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Since the BAAF course was established most students have undertaken a project of this type. These projects can involve seeking the answer to a question like:

"what is the effect on a company's share price of the company's accounts receiving a qualified auditors' report ?"

"which method of investment appraisal is most used by the widget manufacturers in the Plymouth area and why ?"

Such projects involve researching the issue by collecting and analysing relevant data and drawing conclusions from this analysis. This will involve you in:

5.1 Establishing the question to be addressed.

5.2 Researching the subject thoroughly to discover what knowledge currently exists in the topic area and in the area of data collection methods.

5.3 Deciding what data is necessary to be collected and how you will obtain it.

5.4 Collecting the data (remember that data is not necessarily figures).

5.4 Analysing the data.

5.5 Drawing and stating your conclusions and, making recommendations (where appropriate).

These tasks may not always be able to be carried out strictly in the order in which they appear here. For example it will always be necessary to have undertaken 5.2 to a great extent before you can do 5.1.

You cannot approach your project area as if you are the first person in the world to have looked at the topic concerned, unless you have clearly established that this is true. Where, as will usually be the case, some other researcher has already undertaken and published a study in the same topic area as yours, you must take account of this person's findings and seek to build on them. This is not to say that you are necessarily expected to take the topic into greater depth than has previously been done. It may well be feasible to look at some fairly uncomplicated issue that has yet to be addressed.
Similarly with research methods if, for example, you- are considering collecting data by questionnaire survey, you must not approach this task as if no one in the past has ever conducted such a survey and learnt from the experience. There is a wealth of literature on questionnaire design and survey management. You must seek to benefit from the experiences of others.

Not all standard research projects involve empirical research, as do the two examples given above. It is possible to undertake a 'library based' research project. This involves taking some issue/conflict and analytically reviewing the relevant published literature on it. This analytical review will lead on to the drawing of a conclusion and, where relevant, making a recommendation. Such a project must genuinely produce an analysis which is original, by bringing together the various evidence, thoughts and conclusions of others who have looked at some aspect of the issue.

The fact that library based projects (as with all other projects) must be original means that it is unlikely that a library based project will be acceptable unless it is concerned with some emerging issue. Generally issues which have been around for some time will have been reviewed in this way already.

It will not be particularly easy to find an issue on which a library based project will be acceptable, so it does not repr本论文由英语论文网提供整理，提供论文代写，英语论文代写，代写论文，代写英语论文，代写留学生论文，代写英文论文，留学生论文代写相关核心关键词搜索。