Assignment 2 - Research Paper
Related objectives from the Unit Outline
1. Demonstrate skills in the location and selection of ICT-related information and information sources.
2. Demonstrate skills in the written, visual and oral presentation of information for academic and business purposes.
Student Learning Outcomes
• Demonstrate skills in the written, visual and oral presentation of information for academic and business purposes.
• Apply scientific method to an ICT research task.
• Analyse, interpret and present data.
Research Paper: Continuance Intention in the personal use of Social Networking Services (SNS)
In Assignment 1A you scoped and researched a problem domain (CI in the personal use of SNS). In Assignment 1B, you wrote a literature review, developed around a CI theme with SNS selected from:
a. SNS use (logins, hours)
b. Demographics such as gender and age
c. Role of psychology (introversion, extroversion, anxiety, self-esteem, narcissism)
d. Social networking (sociability, propensity for SNS friends and close friends)
e. Technology acceptance (attitude to risk, HCI and SNS satisfaction)
In Assignment 2, the work you have done with 1A and 1B will be used to create a research paper that investigates some user data and reports findings from this investigation. Specifically, your paper will:
• Introduce the Social Networking Service (SNS) of your choice
• Provide an overview of topics you found in peer-reviewed research about SNS CI research (Assignments 1A and 1B)
• Introduce a theme/ topic area selected from the above list and describe trends in research on this theme (Assignment 1B)
The three points above should be extracted from your earlier work on Assignments 1A and 1B. You can include your entire Literature Review again in this Research Paper, but you must attend to any suggestions made in feedback from your tutor-this means you should make changes at both the sentence level and structural level where problems were indicated. Other parts of your text may change as well as your understanding of the research develops. NOTE: Errors repeated from earlier work will lead to significant marks reduction in this assessment.
• Develop a thesis statement based on literature reviewed which explains CI in light of the user dataset provided (download from our Blackboard site).
• Describe results from investigation and analysis of this statement with reference to the dataset (treat the dataset as though the figures relate to your chosen SNS).
• Report the results of this investigation using visualisation (charts) and statistics.
• Report evidence-driven conclusions derived from analysis of the data and the literature that you have consulted.
For Assignment 2, you will need to submit:
• A research paper complete with abstract and APA-formatted reference list (follow the template provided).
Problem-solving
For the topic/theme area that you have selected, you will develop a thesis statement for testing using the dataset provided. To develop a thesis statement:
• Review the lecture and workshop on thesis statement development (there are three kinds: argumentative, analytic and expository).
• Download the dataset from Blackboard.
• Review the explanation of variables (e.g. hours, logins, SNS friends, Close friends) in the Explanations worksheet.
• Formulate a question that provides the basis for development of a thesis statement that can be tested with the data provided.
• Brainstorm thesis statement development. Remember, you are using the dataset to test your thesis statement, so the statement needs to be testable with the variable data found in the spreadsheet.
Please do what the assignment say to do. i would like it to be unique because i don't want to be caught for plagiarism please use this guide for referencing https://www.ecu.edu.au/centres/library-services/shared-content/downloads/ECU-Referencing-Guide-2014-July-update.pdf i can send the assignment 1 because they are likd remember that APA 6th edition must be used.
2000 words.
14 references.
Attachment:- Assignment.rar