Bbi 3417 Writing Research Reports

PJJ/BBI3417/Sem 2, 2010-2011

BBI 3417 WRITING RESEARCH REPORTS

Semester 2, 2010-2011

TEXT BOOK

Weissberg, R., & Buker, S. (2005). Writing up research. Selangor: Pearson Malaysia.

Call Mr Tan (h/p no: 012-2808241) to order the text book.

EXERCISES

Self-practice exercises from the text book (this assignment carries no marks – it is not part of the course evaluation)

WEEK / Ref: Main text: Weissberg & Buker (2005)
1 / -
2 / Chapter 2: Ex. 2.7, 2.8, 2.10,
3 / Chapter 3: Ex. 3.1, 3.2, 3.3.
4 / Chapter 3: page 50 Pretest, Ex. 3.5, 3.6
5 / Chapter 3: Ex. 3.11. Chapter 4: Ex. 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4
6 / Chapter 4: page 75 Pretest, Ex. 4.6, 4.7. 4.8, 4.9, 4.10
BREAK
7 / Chapter 5: Ex. 5.1, 5.2, 5.3
8 / Chapter 5: Page 97 Pretest, Ex. 5.5, 5.6, 5.7, 5.8, 5.13
9 / Chapter 6: Page 122 Pretest, Ex. 6.5, 6.6, 6.7
10 / Chapter 7: Ex. 7.4, 7.6, 7.7
11 / Chapter 8: Ex. 8.2, 8.3, 8.5, 8.6, 8.7, 8.8, 8.12
12 / -
13 / -
14 / -

TURNITIN

You are required to submit a softcopy of your assignments (Assignment 1 &2) through the Turnitin plagiarism detection programme, and submit the hard copy of the assignments together with the Turnitin report to PPL through your respective centres.

Go to Click ‘create account’. Click on the link ‘New Students Start Here’. Follow the instructions to enrol yourself into the class using the Class ID and enrolment password below.

Class name: PJJ BBI3417

Class ID: 3699224

Password: distance

To submit assignments to Turnitin

Click on your class name. Click on assignment name (Assignment 1 or Assignment 2). Click submit paper. Your paper should be in word document.

Wait for the report to be generated. Look for similarities indicated and rewrite your drafts.

You can submit your drafts to Turnitin for checking as many times as you need to before the due date, that is two weeks before the start of the final examination week.

To learn about plagiarism

Go to Read materials about plagiarism to educate yourself about plagiarism.

EVALUATION

Assignment 1 (20%)

Write an extended essay as part of a literature review of a particular concept/ variable of a research.

Select a concept/variable that you are interested to investigate as a researcher.
Select 3 – 4 research articles that are relevant for your review of the concept/variable.
Determine the subsections and their headings for your review.
The review should be about 2- 3 pages long, typed double-spaced.
Use correct in-text citation and provide the full reference list.
Submit the soft copy of your review through Turnitin and print out the report.
Rewrite your review to ensure works cited are correctly indicated.
Submit a hard copy of your review together with the Turnitin report.

Caution:

Follow strictly the conventions required in writing research reports.
Do not PLAGIARISE. Do not lift sentences and ideas directly from articles you refer to without proper citation.
Do not write things you don’t understand. Whatever you write must be what you know and reflect what you mean.
Write using your own language.
Any work submitted that violates any of the above will result in a grade of no higher than a D.
Any assignment found to be identical with that of another student will automatically receive an F grade.

Assignment 2 (20%)

Refer to Exercise 5.13 of the text book. Write up the report of the research based on the notes provided. Read the Introduction carefully and write up the Method, Procedure, Material, and Statistical Treatment sections. You may add details of your own to make the descriptions in each section clearer and more complete. Your report should be about 2 – 3 pages, typed double-spaced.

Submit the soft copy of your review through Turnitin and print out the report.

Submit a hard copy of your review together with the Turnitin report. Any assignment found to be identical with that of another student will automatically receive an F grade.

Both Assignment 1 and 2 are due two weeks before the final examination week.

MID-SEMESTER TEST (30%)

Subjective format

Structural questions: short answers required

Writing: Writing parts of a research report

Covers Chapters 1 – 4 of the text book

FINAL EXAMINATION (30%)

Subjective format

Structural questions: short answers required

Writing: Writing parts of a research report

Covers Chapters 1 – 9 of the text book