A. The project is on increase efficiency on a production line, as part of my masters in engineering project management. Every organization has specific expectations about the operations of the business (Schroeder et al. 2013). There are several ways in which production line of an organization can be project. The project will be based on finding the ways, issues and challenges faced while increasing production line efficiency of the organization. Tools and equipments, training, performance appraisal and accountability are the major methods followed by the organizations in order to increase efficiency in the production line of a business organization. B. Data will be sourced from “Using membrane transporters to improve crops for sustainable food production”, written by Schroeder et al. (2013). In the article, detailed report regarding increasing efficiency in a production line. It is available on www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov website. C. Regarding the research some questions arise that are required to answer through secondary data sources. What are the factors responsible for increasing efficiency in a production line? How globalization effect on production line of a business? What are the challenges faced by the managers in implementing efficiency-increasing methods for the organization? What are the recommendations to overcome the challenges? D. While researching on Google Scholar the terms used for searching the topic are ‘factors responsible for production line’, ‘globalization on production line’ and ‘methods for increasing efficiency in production line’. References:- 1. Schroeder, J. I., Delhaize, E., Frommer, W. B., Guerinot, M. L., Harrison, M. J., Herrera-Estrella, L., ... & Tsay, Y. F. (2013). Using membrane transporters to improve crops for sustainable food production. Nature, 497(7447), 60. 2. Henderson, H., & Isaac, A. G. (2017). Modern Value Chains and the Organization of Agrarian Production. American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 99(2), 379-400. Marks: A. Field of research. This was a very poor effort and you clearly didn’t understand what we are looking for. This unit does not require an is essay, nor a textbook… This is a short, focused project based on secondary data analysis. We are also looking for a topic that is more than just applied. So an applied project would be looking at “sales of jewellery in Kuwait”, whereas what we would be looking for is something that tells us (and the world) something of GENERAL value. So, a project looking at the “impact of online marketing (e.g. Instagram) on the sale of luxury goods (e.g. jewellery) in the Middle East (e.g. Kuwait)” would be able to give us information that could apply beyond just Instagram, jewellery and Kuwait… There should be a solid thread, a solid connection, between your field your topic, your scholarly literature (with theory and other findings as a background) your secondary data, and then finally your research question and method of analysing it. These are all related to the data you are able to find, so It is in many ways best to find the data first (because it is not easy to find) and then fit the rest of it around that. All of these things should be ALIGNED nicely, that is, be related to or FIT WITH each other. The more closely aligned the better. If it reasonably well aligned, that’s also OK. B. Source of Secondary Data. No no no.. To fully understand what I mean by secondary data, please review: https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=660&v=rgAq0I_si_k https://moodle.cqu.edu.au/pluginfile.php/492031/course/section/113044/primary%20and%20secondary%20data%20sources%20and%20research.pdf So you need to firstly, find data, locate some variables in it and do some original analysis to it… It’s not enough to find some mention of findings (whether numbers or words) in someone else’s report or website, and then just report them on to us in your final project. That’s using that material as a ‘secondary’ or ‘primary’ SOURCE…. We want you to do something, some kind of ‘cooking’ and ‘cleaning’ to the data, so you can talk about something even SLIGHTLY new, something you created in this research project. C. Research Questions/Aims/Hypotheses. How could you answer these questions with data? Remember that you need to answer your research questions WITH the data…not with your readings on the subject. Your readings on the subject will illuminate the background to your research, and perhaps be useful in discussing your research. Your research question needs to refer to variables that are present in the database or databases you’ve identified in B (above). So if your research question was to examine the “impact of online marketing on the sale of luxury goods in the Middle East” I would expect to find that your data contained some data on the sale of luxury good in the Middle East, and also data on the use of online marketing and NORMAL (not online) marketing, so you could do some kind of comparison. It would be great if you had similar data for a country that was NOT in the Middle East, so you could say things like “the evidence I’ve presented suggests that online marketing seems to be powerful in the marketing of luxury goods in Canada, in Kuwait traditional marketing still seems to be more potent.” Remember in your conclusions you should NOT claim things you have NOT found in your analysis. D. Search terms. No. We were looking for a set of terms you could put into Google and get nice sharp results that would suit your topic By using quote marks in a careful way you can bring the results down, and by removing quote marks but using the EXACT professional terms like inflation or motivation you will bring the amount of results up. Have you tried to use these terms in Google Scholar to see what you get?. Are your terms the only and the best terms (from a disciplinary point of view) to describe the constructs/topic you are aiming at? Have you checked in the textbook(s) from your previous units to see what are the right key terms for the topic you are looking at? Keep your terms short, (in quote marks for more than one word, but try not use more than three words in a row in a search term, otherwise you will get NO ‘hits’). E. Sentences, references. Again, very much NO. We were looking for two sentences with three references, and making sure that the two-reference sentence would provide an opportunity to show that you can digest the three articles and see that there are similarities in the heart of the articles, or differences…so sentences that say “both x and y believe that ….” Or “while x says this, y says that”. To do correct research work, even in a literature review section, it is important to read an article ‘deeply’ not just superficially, and work out the core messages. Students do have a tendency to read articles very superficially (if at all), and just reference them without much reading or thinking. As markers, we can pick up on that, and realise, “no the student has not read this really…or not understood.” You have been careless with APA style. I’m not going to teach you how to do APA style…I’ve got a section on the Moodle site (Referencing: We Expect You To Get This Right), which you SHOULD DEFINITELY refer to. Every little thing counts here. So spaces between words. Full stops and commas. Correct capitalisation. It’s a quite simple recipe, as long as you stick to books and journals… If you want to reference other things, you will need to a proper APA style guide, and be super careful. If you feel you are struggling on how to reference, have a close read of a few articles published in peer reviewed papers and you will see how they reference, and the kind of words they use. Also check out the Academic Phrasebank (at the University of Manchester)…a great resource. Remember in your ‘minimum of 20 articles’ target for the final assignment to focus on peer-reviewed scholarly publications as a base…and then you can have some industry sources on top of that. Additional advice Please note it is really important to follow direct, clear instructions. If you don’t do so, this in itself causes a high risk of failure in this unit. In your final two assignments, make sure you are super careful with spelling and if possible get an English-as-a-first-language student or friend to check your work. Five refs, not two required in the list at the end…this kind of thing suggests that you REALLY are not paying attention…