RESPECTED FIELD FOR PROJECT: HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT Step 1, worth 15% of total unit marks. This assignment requires you to submit, in week 4, a single page project plan. This project plan will...

RESPECTED FIELD FOR PROJECT: HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT Step 1, worth 15% of total unit marks. This assignment requires you to submit, in week 4, a single page project plan. This project plan will contain three components: A] A ‘field of research’ which pertains to your understanding of your profession. This short statement will include how this field relates to the work of your profession and an industry. B] A source of secondary data linked to their chosen field of research. Students will be required to either include a website with a link to a publicly available secondary data set, or a short description of how they will use publicly available sources as secondary data. C] A research question or questions that can be answered with the secondary data set they identified, including a clear expression of the variables you will be using, and the relationships you plan to explore. D] The search terms you propose to use in Google Scholar to identify literature in the field of the research question. E] You will be asked to pick five articles that arise from the result of your search that you will think be suitable sources to write a literature review in the area of your field of research. You will be asked to write two sentences that combine at least three of these sources (referenced correctly) and provide the (at least three) sources in a reference list. An overview of simple, good academic writing A paragraph is a collection of sentences that are about one thing. A good paragraph gives a hint about what that one thing is in the first sentence. Then it gives more information...and it finishes with a hint about where the next paragraph is going to talk about. A good paragraph will have two or more references in it, because if it only has one reference, it means that the paragraph is really based on just one idea, one source. Good academic writing should be a synthesis (if you don't know what that word means, look it up) of more than one scholars ideas. Many students simply read a tiny bit of an article, and then choose ONE THING to say about that scholar/article....then they throw that article away. For example, they might find an article on corporate social responsibility in the banking industry in Sweden, note that it is about corporate social responsibility and then write something like this: "Corporate social responsibility is about companies caring for more things than just profit (Smith,2000)." I read student work where they just refer to Smith (2000) once, and then Jones (2010) once, and Lee (1994) once...and so on. Yes, they have 'used' 20 references in their work...but in fact they have not used any really well. If you are writing a good report, we expect you to dig deeper into these articles, and find the true message, usually in the "discussion" section of the article, or the "findings". Good report writing is also tidy.