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Homework answers / question archive / Assessment Task: Please conduct a written report in the format of a reflection journal to present the process and experience of undertaking desktop research
Identification of project topic
• What led to your particular topic choice?
• Did you consider alternatives?
• How did the process of supervision help with topic choice?
• Have you drawn up a plan of your dissertation? See Plan pro-forma attached.
• Has consideration of ethics altered your proposal in any way?
• How did the process of supervision help with ethical issues?
• Reflect on the whole process of doing a dissertation.
• Was it what you expected it to be?
• What challenges did you face and how did you overcome these?
• Is your dissertation as good as you wanted it to be?
• Would you do things differently if you could do it again?
· Reflect on the process of focusing your research.
· How did you ensure that your information comprehensively addressed the question/hypothesis?
· How did the process of supervision help with literature identification?
Identification of research question/hypothesis
· What challenges did you encounter in developing a research question or hypothesis?
· Did you consider alternatives or modify your original question/hypothesis?
· What led to your particular choice of question/hypothesis?
· How did the process of supervision help with identification of research question(s)/hypotheses?
Choosing an appropriate methodology
· Did you consider alternatives?
· What constrained your choice?
· What particular skills do you have or need to carry out this study?
· What are the problems and solutions?
· How did the process of supervision help with choice of methodology?
· What have you learnt about research from the process of secondary data collection?
· Do you wish you piloted your procedure before hand?
· How did the process of supervision help with secondary data collection?
Data analysis and interpretation
· Did you consider alternative analyses?
· What constrained your choice?
· What particular skills do you have or need to perform the analyses?
· What are the problems and solutions?
· How did the process of supervision help with analysis and interpretation?
· Reflect on the process of relating your results to the wider literature.
· What challenges did you meet in organising and linking ideas?
· How did the process of supervision help with discussing results?
Word count: The word limit is 1200 words +/- 10%
Learning Outcomes to be assessed (as specified in the validated module descriptor
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