Essay CIS 4011-N – Communicate Complex Academic Issues – Research Writing Assignment Help

Assignment Task :

Learning Outcomes (CIS 4011N )

Personal and Transferable Skills 
1.  Communicate complex academic issues effectively to specialist and non-specialist audiences.
2.  Defend the rationale and decisions made for the research proposal. 

Research, Knowledge and Cognitive Skills
3.  Select appropriate research strategies and data generation methods for a computing context, and critically evaluate their effectiveness within the development and evaluation of computing-related artefacts. 
4.  Use a systematic search, analysis, synthesis and critique of the literature within computing to articulate how their work, or planned work, contributes to knowledge within the computing field. 
5.  Design a research proposal to address significant areas of computing-related theory and/or practice 

Professional Skills
6.  Critique the professional, legal and ethical implications of their work within a computing context.

Element 1 :

You are asked to carry out a systematic search of Teesside University library’s online databases, looking for peer-reviewed academic journal or conference papers (not books). Your aim is to discover relevant, peer-reviewed, academic research articles on a computing topic chosen by you. This topic should be tused as the basis for your project proposal (Part 2 of this ICA). Your list of articles should include some primary research, not just papers that summarise the literature or give a personal opinion. In your Part 1 report you should describe your full literature search and review process:

• Short introduction of your topic.
• Your repeated cycles of define search question, search, assess results, refine question, refine search, assess results, refine question etc.
• Your criteria, with reasons, for deciding the relevance to your topic of articles that you found and therefore their inclusion or exclusion from your final list. 
• Your conclusions about the results of your literature search, and your evaluation of the search’s limitations.

Element 2 :

Create a research proposal poster which will form the basis of your masters project. Your proposal should mostly draw upon the papers that you found in Part 1 (but you can include additional references). It should contain the following bulleted lists covering the aspects below:

Research purpose. Introduce and explain the research’s purpose, including a single overall research question that will be addressed by the research. You must also define the anticipated product(s) i.e. the anticipated contribution to knowledge. 

Background context. Previous academic research in your topic area, and how your project will relate to that previous work. The majority of your cited references in this section should be to the papers that you found in Part 1 of this ICA.

Research methodology. Intended research methodology by which you will address and answer your research question. The research methodology should consist of one or more research strategies, one or more data generation methods and, if appropriate, your intended data analysis techniques.

Evaluation methodology. Justify how you plan to evaluate your end product(s) or contribution to knowledge. Note that masters projects are expected to include third party evaluation of the end product if at all possible.

Schedule and publishing. Explain the set of tasks, the timescale for each task and hence the timescale for the overall research which captures your schedule visually. Allow 13 weeks from ‘project start’ to ‘hand-in of all project work’ (you need not include the presentation & viva, which normally come after the hand-in). Also identify the academic journal or conference for which you will prepare your project’s final research paper.

Professional, legal and ethical issues. professional, legal and ethical issues that your proposal raises, and  how they will be addressed. This includes identifying which level of ethical clearance will be required from the School’s Research Ethics Committee.