Individual research project on Employee Engagement and HRD’s Role research report should reflect your ability to analyze, critically assess and form reasoned judgements about Employee Engagement and HRD’s Role.
In other words, your work should go beyond simple reporting of what scholars have to say about the topic or issue. The work should reflect your ability to identify common themes and disparate elements in various viewpoints and debates about the topic or issue, and judge the quality of a perspective based on the arguments and/or evidence presented by researchers and scholars to support it.
Marking for the research paper will be based on, among others, organisation and clarity of expression and writing, accuracy and depth of analysis, cogency of arguments presented, as well as how well the paper accomplishes its stated purpose.
An assignment deserving an A is one that has a clearly stated purpose, accurately presents the essence of the debates on the topic, critically examines all the perspectives on the topic, and is brought to a graceful conclusion. The paper should be well organised, clearly written, and grammatically correct, and should reflect what you have learned because of your reading, reflection upon, and writing about the literature.
Students are expected to locate and use multiple and varied sources for this assignment.
Here are the marking criteria for this assignment. —
Organization and clarity of expression and writing
-Accuracy and depth of analysis -Cogency of the arguments presented -Evidence of further research of the topic beyond the readings in the course syllabus -Critical commentary/analysis on topic and implications for HRD -Overall quality of research paper, writing style, grammar use Sentence structure, APA writing style, etc.
