Topic: Journal Articles Review – the research question and specific journal articles will be provided ii the zip file below. Choose at least three similar article and write a literature review. Students will be given specific directions relating to readings about a research topic. Students will need to compare and contrast what various authors say, and propose additional research on the same topic.
Presentation: 2500 +/-10% word critical review - Word .doc or .docx Title page, executive summary, table of contents, appropriate headings and subheadings, recommendations/findings/conclusions, in-text referencing and reference list (Harvard – Anglia style), attachments if relevant. Single spaced, font Times New Roman 12pt, Calibri 11pt or Arial 10pt
Marking scheme
Marking Guide: The following rubric will be used and the total mark scaled to a mark out of 20, please demonstrate you have learnt how to do a proper literature review and ask appropriate secondary research questions.
Task instructions
Bus701 literature review assignment: course description and task instructions
A brief discussion of the terminology used in these instructions.
Not all journal articles clearly state a -Research question- , not all journal articles have a section called “Literature review”, However the vast majority journal articles have both of these things.
*Someone writing a journal article should be able to summarize the objective article in a short paragraph, and someone reading it should quickly be able to work out the objective, some journal articles do this by clearly stating the research question
*A journal article will discuss previous studies a summarize what has been done and then identify a research gap, It will discuss some research that has not been done or it will discuss how to implement some research that has not been implemented., some journal articles do this by having a section called “Literature review”
If an article has new research the literature review makes it clear how the new research builds on existing research.
Some journal articles only do the literature review. In this case you could say the research question is
“summarize the existing literature and find the gap in the literature”
OVERVIEW
task: write a literature review using the articles provided on Moodle, You must use at least three of the journal articles given on moodle, You don’t have to use all of the journal articles, For example you do not have to use any of the articles related to plagiarism at all, you could just focus on the articles that discuss how accounting graduates lack certain skills
*worth 20% of your final grade, 2500 words
Referencing
Use Harvard referencing
*Make sure cite references in the other parts of your assignment the references are on your reference list.
You are NOT allowed to cite references you have not read.
You are NOT allowed to cite references that are not on your reference list, even if you make clear they are second hand references, For this type of assignment second hand references are totally inappropriate.
Format of the assignment
Coversheet
It should have the following details
Names of student
Student number
Subject: Bus701 research methods
Assignment: Literature review
Title
come up with a title that gives an idea of what research question/research topic/narrow subject areayou are reviewing, If you look at the titles of the journal articles given on moodle that should give you a good understanding of what is appropriate.
Executive summary /abstract
Briefly describe the research question/research topic/narrow subject areaand research gap. In other words, clearly explain what your research question/research topic/narrow subject areais and explain what NEW research could be done.
Introduction
why the research question is a question worth answering. In other words, Describe the benefits of doing research on research question/research topic/narrow subject area
For this section you can use references taken from any from any source.
Body
Review the literature
For this section you must use at least 3 of the references on moodle
(the same files are available from)
https://app.box.com/s/jiz6hq7rpdlbjpsz6mk4ttvdaf2xegsa
and between 1 and 3 journal articles you find yourself
Conclusion
Your conclusion must include a discussion of the following points.
1) what the research gap in your review might be suited to a line of qualitative research investigation;
2) what “how & why?” style secondary research question might be used to fill that gap; and
3) three subsequent semi-structured, open interview questions that could be used to get resolution of that secondary research question.
References
Use Harvard references,
The references of the journal articles available
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