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Assignment Template

Follow the template and steps below to complete your literature review and research method proposal. Remove any instructions provided, and replace them with the information required.

Title of the project (A tentative title of selected research)　

Name, Student ID

1. Abstract (Total 3 marks)

a) Summary of the knowledge gap: problems of the existing research

b) Aim of the research, summary of what this project is to achieve

c) Summary of the approach or methodology and innovation

d) Summary of the expected outcomes and significance

The above four points need to be clearly stated, each have at least 2 sentences. The approach/method part needs to have minimum 4 sentences.

2. Introduction (Total 3 marks)

An overview of the existing research relating to the proposed research. You must summarise how the proposed research enhance existing research, based on your knowledge obtained from broad scan and focused reading.

Broad Scan moves to Appendix 1

3. Related work (Total 12 marks)

a) Select one type of the research methods (qualitative, quantitative, new product/technology)

b) Select one of the existing research articles which applied the selected research method

c) If the article was not one of the focused reading articles in the assignment 1, a focused reading needs to be conducted for it; otherwise, existing focused reading needs to be improved according to the feedback received for the first assignment.

d) Include the focused reading of the article here, with answers to the following questions

i) What did the authors do (key contributions)

ii) Why did the authors conduct the research (existing problems)

iii) What are the key differences in the method/approach (innovation)

iv) What are main achievements, significance

v) What can be further improved

vi) Research problem identified (to be reflected in section 4 Proposed Research)