Research Report Breakdown

Due Week 14, Friday 8th June

40%

The report for Media Industries 1 needs to reflect (both in depth and breadth) a semesters worth of enquiry and consistent work. The research project should seek to build on work of students from previous years rather than duplicate them. The format for your report must be presented in terms of the problem (i.e. appropriate to your research and the audience you aim to reach), publishable and easily accessible to your identified audience. It should reflect the equivalent of approximately 4,000 words per student.


Rationale

Working as a professional in the contemporary media landscape requires many skills and divsere knowledge sets. It requires you to be aware of a range of emerging technoogical forms and cultural debates. (THIS IS THE STUFF I'M WANTING TO LEARN ABOUT!! Refer to earlier blog post on learning outcomes) Accordingly the research you have conducted this semester needs to reflect -

• Sound knowledge of media industries in terms of infrastructure, culture, key players and policy
• An understanding of the importance of networks and networking in the media industries
• Professional media industry practices
• The ability to express professional research in appropriate forms

Assessment

The research report should:

• It shuld give readers a clear understanding og the research problem and why it merited an in-depth investigation
• It should describe exactly how date was collected in an attempt to resolve the problem
• It should present the data precisely and completely. The data presented in the report should substantiate all the interpretations and conclusions the report contains
• It should interpret the data for the reader and demonstrate exactly how the data resolves the research problem. A report that merely presents raw data and uninterrupted facts (in the form of graphs, interviews etc) is of little help to the reader.
  

Research reports that utilise the above guidelines, show depth and breadth of research, provide clear pathways for the reader in interpreting the data, demonstrate consistency and clarity in the presentation of the data and findings, and include a comprehensive and properly referenced bibliography will attract the highest results.

Despite the fact I know that there is a LOT of work I'm going to have to do for this project, I'm actually really excited about it and the knowledge I will walk away from it with. This clearly addresses one of the main learning ouctomes I wanted to focus on this year, which is a broad understanding of everything to do with the Media Industry: infrastructure, culture, key players, policy and issues. :)