Author: allie.jafari

It is hard to believe this is the final week for this project. Stress and change of weather must have became a bit much for my body and thankfully Kenneth was very understanding when I reached out for 3 days of extension. I finalised my final report, recorded my presentation and I am about to submit everything. I feel relieved, happy, and a bit proud of myself to deliver this project the way I did.

It was such a stressful week. I wrote the final draft of my introduction and findings section. Discussion and conclusion sections still need more work. I also prepared the initial power point slides for seminar presentation and hopping to finish everything next week.

This week I spent most of my time watching the recordings and analysing the rubric and requirements for A4 task 1 and 2. I wasn’t sure if the in-text citation and reference list should be in APA7 or IEEE; however, one of the students asked Kenneth and he said either could be fine as long as we were consistent throughout the article. While it was good to learn about the differences between the two formats, I decided to keep the APA7 format. I also spent some time developing ideas about how to deliver my presentation.

This week I successfully submitted the annotated bibliography and  my reflective journal. Writing the reflective journal was very helpful since it made me realise my research question needed some modification. I am a bit behind the schedule with recordings and hope to catch up with those next week before starting the final draft of my project.

I had to take an unexpected break due to feeling quite unwell this week. I asked for a few days of extention to deliver A3 which was automatically approved. I should be able to get back to working on my project next week.

This week I watched the recording related to topic 5 (research writing for A4 task 2). I also found 2 new articles about human behaviour and MFA that I am excited about and made some changes to the system evaluation and validation tables, hoping to finalise A3 next week.

 

These 2 weeks we are in mid-season break and I plan to have some time to myself to reflect on what I have been doing for this project so far and how I am going to progress into the final half of this term. I will work on the key attributes and classification tables for best 12 papers and start writing the  annotated bibliography.

This week, I rewarded myself for submitting assessment 2 before the due date and took a break for a few days. Back on track around mid-week, I started to organise my Zotero files and added another few articles to my list. I feel confident to have enough resources to start on the annotated bibliography and Key attributes and classification tables.

Week 5 was for sure the most stressful one since I was almost ready to submit my assignment 2 when we received a new email from Kenneth about what was expected from a good submission. I was happy to still have some time to update my final draft before submission. I realised that the Gantt chart I had made was way too detailed compared the the sample we received but I decided to keep my version as I figured out too much details can not do any harm and after all, a detailed WBS can help me stay on track with my project. By this week, I had more than 15 journal articles and I completed two literature reviews as was expected for assignment 2. I finalised the project plan and the ethical considerations and managed to submit the assignment on time.

In week 4, after watching the weekly videos and completing the Gantt chart, I had a more clear view of what my project was supposed to achieve and look like. I worked on my abstract and added the ” keywords” at the end. I also reviewed my initial research questions and combined their concepts and came up with one final research question that I was happy with. There were some confusions about the research methodology that was most suitable for my project and I had to go through different resources to make sure that “literature review” is an acceptable methodology for the sort of project I am undertaking given the limited time frame. I found more articles to use and kept adding them to Zotero.