Assignment workshop: research, planning and referencing

This week’s topics

Assignment workshop: research, planning and referencing

1. Unpacking the assignment brief and criteria
2. Finding and evaluating sources
3. Planning and referencing
4. Writing a Business Research Report

What you will be able to do

• 1.1 Analyse the importance of project management in business.
• 1.2 Analyse the tools and techniques of project management in business management.
• 2.1 Explain the factors involved in technical analysis and the selection of location in project management in business.
• 2.2 Analyse the network techniques of analysis.
• 2.3 Describe the critical path method in project management in business.
• 3.1 Explain the capital structure and the long term and short-term finances in project management in business.
• 3.2 Analyse new sources of finance in project management in business.
• 4.1 Explain project monitoring and control in project management in business.
• 4.2 Analyse methods of project evaluation and post project evaluation in project management in business.

Activity

Start with this week’s video, then: Plan the unit assignment against every criterion; source and reference the evidence.

Study materials

Videos

• Writing a Business Research Report · YouTube · Galton College · 11 min · for registered students

Further resources

• Writing for Success, ch. 8.1–8.3: Prewriting, outlining and drafting · PDF · Saylor Academy, textbook chapter; pp. 281–318 · for registered students
• Evaluating Information: Applying the CRAAP Test · PDF · Other, report · for registered students
• Harvard Referencing quick guide 2025 (York St John University) · PDF · Other, report · for registered students