Major report ( BUSS 5381)

The major report is due 3 weeks after the return of assignment 1. Since
assignment 1 is due back on Wed Oct 9, it means students who did their
presentations on Oct 9, as well as those who did it before Oct 9, will need to
submit their report via grade-book on Wed Oct 30 by 5pm. From then on, for
the following weeks presentations, each student has 3 weeks to submit their
assignment after their role plays, up until week 13, where those who do their
presentation on Wed Nov. 6 will need to submit by 5pm Wed Nov 27.
Here is a suggested outline for the report:

INTRODUCTION [Suggested word count 950 words]

Summarise your background /professional experience and why you want to

do the topic you chose. (This would be about 150 words.)
Identify what you should be doing to be effective in the role play(s) you chose,
in line with the literature. (You may use sub- headings for each topic you want
to comment on.) Only write about concepts that you will discuss and analyse
in the discussion, -you do not have to comment on every issue in your
questionnaire. (about 800 words)

METHOD [150 words]

Explain briefly the process you followed to set up the role play.You will also
need to refer to an Appendix which will give extensive details of
o Role play topics. ( Note that you only need to choose one if you did 2
different role plays)
o Role play assistants
o Time keeper
o Camera persons
o Questionnaire distributor and collector
o Room organiser
o Room layout
o Questionnaire

RESULTS [About 200 words]

Summarise results ONLY on those issues you want to discuss. Use bar
charts, pie charts, tables or whatever way you can present the data in a
summarised visual way.
You might wish to fill in one of your questionnaires to include your scores after
viewing the recordings, and identify where you rated yourself compared to the
rest of the class.
Since tables, graphs, charts do not count in the word count, the only words
that would count are any comments on the results

DISCUSSION [About 800 words]

Analyse the results comparing them with the literature. In the Introduction, you
wrote what you SHOULD have done, and in the Discussion you write what
you DID do, and WHY you did it. Explain why there are any differences, if any,
between the two. It is suggested you use the same order you introduced
each topic in the Introduction in the Discussion section, in analysing the
results

RECOMMENDATIONS [About 400 words]

Try to come up with about 5 or more recommendations with literature support.

Use dot points to separate them. Outline what specifically you need to do to
improve those skills where you feel you need further improvement

REFERENCES (not included in the word count)

You may use any references you wish as long as there are a minimum of 15
academic sources

APPENDICES (not included in the word count)

Your handout sheet for your role play, plus questionnaire

Any raw data from your results such as the number of responses for each
question, but not in a table or chart form.