You are required to complete an ‘Individual Research Process Report ’ (IRPR)using the template pre-formatted for you in MSWord on the SKL402 Blackboard siteunder ‘Assessment’.The research you collect for this IRPR is designed to help you better prepare for yourHRM401 CW1 group presentation (due weeks 10 &11) as well as your HRM401Individual CW2 report (due week 12). However, the IRPR itself is assessedindependently by your SKL402 tutors and worth 50% of your SKL402 grade.The IRPR template provided asks you to first document and paraphrase a variety ofsources which you have found, then say why you feel they are relevant to your ownresearch question. In the second part of the IRPR, you will provide a narrative of yourresearch journey: the ‘dead ends’ and ‘research wins’ along the way using the researchtools and techniques introduced during the course.Please refer to the student exemplar on Blackboard under ‘assessment’ for an idea of howthis completed research process report could look (note: the exemplar is for a previousresearch question, not used in the current course).
The Individual Research Process Report template includes two sections: PART A: ‘documentary evidence’o screenshots of excerpts of the original text, tables or diagrams from:■ a minimum of three primary sources■ a minimum of eight secondary sources (at least five of these musthave been sourced from RULDiscovery)o alongside each excerpt, your summary or paraphrased version of thekey ‘take-aways’ from each oneo your own notes/commentary on how you feel each source relates to theideas and concepts in your HRM401 presentation or individual reporto an in-text (author date only) citation and end-of-text full Harvard Referencefor all sources which you used to create your HRM401 reporto screenshots showing how you used the folder system (known as ‘projects’)within RULDiscovery to store sources, articles or e-books in a systematic way PART B: ‘narrative evidence’A 600-word narrative of the research process itself. This could draw from any notesyou have made around research-related classroom activities or simply your own self-directed research in the first half of semester. It could include:o how your choice of company was governed by available information foreach research questiono the search terms and ‘search strings’ you used in RULDiscovery tofind informationo how you widened your research parameters after meeting ‘dead ends’in RULDiscovery, or narrowed them to focus your researcho decisions around how you arranged your RULDiscovery foldersystem thematicallyo your choice of source type (e.g.newspapers/academic article etc) and howyou assessed the reliability of Google-based sources.
Other tasks you can find in the file attached below.