Assignment 2 requirements

Hi Team

As you may have noticed the assessmnet 1 (literature review) results are posted . Below is some general feedback:

- Most students submitted their work in essay formats.

- So many students gave very little in-text references, some not at all. The ones which did provide intext references, mostly provided one per paragraph: this is NOT a comparative analysis. You must compare literature, not just state it. Most students gave articles with long sections without intext references.

- Some students gave me headings as per the assessment criteria, e.g. a section called "comparative analysis" and "quality and currency of literature". This is incorrect. The whole literature review is a comparative analysis which contains quality and current references.

- Some students referenced wikipedia. This is not an academic source of reference.

- Lack of academic articles, some students only gave industry references.

- There were regular errors in intext referencing formats. For example, full stops before and after references which renders confusion as to which sentence the reference pertains to.

- Some students gave direct quotes without appropriate pages numbers in the references, e.g. ("Smith 2010, p.6"). Some students gave page numbers without direct quotes.

- Most students made many spelling, grammar and syntax errors. PLEASE DO ERROR CHECKS BEFORE SUBMISSIONS.

- There are many cases of inconsistent referencing formats.

- Some students provided no bibliography.

- Too much emotive , e.g. "strongly", "huge" etc. .... avoid emotive language, let the reader judge.

- Too much use of personal pronouns such as "I", "we", "you" ..... 

- Long paragraphs need to be broken down.

- Lack of charts, table and diagrams.

- Inconsistent formats including fonts and spacing.

- Some students plagiarised heavily. One student even submitted my personal work.

- Some students submitted work which doesn't even stack up to an essay - UNACADEMIC all together.

- Some work was well below the 2 000 - 2 500 words.

This  feedback is not meant to be difficult but realistic. See me if you have any further questions.

Your ever faithful Lecturer

Inadequate bibliographic citations - you could not find any academic references?

Very little intext citations - long stretches without.

No clear gaps identified for further investigation.

All HI6008 Students Enrol in the Semester 1/2017 need to follow below Assignment structure:

1. Introduction

2. Project Objective

3. Project Scope

4. Literature Review

(Students’ needs to summarize Assignment 1 literature review (2-3 pages) and do justification from Assignment 1 literature problems, gaps opportunities, Hypothesis

5. Research Questions/Hypothesis

- Primary Question (only one question)

- Secondary Questions (1, 2 ….)

Research questions should be linked to Literature Problems, Gaps, and Hypothesis

6. Research Design and Methodology

Qualitative research

(Students should propose the Process of the Qualitative Research (Main Steps), Approaches to reliability and Validity, Sampling, Sample Size, Data Collection Method, Variables Specifications)

Quantitative research

Quantitative research

(Students should propose the process of the Quantitative Research Design Process (Main Steps), Research Instrument, Quantitative Data Analysis Process, Sampling and Simple Size, Interviewing and Questionary Design, Reliability and Validity of Data) 

7. Research Limitations

8. Time Schedule (Research plan)

9. Conclusion

10. Reference List

11. Appendix

NOTE: Students are not with requirements to collect and analyze data