Research Projects articles in the KEVOS Project Delivery library. 267 pages.
The two dictionary definitions of research used in the teaching source, what it means to say all research generates knowledge, and how a single project adds to a body of knowledge.
Several definitions given for one term, six characteristics of the approach, and two study-note files with identical text and different structure - neither marked current.
The assumptions behind the approach - multiple realities, meaning as the object of study, the researcher as instrument - and the philosophical assumptions the source ties to que…
Numbers, statistics and the testing of hypotheses - the source's account of the quantitative approach, its four stated commitments, and the objectives the week sets and does not…
Research design as the plan that connects question to evidence - and the finding that a week headed Research Design contains no research design content, only a restatement of wh…
Norms that guide moral choices, the written-code distinction from morals, and the rule that ends most arguments: data gathered before clearance cannot be used.
A consolidated audit of what the supplied teaching material promised and what it delivered, week by week, plus the record of which files were missing and what that costs the rea…
One work reports a single survey twice and contradicts itself on eleven quantities; another gives its headline three different values. How it happens, and the check that catches…
A worked failure with no villain - both parties acting reasonably and months lost - plus three competencies that would have prevented it, including a script for disagreeing well.
From 364 words to none at all. Where eight examined works put their limitations, how long they run, and the one that discusses an experiment it never attempted.
Only one of five examined works uses hypotheses. Where the others put their questions, aims and purpose statements - and the restate-and-adjudicate pattern worth copying.
Four sources of research ideas — practical problems in the field, the literature, requests for proposals, and your own thinking — with the source's worked illustration.
The cost and error argument for sampling - including the counter-intuitive claim that examining everything can produce more error than examining a part, and why.
Four separate mechanisms drive the time-cost curve upward, and only one of them is diminishing returns - which is why generic crashing estimates understate the cost of speed.
The six project management role activities mapped against the research process, and the source claim that the primary purpose of research is to reduce the risk of a business dec…
The humbling discovery that your idea has been had before, why students wrongly conclude nothing exists, and the four concrete things a review gives you before you design anything.
Roles and expectations on both sides, how to prepare for a meeting, and the worked question pair that shows why a narrow question gets a better answer than a broad one.
Two drafts of one student's thesis plan, before and after revision - what changed between them, what neither reached, and how much of the shortfall the brief itself caused.
One paragraph, usually 300 words or less, in a prescribed sequence - written last though it appears first, in the past tense, in the active voice where possible.
Citation, introduction, aims and methods, scope, usefulness, limitations, conclusions and reflection - the anatomy of a single annotation, element by element.
An eight-part application structure section by section - aims, methodology, participants, consent, risks, data handling, recordings, and access and ownership.
Where findings are put into context and the reader is left to make up their own mind - the purpose of the discussion, and the trap of writing much with little substance.
The source's eight-step example sequence from problem statement to contribution, why each paragraph must carry a theme rather than a text, and how to keep the argument moving.
Where the problem comes from, how to state it as a gap in current knowledge, and the discipline of reducing it to one statement or question.
Eight components from an opening statement of topic to definitions of specialised terms - including the gap description you will write twice and the four-way choice the source n…
Findings without interpretation, in a logical sequence, in the past tense - what the results section is for, what belongs in it, and the sequence the source sets out.
Every proposal component, report structure, abstract rule, checklist item and schedule figure from the final two weeks on one page, each marked by what kind of claim it is.