Assessment Type: Journal Articles Review - 2500 +/- 10% word report. Group Assessment.

Purpose: To allow students to demonstrate their ability to research a research question by critically reviewing nominated literature related to the question. This contributes to Learning Outcomes a, b, c, d and e.

Topic: Journal Articles Review - the research question and specific journal articles will be provided in class and via Moodle by week 8 Task Details: 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 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.

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

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 group members:
Student numbers of group members:
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
You can start with a general and broad introduction to the topic but eventually explain 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

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.

Guide on how to use a computer program to find p-value, you need to do this in the assignment
for ANOVA (see pages 1 and 2) and chi square (see pages 3 and 4)
For example of chi squared test of independence the assignment question is similar to

Brief summary of the task.
• Worth 20%
• Group assignment, max 4 students → submit group details by week 8
• 2500 ± 10% words
• Due date: Week 11 Wednesday (28th September)
• Submission: upload a Word document (if requested, plus a file with original sources with highlighted part)
• Materials:
o Choose at least 3 articles from the provided 13 articles on Moodle (then find your own research question, suggestion: plagiarism, skills in accounting graduates)
o Choose any 1 - 3 other articles
• Structure:
o Cover sheet
- Names and student numbers of group members
- Subject Code and name
- Assignment name (i.e. Literature Review)
o Title
o Executive Summary / Abstract
- Research question
- Research gap
o Introduction
- Why it's worth answering the research question
o Body
- Literature review
o Conclusion
- Research gap
- Secondary research question
- Three subsequent semi-structured, open interview questions that could be used to get resolution of that secondary research question
o Reference List (Harvard)
o If requested an attachment

• Format:
o Single space
o Choices of fonts:
- Times New Roman, 12pt
- Calibri, 11pt
- Arial, 10pt

Attachment:- Discussion of the literature reveiw.rar