Project Design
Key information
- Status
- Module not running
- Module code
- 155200095
- FHEQ Level
- 5
- Credits
- 15
- Department
- School of Law, Gender and Media
Module overview
This seminar is solely aimed at assisting students to develop the skills necessary for their longer essay assignments and dissertations. It is a skills-focused seminar. The aim to help students learn how to conceive of their research question, to plan their time, and to produce a opics to be addressed are: framing a research question, embarking on research and research methodologies, doing an outline, structuring a large project, beginning the writing process, working with drafts, and completing the project.
This module is not running in 2019/20, and will first run in 2020/21 academic year.
Workload
2 hour seminars per week
Scope and syllabus
- Choosing a research area.
- Framing a research question.
- Embarking on Research: where to start?
- Research process: when to stop?
- Creating an Outline for writing
- Time Management & Approaches to Writing
- Working with drafts
- Editing
Method of assessment
- Formulating a Research Question, 500 Words: 15%
- Bibliography, 250 Words: 15%
- Formulating an Outline, 500 Words: 15%
- Reflective Journal, 1000 Words: 30%
- Presenting Your Research Plan and Outline: 15%
- Attendance & Participation: 10%
Suggested reading
The online existing MOOC will be used as a resource for the first four weeks, but will be conducted in class. The materials are here:
https://www.coursera.org/learn/research-methods
The Core text in addition to this will be:
Nick Moore, How to Do Research: a practical guide to designing and managing research projects (London: Facet, 2006
Disclaimer
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