BUSN20019 Professional Project - Project Report

Assessment 2

This is an individual, written assessment, to be completed in professional report format. You are required to write around 3,000 words (+/- 10%), excluding preliminaries, tables, figures, reference list and appendices. The report requires in-text referencing and a full reference list in APA style, with evidence that you have critically read and integrated a minimum of 20 suitable scholarly references. The purpose of this assessment is to present the final report of the Professional Project you proposed in Assignment 1. This report should build upon both components of your Assessment 1 and it should be developed with the help of the tutor/co-
ordinator feedback.

In order to successfully complete Assessment 2, you are required to carry out the investigation you have proposed in Assessment 1 and produce a professional research report that shows that you have followed through from finding a research question to answering that question and developing recommendations that arise from your findings. The report will follow the typical structure of a research report and will need to include the following:

• Title page (with a clear project title), executive summary, table of contents
• Introduction, including: background, problem statement, justification of the need for the project, and research question(s)
• Critical literature review
• Research methodology, including: transparent presentation of data source(s), and how you collected and analysed the data
• Findings from your secondary data analysis
• Discussion of findings in light of your previously reviewed literature
• Conclusion, including: answering your research question(s), recommendations and limitations
• Reference list
• Appendices

Note: Appendices are optional and should be used for supplementary material only. You must use common font (e.g. Arial or Times New Roman) with font size 11 or 12, as well as appropriate margins and spacing.