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Assignment: E-Commerce Live Streaming in China Paper- Research Design and Analysis

The main aim of this assignment is to test your understanding of approaches to Research Design and Analysis. In particular, it will assess your ability to identify and justify appropriate research methods and analyses to address clearly articulated research questions.

In addition, it is designed to give you a basis from which you may develop your dissertation. In other words, there will likely be significant overlap of topic in this assignment, your dissertation proposal and your final dissertation. Note the following:

1. This assignment it is NOT your dissertation proposal - your dissertation proposal will be required separately, depending on your Programme's dissertation requirement (and it is likely to be required before the submission date for this assignment). This assignment is independent from the dissertation proposal, although it is designed to be useful to you as you develop your dissertation.

2. If you do develop this assignment for your dissertation, you should not use content from this assignment word for word in your dissertation as this might result in self-plagiarism.

3. In some circumstances it may not be possible or desirable to develop this assignment for your dissertation (e.g. your chosen topic is deemed not appropriate/too ambitious/not timely or relevant/supervision in this domain not available etc). In this case you will need to develop an appropriate alternative topic for your dissertation, independently from this assignment.

4. You are under no compulsion to develop this assignment for your dissertation, (although in most cases, this is recommended).

5. You may discuss your dissertation research ideas with your programme director, dissertation module leader and dissertation supervisor, but under no circumstances should they be asked to read/comment on this assignment.

6. If you fail this assignment, the resit assignment will require you to design a new research plan on a topic that will be provided for you, that is independent from, and unrelated to, your dissertation.

In brief, for this assignment you are required to:

1. Craft a research question or hypothesis that could be suitable to develop for your dissertation

2. Design a research project to address your research question or to test your hypothesis.

Both elements have a number of sub-questions that your assignment should address (the marks allocated for each section are indicated in parentheses)

I. Craft a research question or hypothesis that could be suitable for your dissertation.

1. State your research question or hypothesis succinctly and clearly.

Justify it by answering the following:

2. What does the literature say about your chosen topic, and how has this helped you to make your question or hypothesis more specific? A brief literature review is required (approximately 500 words). You will need to supplement this considerably if you develop this assignment for your dissertation.

3. Describe why your research is timely and relevant, by drawing on contemporary theoretical or applied issues you identify as being of particular importance. Explain how you are using them to support (justify) your choice of question or hypothesis.

4. Explain the philosophical considerations (ontology, epistemology and axiology) which need to be taken into account and discuss how they have influenced your choice of question or hypothesis.

5. Evaluate whether the research should be inductive or deductive.

II. Design a research project to answer your question or to test your hypothesis.

1. Describe, evaluate and justify your proposed research design, method of data collection and method of data analysis.

2. Explain what ethical considerations need to be taken in account and how you will deal with these.

3. Describe and briefly evaluate an alternative way in which you could carry out research to answer your question or test your hypothesis.