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. Planning your Research Project 2025

What you will be able to do

• 1.1 Evaluate opportunities for research in tourism and hospitality organisations.
• 1.2 Assess appropriate methodological approaches to researching management problems in the tourism and hospitality industry.
• 2.1 Justify philosophical approaches to research in a management context.
• 2.2 Design an appropriate research strategy for collecting data on a tourism or hospitality management research problem.
• 2.3 Collect data relating to a tourism or hospitality management research problem.
• 3.1 Analyse data collected for research using an appropriate methodology.
• 3.2 Present qualitative or quantitative data for an academic audience.
• 3.3 Draw conclusions from data collected for research purposes.
• 4.1 Communicate the findings of research in ways that are relevant to an academic audience.
• 4.2 Communicate the findings of research in ways that are relevant to a business audience.

Activity

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

Study materials

Videos

• Planning your Research Project 2025 · YouTube · University of Staffordshire Student Life · 21 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