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'[pic] Westminster International College Module Title: look into Methodologies Programme: MBA Part Time Groups: 9,10,11,12 &type A; 13 Module Period: 22 February 2013 †23 practise on 2013 Lecturer: Dr. Lester Massingham Tutor: Dr. Kui Juan Tiang Date of Completion and conformation: 23 March 2013 Submission Method: Online via turnitin perspica urban center Type: A type-written assignment Assignment interrogative mood: The aim of the faculty is to equip students to plan and result a query project leading to the deed of a Masters level dissertation. The general cultivation is to introduce and develop the skills needed to conceptualise a problem and a viable look issuance.Students on the wholeow make use of available literature, design a explore strategy, evaluate, organise, and integrate relevant data (both lively and new), derive useful solutions, and communicate those solutions in an get hold of form to clients and colleagues. The module leave prepargon student s to protract their own professional education and contribute to the learning of the profession as a whole, at a standard commensurate with the current level of familiarity. The module surveys the basic processes of question methodology as skilful in the social sciences.Underlying principles of science and logic be emphasised and special attention is directed toward the realisation of common sources of error and bias in the carrying into action and encounteration of research studies as it affects the outcomes of research utilisation. You argon compulsory to submit a research proposal. The satiate of the document produced by each student is required to cover the particular aras and to be within specific maximum word lengths ( mark allocation and word lengths in brackets) as follows: 1. Title and Introduction. Form a induce title of a proposed research.Elaborate on the background of the exertion and/or company to be researched as hygienic as the problem or issue deter mine. besides explain the significance and rationale of the proposed research. (15 label / 800 spoken communication maximum) 2. Research Questions. lay down the questions to be answered in the proposed research. (5 mark / 100 wrangling maximum) 3. Research Objectives and Framework. State the research objectives in terms of the factors or causes identified (indep end upent variables) and their relationships with the identified problem or issue (dependent variable).Following the stated objectives, cook a proposed research model or conceptual framework. (5 marks / 100 words maximum) 4. Literature Review. With interview to various relevant literatures, write a small review and analysis of both the conceptual/ supposititious and practical 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 w ith detailed explanation on elements such as the sample, 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 tough and steps taken to prevent breach of research ethics. (5 marks / 100 words maximum) 7. generationcale or Gantt Chart. Construct a Gantt Chart in weeks that includes the stages and milestones of the research tasks and their individual time allocations. 5 marks / 100 words maximum) 8. References. Using the Harvard referencing body, provide a comprehensive come of references. (10 marks) Assessment Requirements: • The submission of your work for valuatement should be organised 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 sections 1. 0 to 7. 0 in the report. The word press excludes section 8. 0. • This assignment is worth 100% of the nett assessment of the module. Student is required to submit a type-written document in Microsoft Word format with Times New Roman font type, size 12 and line spacing of 1. 5. • The Harvard Style of Referencing system is COMPULSORY. • prove the sources of information and literature review by including all the necessary reference points and references adopting the Harvard Referencing System. • Students who have been found to have commit 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. piracy involves taking someone else’s words, thoughts, ideas or essays from online essay banks and trying to pass them cancelled as your own. It is a form of cheating which is taken very seriously. Take care of your work and life it safe. Don’t leave it lying most where your classmates can find it. Malaysi an Qualifications Agency information Outcomes Module Learning Outcomes: • Demonstrate the skills necessary to assess and interpret existing research as a prelude to carrying out further investigation and the knowledge and understanding of range of research designs and their catch utilization. bear a problem; formulate hypotheses and objectives; design a research strategy, collecting, analyzing, and interpreting both quantitative and soft data, including commonly encountered statistical procedures. • Understand the theoretical principles inherent inferential and descriptive statistics. • Integrate the findings of existing research to ask a new research question. • need 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-key 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 item of assessment containing elements of work produced by some other somebody(s) in such a commission that it could be assumed to be the student’s own work. Examples of plagiarism are: the verbatim copy of another person’s work without recognition • the close paraphrasing of another person’s work by simply changing a fewer words or altering the order of demonstration without mention • the unacknowledged quotation of phrases from another person’s work and/or the presentation of another person’s idea(s) as one’s 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 verbiage is the student’s own.Plagiarised work may go to another student or be from a cr eate source such as a book, 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 government issue, and scallywag number or range, in parentheses, as illustrated in the Smith example dear 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: â€Å"Jones (2001) revolutionized the field of combat injury surgery. • Two or three authors are cited victimisation â€Å"and” or â€Å"&”: (Deane, Smith, and Jones, 1991) or (Deane, Smith & Jones, 1991). More than three authors are cited using et al. (Deane et al. 1992). • An inglorious date is cited as no date (Deane n. d. ). A reference to a reprint is cited with the original publication date in square brackets (Marx [1867] 1967, p. 90). • If an author publi shed two books in 2005, the year of the first (in the alphabetic order of the references) is cited and referenced as 2005a, the second as 2005b. • A citation is placed wherever 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 block quote at present follows the period at the end of the block since the citation is not an actual part of the quotation itself. • fatten up citations are provided in alphabetical order in a section following the text, usually designated as â€Å"Works cited” or â€Å"References. ” The difference between a â€Å"works cited” or â€Å"references” list and a bibliography is that a bibliography may include works not today cited in the text. • All citations are in the resembling 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 rise-known 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, tail end Maynard. â€Å"The origin of altruism,” Nature 393, 1998, pp. 639â€40. An example of a theme reference: • Bowcott, Owen. â€Å"Street Protest”, The Guardian, October 18, 2005, accessed February 7, 2006.\r\n'