Assessment Type: Journal Articles Review

Purpose: To allow students to demonstrate their ability to research a research question by critically reviewing nominated literature related to the question.

Topic: Journal Articles Review - the research question and specific journal articles will be provided in 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.

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. You must use at least three of the journal articles given. 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

t is a group assignment, maximum group size is 4,

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 area you 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

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.

Assignment link - https://www.dropbox.com/s/gs0ksj8lmmmgcpi/Assignment.zip?dl=0.