PROJECT INFORMATION - CRITICAL RESEARCH REPORT STRUCTURE GUIDELINES - graded for scale of difficulty */**/***
The structure and final presentation guidelines for the CRITICAL RESEARCH REPORT are taken from:
Cottrell (2014).
Cottrell (2014).
ABSTRACT **
- A summary of key points of the research project. **
TITLE PAGE *
- Title, author, date, university. *
CONTENTS PAGE *
- Chapters, sections, page numbers. *
INTRODUCTION (INCLUDING LITERATURE REVIEW AND METHODOLOGY) ***
- What you aim to achieve. *
- Focus or angle taken. **
LITERATURE REVIEW ***
- To show how your reading and research has used previous sources of secondary information. **
- To show how these sources have been interpreted for the purposed of your work. ***
METHODOLOGY (if relevant) *
- To outline how any primary research was conducted. *
- To explain your sample group and research methods. *
DISCUSSION AND EVALUATION ***
- Identify key points from your reading. **
- Identify key results from your primary research (if relevant). *
- Analyise and evaluate your findings (in relation to the historical and technical *, social ** and theoretical *** using in-text citations and quotations).
See COURSE INFORMATION - BLOOM"S TAXONOMY OF KNOWLEDGE (ANALYSIS, SYNTHESIS, EVALUATE)
CONCLUSION **
- Draw together and summarise thoughts about the research findings and their significance
BIBLIOGRAPHY *
- To provide details of the material used as background for the project, whether cited in the text or not.
REFERENCES **
- To provide details of the sources cited in the text.
APPENDICES (if relevant) *
- To provide supporting details and materials which, if included in the main body of the report, would interrupt its flow for the reader.
REFERENCES
Cottrell, S. (2014) Dissertations and project reports - a step by step guide. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
Cottrell, S. (2014) Dissertations and project reports - a step by step guide. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
