Assignment 3 Notes and Instructions MNG10720 Assignment 3: Literature Review • Length: 1000 words • Weighing: 30% • Covers: • Topic 3: The Literature Review Resubmission of Failed Assessments • Students are permitted to resubmit Assignment 3 if the student has failed that assessment item Failed assessment must be resubmitted within ten (10) business days of notification • No other assignment resubmissions are permitted, this only applied to Assignment 3 Literature Review • The maximum grade awarded to a resubmit is a Pass Submission Method Submit a copy on-line via this unit’s blackboard site You need to submit using TurnItIn The link is located under the ‘assessment details’ folder in Blackboard The electronic copy of your assignment must be submitted as a Word Document (.doc or .docx) ) Late submissions  Late submission will lose 5% per day. • Assignment extensions need to be applied for via special consideration procedures. • These are now eforms submitted via ‘My Enrolment’ For details on special consideration visitReference Style: Harvard The required reference style for this unit is the Harvard style Click on the ‘Topic 3’ folder within the blackboard site for this unit and upload the referencing chapter from Summers and Smith’s (2006) It provides you with examples and everything you need to know about the Harvard referencing style  Make sure that your referencing is consistent 1. 2. 3. 4.  Marking Criteria Your Assignment 3 will be marked based on the following criteria: Range, relevancy and quality of literature related to the research question 35% Development of a well-structured, critical argument 40% Clarity of expression throughout the review 15% Referencing (within review and reference list) 10%. . . . . Assignment Text Instructions: Present your revised problem statement from Assignment 2. Write a critical literature review (length up to 1000 words excluding reference list) that evaluates a minimum of five (5) references from the academic literature (books and/or academic journal articles) relevant to your research idea. Provide a reference list using the Harvard referencing system. Turnitin – examine your Turnitin Originality Report for this assessment to make sure your similarity score is low and you are rewriting ideas from the literature either a) in your own words or b) using formal quotations as necessary. This is important as failure to do so amounts to plagiarism. 1 2 3 4 Tips for the Literature Review • High grade in this unit will use more than 5 references Source academic journal articles from the library’s databases High grade in this unit needs to be critical in your writing. Being critical means to look at a particular approach from different angles, comparing/contrasting it with other approaches, and not automatically adopting it by its face value. The idea is to try to look at the strengths and weaknesses of the research papers then draw your own conclusions. Example of Being Critical • This author is NOT being critical: Job satisfaction is defined as being in ‘a pleasurable or positive emotional state resulting from the appraisal of one’s job or job experiences’ (Locke, 1976, p. 1304). This author IS being critical: According to Locke (1976, p. 1304), job satisfaction can be defined as being in ‘a pleasurable or positive emotional state resulting from the appraisal of one’s job or job experiences’. As opposed to this affective approach to job satisfaction, however, other researchers (Eagly & Chaiken 1993; Kaplan et al. 2009) have presented a more cognitive view of job satisfaction. From this perspective...  Based on this discussion, you would make up your own opinion on how you think it is appropriate to define job satisfaction for the purpose of your research study Assignment Text Instructions Provide a reference list (Harvard – see Summers and Smith’s (2006) referencing guide) for academic literature sources you use to justify your final research proposal A note on word limit: • The cover sheet, title page, reference list, and appendices are not included in the 1000 word limit Please also find the attached research proposal that had been used in previous assignment so that the topic would be the same

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