Order Description
BRE810 S2
16
Page
1
of
1
Assessment Item
3 Research Proposal
Task/c
ontext
:
Option 1:
You are
currently an employee of a large
organization
which has recent
ly implemented a new
business plan
. You
have been asked
by your boss
to
write a
research
proposal
addressing how the
organization
might examine the attitudes of
their
employees and external stakeholders to the
company’s
new business plan.
Option 2:
Write a research proposal based on the topic you have researched in your
s
econd
assessment
–
the
article critique
. To select th
is option you need to have a good grasp of the subject area that you have
selected for the
article critiques
, as you will need to ident
ify a gap in the research area
so
that you can
f
ormulate
your own research
question
.
Proposal Presentation
Executive summary
Table of contents
I
ntroduction
Literature Review
Research Question
–
State research questions and objectives
Methodology
–
What is your methodology? How do you propose to collect data to answer the
question? Qualitative or Quantitative? Sample size?
(Data collection, sample size, etc)
Analysis
–
How will your data be analysed?
Conclusion
References
For each of the above sections of your proposal you need to justify your selections for the
proposed
research. For example
–
Why have you selected to choose qualitative research data
collection techniques
rather than
quantitative or why have you selected to use both?
DO NOT UNDERTAKE ANY INDEPENDENT PRIMARY RESEARCH.
A PROPOSAL IS A DOCUMENT OUTLINING HOW YOU PROPOSE TO
CONDUCT A SPECIFIC RESEARCH PROJECT.
YOU DO NOT HAVE ETHICS APPROVAL TO UNDERTAKE RESEARCH.
Description/Focus:
Research Proposal
Value:
50
%
Due date:
Midnight Friday Week 12
Length:
3500
–
4000
words
Task:
Select one of the options below and
w
rite
a research proposal
.
You need to
justify and explain your arguments. See additional instructions below
.
Presentation:
Submission in a word document. Include appropriate headings; font Arial
11. CDU Harvard referencing style required. Submissions via Learnline
through safeassign submission point.
