Assignment 3 – Structure and outline 1. Research Motivations 2. Research question/s or Research Problem 3. Methodology and Theory Framework 4. Literature review 5. Findings and Discussion 6. Conclusions 7. References 8. Glossary of terms The following sections are talking about what needs to be done in each section. 1. Research motivations In this section, you provide an overview of the topic – almost similar to an introduction focusing more leading to ‘what makes this necessary research’. Ideally not more than one page. There will be references to support this which are within the last 2 years only. 2. Research questions, problem or statement You may wish to call it any one of the above. In this section, you will ‘state’ the research problem, or questions, that you have investigated in this research. It has to be coming from the one page before or section 1. Remember, through the literature review and analysis, you should be able to answer these questions – that is what you are aiming to do. These questions would have been revised by me for all of you – when you send me a topic and refined it. Whatever was approved, cut/paste it here. 3. Methodology There are 2 aspects to be done in this section. 1. How you collected data (data collection methods) The following methodologies may be used in each of your cases (not all). • Secondary data research (everyone has this element using articles) and Case studies (if there are multiple case studies, or one instrumental case study that is large enough) – suitable to your topic • Social media research through text/data mining (If you are using Twitter feeds, Facebook, Blogs, YouTube videos) 2. How you will present the findings through a framework (Some examples are given below – not a complete list, only to start with – which will be explained in class) Historical Narrative Historiography and modern narrative Case summaries Actor-Network Theory (ANT) – Lens 3. Theories to be applied for analysis. These will differ. Pick one that is suitable for you amongst varied sociological, socioeconomic, sustainability theories.. https://www.thoughtco.com/sociology-research-and-statistics-s2-3026650 4. Literature Review There needs to be multiple sources 50-60 sources of references. At least there has to be 10 journal articles that are relevant to the topic (not irrelevant). All sources of reference has to be between 2012-2017 only. 5. Findings and Discussion In this section, you will use one of the frameworks in the section 3, to present your findings in tables, figures, etc. And then discuss them. If you are using social media or articles, it is important to capture the no.of tweets, FB posts, and articles that you have looked into – so it shows that it is empirical research. Ideally, you would have already drawn THEMES that emerge from the data into tables, figures etc. And then, you will talk about each theme, in your own words, based on what has been found. The analysis is done by applying a theory. This section will be 40-50% of your report. 6. Conclusions From the findings and discussions, you will draw out the ‘conclusions’ – which are essentially your contribution to this research. And then come up with some suggestions. Furthermore, provide some limitations of this research and what can be done in future. 7. References APA or Harvard format – with all fully listed references. 8. Glossary of Terms In the research you would have come across many terms that are new, explain them here. DATA STREAMS (FILES) to create while undertaking research. 1 Data Stream 1: Secondary data research using articles, and other material through CDU Online library sources (CREATE A WORD FILE) and with automatically created ref list. 2 Data Stream 2: TWITTER: create an account if you don’t have one. Then similar to using Google search, use key words to come up with no.of tweets (using # brings up similar key words, grouping them). Once you have a range of tweets, copy and paste them as it is into a Word document. Do not think about sorting them or using relevance at that stage. Once you create the document, save it. Then go through the tweets and sort them by relevance – into a new document. Do remember that you may have 100s of tweets – more the better. Remember to capture the number of re-tweets, likes etc as it is from the site, whatever comes up. 3. Data Stream 3: YouTube videos or documentaries (one off videos) Copy and paste the links of videos that you review into one WORD document. In these, please only use relevant videos with any merit. Ensure that you mark the second or time that you want to highlight in the video. Summarise the videos into paragraphs, after each link that you have created. 4. Data stream 4: Facebook Similar to Twitter, create a new WORD file. Copy and paste the blogs that you find on FB into them as they are. If there is are particular items, do not forget to capture the number of likes, comments, shares made. ESSENTIALLY, the above 4 streams of data are collected via different documents. Use a folder to keep the 4 files. Then write up the literature review, extracting only relevant data.