Academic Session 3/2021

September 2021
LSS312/05 Principles of Social Research
Assignment 1

Instructions:

1. This assignment covers topics in Units 1 and 2 of the LSS312/05 course materials.

2. The total marks for Assignment 1 are 100 and contributes 30% to the total grade.

3. Please note that this is an individual assignment.

4. You are expected to include a references section listing out all the relevant resources you
have consulted in completing this assignment.

5. The references and in-text citations should be in APA (American Psychological

Association) style. Marks will be deducted for inappropriate style. (APA guidelines:
http://woulibrary.wou.edu.my/help/citeguides_apa.asp)

6. Your assignments are to be submitted via the Online Assignment Submission (OAS)
System. The deadline for Assignment 1 submission is Thursday, 7th October 2021.

7. It is important that you know that evidence of plagiarism will be taken seriously. Please
read through the University’s definitions of plagiarism and collusion.

i. Please NOTE you DO NOT need to passage your Assignment to the Turnitin system.
However, you are encouraged to produce honest academic writing. Your tutor may passage
your assignment through Turnitin at any time and a similarity index of 30% and above is
NOT ACCEPTABLE and must be reviewed. Failure to do so would result in failure of the
assignment.

8. Please submit your assignment through the Online Assignment Submission (OAS) system.
We do not accept submissions through hard copies.

9. Your assignment should be about 1200 words excluding the front cover, references, etc.
Figures and diagrams must be cited accordingly.

10. Please adhere to the guidelines below for assignment submission:

i. The manuscript should be typewritten using Times New Roman font size 12 with 1.5
spacing throughout the manuscript, on the A4-sized layout with the left and right
margins set to 2 cm and top and bottom margins set respectively to 1.7 cm and 2 cm.

ii. A cover sheet with the student’s name, course code and course name should
accompany the assignment. It can be found in the Course Assessments section in the LMS.

iii. Indicate the word count of your answer at the end of the assignment.

iv. Wikipedia and your course materials cannot be counted as part of your references.

Assignment Task

Question 1:

a. Explain the knowledge hierarchy with examples. Then answer why the knowledge
hierarchy is useful to researchers? (25 marks)

b. Discuss the criteria for evaluating resources. Then answer how do you evaluate articles
from electronic resources? (25 marks)

Question 2:

Differentiate between the following:

a. pure research and applied research (25 marks)

b. quantitative and qualitative research (25 marks)