Module: (FY028) Inquiry Based Learning

Topic: (Title: Research Title)

Student’s Name:
Student ID:
Lecturer’s Name:
Due Date:
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Table of Contents

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I. Introduction

In this section you should state:

 what your research/project/enquiry is about,
 why your topic is important? (Motivation),
 what your main research question is
 what you are trying to show or prove (Your Hypothesis/assumed answer),
 what your secondary objectives are,
 what your main findings are (very brief),
 What the structure of your report is ? For instance, you can say: “The rest of
the report is organised as follows. Section 2 presents the related literature
review. Section 3 shows….”

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II. Literature Review

In this section, you should report the studies that have already been done on your topic.
You can find the literature on books, journals, scholarly articles, industry & trade
publications, NHS and other UK government websites etc. You should select five (5)
previous studies.

For each study, give a summary of each study and explain how other people’s research is
relevant to yours. Write in 3rd person and academic writing style. You should evaluate
the literature, compare and contrast. You could consider
- Quality, accuracy and depth of the literature
- Use of primary and secondary sources
- Relevance to your hypothesis and objectives

III. Methodology

In this section you should clearly state how you carried out your investigation. You need
to describe what you did to conduct your investigation and the step-by-step procedure
you followed.

Explain:
 Your data (whether they are primary, secondary, qualitative, quantitative),
 The resources that you used in order to collect the data and whether you have
limited your resources. (e.g., have you conducted primary research, or your study
is based on literature only secondary research.)
 How do you elaborate the data for your report.

IV. Results/Discussion

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This is the section you interpret and explain your results, offering possible reasons as to
why you got the findings you did, providing evidence to back up your explanations.

You should strictly focus on the results directly relevant to answering your
research question, the objectives and your hypothesis.

You may find that you use phrases such as, “This seems to support…..”, “It appears
that…….” “This may be due to…..” This is called academic hedging and as your findings
may be generalised, it attempts to explain your findings within the limitations of your
investigation.

 Present your finding of your research. You can use text, graphs or diagrams.
 Analyse - break the data/topics into prats and discuss each part in detail.
 Synthesise - integrating data from several sources to produce new insights.
 Discuss meaning of your findings mean by supporting the explanation with previous
research.
 Do not forget to give each graph/table a title and provide a description of the
information demonstrated.

V. Conclusions

 Summary of the main points of your research, the key points you have made, telling
the reader why your findings are important, in one paragraph, ending with the
message that you want to leave your readers with. This is where you ask yourself “So
what do my findings show, what does this mean and why should the reader care?”
 State whether you achieved research objectives and whether you can confirm
your hypothesis.
 Suggestions for future research.

VI. Recommendation

What are the recommendation for action? Let reader know what they should do as a
result of the investigation.

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VII. References/bibliography

List all your sources in alphabetical order, using the Harvard Referencing style.

Appendix

In this section, you can provide additional information related to your topic such as data,
graphs, etc.