ITECH5500 Research Proposal Assignment 
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Task: Research Proposal- Mini Research Project
Due Date: Week 8 – Friday January 16, 2014, 11:55 pm
Worth: 10% (10 marks)
Objectives
The purpose of this assessment is to enable students to develop an effective research plan considering context, research questions, sources, timeline, and larger implications for writing a formal research report; Also to practice working with the Research Proposal as an academic genre and to provide an opportunity for working on stylistics and effective academic discourse.
Background
The research proposal will form a foundation for the final research report. It provides a detailed description of the proposed research project, and is like an outline of the entire research project.
Requirements
Each student is required submit a research proposal (1500-2000). The purpose of this task is to assist students to plan, prepare and write a scholarly paper at an appropriate standard for this level of study. It should demonstrate an ability to communicate ide.6+as and information at a professional level, and be written it in a form that can be used to build on for the final research report.
You have worked with your research question(s) for several weeks by now, you may have an idea of how you want to study that question(s). If so, start drawing up a brief plan. Use the following heuristics to generate information to design your study to guide you to do so.
Study your question-
What object (people, places or things) does it suggest you need to study?
What kind of study does the question suggest (empirical--e.g., ethnography, case study, descriptive study, experimental; historical--oral or archival or both; theoretical; discourse or textual analysis, etc.)?
What data do you need to collect? (artifacts, texts, people doing something, interviews, etc.)
How will you analyse the data? (qualitative? quantitative? hermeneutics? discourse analysis? historical? etc.)
Be very specific in both the data you will examine
Task: Research Proposal- Mini Research Project
Due Date: Week 8 – Friday January 16, 2014, 11:55 pm
Worth: 10% (10 marks)
Objectives
The purpose of this assessment is to enable students to develop an effective research plan considering context, research questions, sources, timeline, and larger implications for writing a formal research report; Also to practice working with the Research Proposal as an academic genre and to provide an opportunity for working on stylistics and effective academic discourse.
Background
The research proposal will form a foundation for the final research report. It provides a detailed description of the proposed research project, and is like an outline of the entire research project.
Requirements
Each student is required submit a research proposal (1500-2000). The purpose of this task is to assist students to plan, prepare and write a scholarly paper at an appropriate standard for this level of study. It should demonstrate an ability to communicate ide.6+as and information at a professional level, and be written it in a form that can be used to build on for the final research report.
You have worked with your research question(s) for several weeks by now, you may have an idea of how you want to study that question(s). If so, start drawing up a brief plan. Use the following heuristics to generate information to design your study to guide you to do so.
Study your question-
What object (people, places or things) does it suggest you need to study?
What kind of study does the question suggest (empirical--e.g., ethnography, case study, descriptive study, experimental; historical--oral or archival or both; theoretical; discourse or textual analysis, etc.)?
What data do you need to collect? (artifacts, texts, people doing something, interviews, etc.)
How will you analyse the data? (qualitative? quantitative? hermeneutics? discourse analysis? historical? etc.)
Be very specific in both the data you will examine
References: Range of references (internet, articles, quotations, books and journals etc.) Correct use of citation and referencing University guide followed e.g. APA referencing /10 Total /100 Scaled out of 10 Marked by: