ASSIGNMENT 2: LITERATURE REVIEW AND RESEARCH DESIGN

2000 words ± 10%
Learning outcomes 3-5
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Note: All students are required to submit this assignment.Task description & requirements

Continue with the research topic and proposal from assignment 1. Make sure you make necessary revisions if this is suggested in the assignment feedback. Conduct a full literature review, and based on the literature review, develop the research design for your research project. This assignment covers two main parts of the project reports. The first part is the literature review, and the second part is the research design.

The following structure is suggested for assignment 2:

1. Title page
2. Abstract
3. Table of contents
4. Chapter 1: Introduction (based on your assignment 1, i.e. background, research aims,and research questions, expected outcomes and contributions, proposed structure ofthe report)

1. Chapter 2: Literature review
2. Chapter 3: Research design (including three subsections for the conceptualframework, data collection, and analysis methods respectively)
3. References list

There is no requirement for the number of references. Instead, the researcher should ensure that the full literature review in Chapter 2 covers at least the main references relevant to the research topic. In your literature review chapter, clearly explain what key words and databases have been used to search for relevant studies for your literature review.

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The research design/methodology in Chapter 3 should explain and justify your research conceptual framework (if any) and your data collection and analysis methods. It is essential to show how all of these have benefited from the literature review presented in Chapter 2.

See the Essay/report assessment criteria sheet on the following page for information about the criteria and the standards by which your work will be judged.

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Assignment #2 feedback form: JNB728 Industry Research Project

Assessment criteria	High Distinction*	Distinction*	Credit*	Pass*	Fail*
1. Literature review
1.1. Comprehensi veness	Very comprehensive and thorough	Extensive	Some studies missing or not appropriately reviewed	Significant lapses in appropriately reviewing literature	Literature poorly reviewed
1.2. Depth	Very profound review and critical evaluation of the existing studies, their methods, and findings	Well thought review of the existing studies and their research methods and findings	Basic study methods covered but lack of in-depth evaluation and or some key studies	Descriptive, summary, and lack of depth and some details	Confusing and lack of many details
2. Research design
2.1. Conceptual framework	Innovative, well designed and effective research conceptual framework Well-presented and supported by the literature	Sound research conceptual framework Well-presented and supported by the literature	A research conceptual framework Well presented with some support by the literature	A research framework presented with some errors or not well presented or supported by literature	Research framework not well designed, not relevant and poorly supported by the literature
2.2 Data collection method	Highly consistent with data sources	Mostly consistent with data sources	Occasionally inconsistent	Frequently inconsistent	Generally ignores the consistence with data sources
2.3. Data analysis method	Highly reasonable and feasible	Mostly reasonable and feasible	Generally reasonable with some outcomes unreasonable or infeasible	A number of outcomes unreasonable or infeasible	Generally unreasonable or infeasible
3. Logical structure, organisation & succinctness of writing	Highly effective, logical structure Highly effective, clear & coherent flow of ideas	Sound structure Effective, clear & coherent flow of ideas	Adequate structure Sufficient flow of ideas	Organisation ineffective Aspects unclear/illogical	No meaningful organisation Generally illogical & unclear
4. Presentation, style, formatting and references	Professionally presented Faultless application of prescribed style	Follows most requirements Prescribed style applied with very few errors	Basic, essential requirements followed Prescribed style applied with few errors	Significantly deviation from requirements Some inconsistence in application of prescribed style	Requirements largely ignored Incorrect referencing style