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To enable students to:
0c Have knowledge of good research and professional practices
0c uppreciate the ethical and legal issues relating to research
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ut the end of this module, students will gain the following:
Knowledge:
1.c How to frame a research topic
2.c How to identify the nature and source of information needed to write a research proposal
3.c How to identify and apply appropriate research methods

Thinking skills:
1.c Critically reflect the ethical considerations of chosen research topic
2.c Critically reflect on collected data
3.c Constructively critique the research of others, identifying strengths and weaknesses in
technique, analysis and conclusions
Subject-based practical skills:
1.c Construct and implement a realistic research timetable
2.c Construct a literature review
Skill for life and work (general skills):
1.c Deliver a presentation on a chosen research topic

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Write a draft of a research proposal of maximum 2,000 words on a topic or problem you intend to
research for your final project and be ready to present it orally. You should include information
about the provisional title, background (why this is of interest to you and what its significance is
in the field of business and technology); preliminary literature review (giving a brief critical
review of the literature you have read in writing the proposal); research questions and
objectives; a research plan for your research (including your perspective design and methods of
research; your sampling strategy and numbers; how you will analyse and present the data);
ethical considerations; and timetable (including a Gantt chart).
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2.c Use Microsoft Word Œrocessor to develop your proposal and excel for graphical presentation.
3.c Give an outline power point presentation to demonstrate your research proposal.
4.c The average size of your research proposal draft is 2,000 words and a minimum of 10
power point slides.
5.c Submit a CD report, on the specified date in the plan.
6.c Collusion and Œlagiarism must be absolutely avoided.
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1.c Give a specification of a research problem from your field of interest.
2.c Give a clear description of your research problem
3.c Clearly specify the hypothesis of your research
4.c Design your own data collection method and mechanism
5.c unalyze and summarise the collected data
6.c Extract the statistical parameter(s) from your data
7.c Give a pictorial representation for your data and statistics
8.c Mark your statistic(s) on the pictorial presentation
9.c Give your own comments on the viability of the extracted statistic(s)
10.cGive your own conclusion(s)
11.cSubmit a sound report with critical analyses and formal references (2000 words) 50%
12.cŒresentation and Œersonal Development Œlan ( 15 mins prest. ŒDŒ (1000 words) 50%
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1.c Mark Saunders, udrian Thornhill and Œhilip Lewis, Research Methods for Business
Students, Fifth Edition, Œearson Education, 2008.
2.c Bell J, Doing your Research Œroject, Third edition, Open University Œress, 1999, ISBN:
0335203884
3.c Best J, Research in Education , Œrentice Hall, 1977, ISBN: 0137740182
4.c Cohen L and Manion L, Research methods in Education, RoutledgeFalmer,2000, ISBN:
0414195411
5.c Coolican H, Introduction to Research Methods and Statistics in
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6.c Elliott J, uction Research for Education Change, Open University Œress, 1991, ISBN:
0335096891
7.c Gill J and Johnson Œ, Research Methods for Managers, Second Edition, Sage Œublications,
2002, ISBN: 0761940022
8.c Hoinville G and Jowell R, Survey Research Œractice, uvebury, 1985, ISBN: 0566051567
9.c Kane E, Doing Your Own Research, Marion Boyars, 1977, ISBN: 0714530433
10.cLock D, Œroject Management, Gower publications, 2003, ISBN: 0566085518
11.cMarshall L, u Guide to Learning Independently, Second edition, FT Œrentice Hall, 2001,
ISBN: 0582811708
12.cMcNiff J, uction Research: Œrinciples and Œractice, RoutledgeFalmer, 2001, ISBN:
0415219949
13.cRobson C, Real World Research, Blackwell Œublications, 2002, ISBN: 0631213058
14.cSaunders M, Lewis Œ and Thornhill u, Research methods for business students, FT Œrentice
Hall, 2002, ISBN: 0273658042

Websites:

1.c http://www.acsu.buffalo.edu/~raulin/resmeth.html
2.c http://www.researchmethodsarena.com/resources/datasets
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