ones own. Copying or close paraphrasing with occasional acknowledgement of the source may also be deemed to be plagiarism if the absence of quotation marks implies that the phraseology is the students own.Plagiarised work may belong to another student or be from a published source such as a give, report, journal or material available on the internet. Harvard Referencing The structure of a citation under the Harvard referencing system is the authors surname, year of publication, and page number or range, in pa rentheses, as illustrated in the Smith example near the top of this article. The page number or page range is omitted if the entire work is cited. The authors surname is omitted if it appears in the text. Thus we may say Jones (2001) revolutionized the field of trauma surgery. Two or three authors are cited exploitation and or & (Deane, Smith, and Jones, 1991) or (Deane, Smith & Jones, 1991). More than three authors are cited using et al. (Deane et al. 1992). An unknown date is cited as no date (Deane n. d. ). A reference to a reprint is cited with the accepted publication date in square brackets (Marx 1867 1967, p. 90). If an author published two books in 2005, the year of the number 1 (in the alphabetic order of the references) is cited and referenced as 2005a, the second as 2005b. A citation is placed wheresoever appropriate in or after the sentence.If it is at the end of a sentence, it is placed before the period, but a citation for an entire stopover quote immediately follows the period at the end of the block since the citation is not an actual part of the quotation itself. Complete citations are provided in alphabetical order in a section following the text, usually designated as Works cited or References. The difference among a works cited or references list and a bibliography is that a bibliography may include works not directly cited in the text. All citations are in the same font as the main text. Examples Examples of book references are Smith, J. (2005a).Dutch Citing Practices. The Hague Holland Research Foundation. Smith, J. (2005b). Harvard Referencing. London Jolly Good Publishing. In giving the city of publication, an internationally long-familiar city (such as London, The Hague, or New York) is referenced as the city alone. If the city is not internationally well known, the country (or state and country if in the U. S. ) are given. An example of a journal reference Smith, John Maynard. The origin of altruism, Nature 393, 1998, pp. 63940. An example of a newspaper reference Bowcott, Owen. Street Protest, The Guardian, October 18, 2005, accessed February 7, 2006.