The document outlines the final submission guidelines for a research project. Students are instructed to submit a 500-word literature review, 1000-word research design, and 500-word reflection by April 28th. They should also include their research poster and any appendices as evidence by the deadline. An overview of the requirements will be provided, and students must discuss their project ideas with a tutor before the April 21st deadline to sign up for a supervisor.

1. Final Submission Guidelines

2.  Formative feedback on your poster
 Peer
 Tutor
 Guidance for the reflection
 Also – details of final year research project
module
 Staff research interests
 How to sign up for a supervisor

3.  By now you will have conducted a small
scale research project
 Enabled you to practice different methods
 Develop your research design skills
 Think through and overcome difficulties in
research

4.  500 word literature review – what has
been said before about your topic of
investigation
 Aided by the annotated bibliography task –
you do not submit the annotated bibliography

5.  1000 word research design
 What research approach did you take?
 What data collection methods did you use?
 What was the sample?
 How did you analyse the data?
 Justify your choices by underpinning with
the research methods literature (i.e. think
back to the essay…)

6.  500 word reflection – guidance will be
handed out today.
 Did you encounter any problems?
 How did you overcome them?
 What could you have done differently?
 What have your learnt about the research
process?

7.  Appendices:
 Your A3 poster of main findings
 Evidence of your research – e.g:
 Interview transcripts
 Questionnaire design (pre and post pilot)
 Evidence of analysis – coding of qual data,
any extra graphs and tables of stats

8.  Present as word document (your poster
can be submitted as a PDF if you wish).
 Upload to assignment handler on BB.
 Deadline date: 28th April 2014 9am
 No drafts accepted after 16th April.

9.  You should have drafts of most sections
by now (except reflection).
 Purpose was to keep you on track – next
year your research project is about
INDEPENDENT and AUTONOMOUS
LEARNING
 Tutors will not chase you!
 This mini-project prepared you – did you
keep on top of the work?

10.  Overview will be provided today.
 You MUST discuss ideas with tutor before
signing up.
 https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1SO07Aw
FkFKwszqFiw1PCG_YUBDnDKNlyknTjdE
CVueA/viewform
 By 21 April 2014