LW RESEARCH PROJECT - 5FMGOBHAK4

Table of Contents

This should be an automatic table of contents

Introduction

This should provide a brief overview of your topic together with the objectives of your research. Note that the last paragraph in your introduction could provide an outline of the structure of your research report (e.g. “The remainder of this research report is structured as follows: Section 1 discusses the rationale for the selection of this topic. Section 2 …”). (3 paragraphs)

Importance of the Study

Here you need to identify the factors that contribute to your research project selection. For example, your interest or experience, the topic is a current issue affecting people. (3 paragraphs)

Literature Review

Critically discuss the findings of other relevant publications in your research area. Use the Harvard style referencing at all time. You may use Google Scholar or other relevant materials for your research. (You must discuss at least 20 articles RELEVANT to your research – This might be equivalent to 20 paragraphs)

Theoretical Proposition/ Research specification

Based on the literature review, you will now formulate research questions. For example, there may be a general consensus among researchers (in your literature review) that recession has a negative impact on businesses. You may want to research on the impact of recession in a particular business, or industry, or even a region. Specify these research questions here – form paragraphs (2 – 3 paragraphs)

Research Approaches & Research Methods

Building on the research specification, you have to explain your chosen research approach (deductive and/or inductive). You also need to establish a step-by-step plan for your research (including techniques you will apply - questionnaires, interviews, observation - etc…). (5 – 6 paragraphs)

Preliminary results

If you have used questionnaires, for example, you may want to tell the reader how the process went. Did you get all questionnaire completed. What are the demographic characteristics of respondents, etc…

If you have used secondary data, did you get all data you were looking for? Present them here in tables.

Results and Discussion

In this section you have to discuss your findings. ENSURE that this discussion is in line with the research specification above

Limitation of the Research and Areas of Further Consideration

Here you need to explain why your results may not be valid and/or generalizable and what you suggest could be improved (1 – 2 paragraphs)

Conclusion

Appendices

References