Description Identify a topic of relevance to your degree discipline review relevant literature on this topic develop a research question and identify a suitable methodology for conducting a piece of research to answer this.
Date Assessment due Monday 11th July 16
Learning Outcomes Assessed Learning Outcome 1: Demonstrate knowledge and a critical understanding of the range of research method (s) used in the students area (s) of study.
Learning Outcome 2: Demonstrate the ability to retrieve and appraise current research related to the students area (s) of study.
Learning Outcome 3: Identify a health or social care related review topic place this within the context of an established body of knowledge and develop a coherent research question.
Learning Outcome 4: Demonstrate a critical understanding of the two main research methodologies and select the most appropriate of these to answer your chosen research question
Hand in arrangements Hand two copies of your work electronic and hard copy.
This copy MUST include a copy of the front sheet of your 4 chosen studies.
Your work cannot be marked without a copy of the front page of each of your chosen studies in an appendix to your essay.
You can cut and paste the front page of each of your studies into an appendix at the end of your essay.
I want my study topic to be adult obesity within women in the UK.
Include factors which are the key themes related to the topic from journal articles in the UK.
Choose four research studies from the journal articles to review and compare the factors affecting obesity within women in the UK.
I need a copy of the complete four research studies you choose in my coursework; you can put it in the appendices.
Come up with a new research question related to my topic and add in the coursework.
Also in the appendices (at the end of the assignment) add a search description or a literature review of how you achieved the four chosen studies and journal articles.
Please use Harvard referencing.
Theres an example essay template and step by step guide below:
Marking Criteria
The work has a clear unambiguous Title.
A narrowly defined & well focused review topic has been selected. 10%
The Introduction includes a brief justification of why the review topic is important and outlines the contents of the assignment 150 words. 5%
The literature search is briefly described or given in a table in an appendix. This should give enough detail to allow another person to repeat the steps you took when you did your search search terms used data bases searched and results of each search. Give a list of your chosen studies using the Harvard System in an appendix 5%
At least 4 primary research studies are found that relate very closely to the topic chosen (as the source of the themes to be developed for this review).
The 4 chosen primary research studies should be placed in an appendix to the assignment.
Literature reviews should not be included among your chosen studies. Pass / Fail
Between 3 and 8 themes developed from the findings / results sections of your 4 chosen studies ONLY. Themes will outline the main issues identified in the findings / results sections of your chosen studies and discuss these.
1200 words. 30%
New Research Needed: On the basis of your themes identify any new research that is needed in your topic area. Outline these gap/s in current academic knowledge. Please ensure this section of your review is based on your 4 chosen studies only. 10%
On the basis of what you said in the last section develop a research question that addresses one small piece of the new research that is needed. State this question simply clearly and coherently. 5%
The two major methodologies are defined. A suitable methodology to answer your research question is identified & this choice is justified. Identify and discuss the population of interest sampling strategy sample size & method of data collection. This section will be Referenced using research methods texts. 800 words. 20%
Harvard referencing correctly used throughout.
All articles and research studies included in this work should be referenced in the normal way.
The reference list is organised in alphabetical order according to the family name of the first author.
et al is used in the text only and only when there are 4 or more authors.
A clear & simple writing style with no typing spelling or grammatical errors.
The work is coherently organised according to the marking criteria. 15%
The assignment gives you the opportunity to identify a topic that is of interest to you and develop an overview of current academic knowledge (research studies) regarding this topic. You need to start with a clear well focused and narrow review topic.
You will now have very good skills to carry out an electronic search for up to date academic literature and research studies on your chosen topic. You should keep details of this search in order to give a brief description of this in an appendix to your work. You need to use electronic literature search skills to search the university data bases to find at least 4 academic research studies to include in your review.
Your aim is to provide an overview of this area of academic knowledge that is organized using a coherent thematic approach so that the most important issues about the topic are identified. The academic knowledge you identify in the themes should be based on the findings sections of the 4 primary research studies that you found during your electronic search. These issues should be used as headings in your review and you should cover material from your research studies in each Theme you have identified. This will result in a good overview of what is currently known about your chosen topic on the basis of your 4 chosen research studies.
You then need to decide what is not currently known about your topic area what research still needs to be conducted? These are the gaps in academic knowledge. You will need to identify these gaps in academic knowledge clearly in your review either at the end of each theme or after all the themes sections.
Consider the gaps in academic knowledge that you have identified. Which one would you like to carry out a research study on? You can now develop a research question which might be used as the basis for a new research study designed to fill a gap in academic knowledge. The question should be clearly and coherently stated.
Having decided on a research question you then need to design a research study to answer this question. Decide which of the two major research methodologies is most appropriate to use in the design of your new research study. This can be qualitative or quantitative but not both. You need to briefly describe or define the 2 methodologies qualitative and quantitative. Then identify which methodology would be best to use to answer your research question and explain why it is the best one to use. This section should also include an indication of the methods to be used in your study such as data collection method desired participants sampling strategy and sample size. This section should be referenced using some of the research methods texts recommended in the module guide.
Step by step guide: Assignment 5HL008
1. Topic: Including rationale for your choice
2. Gather 4 Research Studies (Articles): Log/Record how you find these Studies Full Database detail
3. Literature Review of Four Studies
4. Themes: 3-8 new Headings
5. Gaps in this literature review/analysis (State on what is not known)
6. Compile a Research Question: Aim / Hypothesis
7. Research Study Design:
8. Methodology.
9. Methods: Population/Sample. Sampling strategy & Size.
10. Data collection method.
Example essay:
Example Essay 1:
A review of family factors and childhood obesity
People who experienced obesity in childhood are more likely to die prematurely or suffer disabilities. Also they are more possibly to experience overweight or obesity in their youth along with other noncommunicable diseases like diabetes problems and cardio-vascular diseases. (WHO 2012a). The number of children suffering obesity is steadily increasing and in 2010 the World Health Organisation estimated that worldwide and that it had already exceeded 42 million (WHO 2012b). It can be seen therefor that obesity in its many forms is fast becoming a global problem and in need of urgent attention. According to NHS (2012) there are four main causes leading to this disease: lifestyle choices lacking of physical activity genetics and medical reasons. Moreover both of lifestyle choices and genetics are significantly associated with family factors. Thus it came up with a review question The relations between family factors and childhood obesity. Thus in order to further a review of this topic this essay will try to compare and analyse four main academic research studies involving factors within the family that could lead to childhood obesity. As there are not many research studies based on the general population one study for specific area was chosen. Mushtaq et al. (2011) studied this topic on Pakistan.
Finances/ Parental employment
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