Referred/Deferred Assignment 2 - Professional Reflection
Assignment Brief
For this assignment you must produce a personal professional reflection on your performance in the constructing of your assignment one, project proposal for this module. This assessmentcontributes 20% to your overall grade. The resulting reflection must be presented in a report format, using headings and sub-heading where appropriate. As with all academic workyou are expected to engage with literature to inform your practice
The followingis a suggested structure for yourreport:
1. Critical discussion of challengesencountered in the
construction of each section of the proposal.
2. Critical discussion of your interaction and use of support personnel,
such as, tutors/peers/supervisors
3. Critical discussion of skillsrequired/used for successful construction
of the proposal
4. Critical discussion of lessonslearntfrom the process and strategies to adopt
to move forward.
5. You are required to produce aprofessionaldevelopment plan seeBlackboard for suggestedtemplate. You should set out a number of goals based on yourmaster’sproject, and anycareer aspirations, thenusingyourexperiences, encountered in this module and in yourpreviouslearningopportunities, complete the supportyou will need as, outlined in the PDP template on Blackboard, necessary to achieve these goals.
References: these should be primarily used to support all your discussions. All references in the reference list must also appear within the body of the report.
Presentation Guidelines - The report must include:
Front sheet:
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Module:
KF7028 – Research and Project Management
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Module
tutor: Shelagh Keogh
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Assignment
title: Personal Professional Reflection
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Student
name + university identifier (always underline the surname/family name by which
you are recorded in the university systems)
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Programme
or course of study
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Word
Count: Word count minus the appendices
Notes on presentation & submission:
The
report must be written and presented to an appropriate academic standard for a
postgraduate programme of study. The report
will be assessed in terms of style, meaning, and the accuracy of spelling,
grammar, punctuation and syntax.
· Correct and thorough referencing of your sources of information is required. You should follow a consistent referencing system, and provide a full reference list and brief references in the text of your answer. ‘Cite them Right’ advises direct quotations should be indicated by quotation marks or indentation, and referenced. Failure to acknowledge your sources or to indicate when you are quoting constitutes plagiarism. Action will be taken in accordance with the University regulations if academic misconduct is suspected.
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Using MS Word and show appropriate and consistent
use of type, fonts and line spacing (for this assignment use Arial 12 and
single spacing) and page layouts.
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Give
each page a footer that includes your student number, the module code, and a
page number.
Further advice on
these issues, can be found
on:
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Northumbria
University (2016) Skills Plus help guides, Online. Available at: http://nuweb2.northumbria.ac.uk/library/skillsplus/index.html. (Accessed 05.09.16)
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Northumbria University (2015)
“Regulations and procedures applying to cheating, plagiarism and other forms of
academic misconduct.” Online. Available at: https://www.northumbria.ac.uk/static/5007/arpdf/accmisprocedure(Accessed
05.09.16)
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Northumbria University (no date), A student guide to avoiding academic
misconduct, http://www.northumbria.ac.uk/static/worddocuments/ardocs/amstudentguide.doc(Accessed:
05.09.16)
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Pears, R. & Shields, G.
(2013) Cite Them Right: the essential referencing guide, 9th edn.
Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. Online.
Available at: http://www.citethemrightonline.com/.available from the
university search facilities: -
http://librarysearch.northumbria.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=northumbria.
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