Assessment Details and Submission Guidelines
Trimester T1 2022
Unit Code HI6008
Unit Title Business Research Project
Assessment Type Individual
Assessment Title Assignment 4 - Reflective Journal with Personal Insights and evidence of ‘deep learning’
Purpose of the assessment (with ULO Mapping) The purpose of this assessment is to ensure each student is able to individually document a critical reflection of their personal learning process, as experienced during this unit.
Matches to Unit Learning Outcomes 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7
Weight 20 % of the total assessments
Total Marks 20
Word limit At least 1200 words (maximum 1320 words)
Due Date Before midnight on the Friday of Week 12, i.e. 10 June
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Submission Guidelines • All work must be submitted on Blackboard by 12 midnight on the due date, with a correctly and accurately-completed Assignment Cover Page, as one single document. [If no cover page -10% could apply. Late submissions attract penalties at the rate of -5% per day]
• The assignment must be in MS Word format, 1.5 spacing, 12-pt Arial font and 2 cm margins on all four sides of your page with appropriate section headings, paragraphing, and page numbers.
• Though it is NOT compulsory to cite other published work in this assignment, any reference sources that are used must be cited in the text of the report and listed appropriately at the end in a reference list, all using Holmes-adapted Harvard referencing style.

Assignment 4 Specifications
Purpose:
Assignment 4 - the Individual Reflective Journal - is designed to ensure each student is able to document a critical reflection of their personal learning process, as experienced during this unit. In preparation for this final submission, it is suggested that you make some notes (to yourself) each week, to remind you of how you were feeling and what struggles you were engaged in, so that by the end of the trimester those notes will serve as a reminder of which sections you were challenged by, and you can say what you learnt, and how you experienced the learning process.
Whilst your reflective journal will cover each phase of the Business Research Project, i.e. Topic Development, Literature Review, and Methodology, it is essential that your emphasis be on what you experienced, what challenged you personally, how you dealt with that and what you gained from it. It is NOT enough to just summarise what was done. This assignment must reflect and describe your own personal deep learning AND be authentic so as to convince the reader as to the extent of your integral engagement throughout the research process.
Think of this as if you were writing to a friend or family member, giving your honest views on your personal learning journey as an early researcher.
Assignment Structure should be as the following:
1. Based on my personal contribution to the topic selection, problem definition, research question, writing of topic development submission (including team charter, if applicable), how I experienced this, what challenges I faced, and what I learnt from that.
2. Based on my personal contribution to the literature review report, i.e. search process, summarising of relevant articles, designing the outline/argument/structure of the literature review, writing up the literature review, how I experienced this, what challenges I faced, and what I learnt from that.
3. Based on my personal contribution to the research methodology report, i.e. my role in discussions about methods, sampling, questionnaire design, data collection and analysis, how I experienced this, what challenges I faced, and what I learnt from that.
4. Based on my reflections of the total research process, the insights I gained and any issues, struggles, challenges, synergies I experienced, both individually and in the teamwork, how I experienced this, what challenges I faced, and what I learnt from that.

HI6008 Assignment 4 – Individual Reflective Journal - Marking Rubric
Excellent
5 Very Good
4 Good
3 Questionable
2 Unsatisfactory
0 / 1
Reflections about: topic identification, problem definition, research question, i.e. what you learnt whilst writing the topic approval submission and team charter
[Max 5 marks] Deep, insightful, well-stated, comprehensive capturing of essential learnings, feelings and future opportunities Good attempt at capturing essential learnings, feelings and future opportunities Satisfactory attempt at capturing essential learnings, feelings and future opportunities Questionable reflection of essential learnings, feelings and future opportunities Insufficiently reflective or not communicated
Reflections about: literature review, i.e. what you learnt while conducting the literature search process /summarising relevant articles/ designing the outline of the literature review/ writing up the literature review
[Max 5 marks] Deep, insightful, well-stated, comprehensive capturing of essential learnings, feelings and future opportunities Very good attempt at capturing essential learnings, feelings and future opportunities Good attempt at capturing essential learnings, feelings and future opportunities Questionable reflection of essential learnings, feelings and future opportunities Insufficiently reflective or poorly communicated
Reflections about: methodology, i.e. what you learnt through discussions about methods/ sampling/questionnaire design/ data analysis and interpretation
[Max 5 marks] Deep, insightful, well-stated, comprehensive capturing of essential learnings, feelings and future opportunities Very good attempt at capturing essential learnings, feelings and future opportunities Good attempt at capturing essential learnings, feelings and future opportunities Questionable reflection of essential learnings, feelings and future opportunities Insufficiently reflective or poorly communicated
Reflections about: the research experience, i.e. say what insights you gained, and any issues, struggles, challenges, synergies experienced, individually and in the teamwork
[Max 5 marks] Deep, insightful, well-stated, comprehensive capturing of essential learnings, feelings and future opportunities Very good attempt at capturing essential learnings, feelings and future opportunities Good attempt at capturing essential learnings, feelings and future opportunities Questionable reflection of essential learnings, feelings and future opportunities Insufficiently reflective or poorly communicated
Less Penalties Late submission: …………. Days @ -5% per day = ………………….
No cover sheet / incorrect / inaccurate / not single document @-10%
Non-compliant referencing @-10%
/20
Note: no part of your submission should contain the same words, phrases or sentences as your team members (collusion) OR be self-plagiarised from the contents of your previous group assignments 1,2 or 3. Do NOT make up or fabricate information. To do so is a breach of Academic Integrity and will result in a report of Academic Misconduct