Individual Reflective Journal: Effectiveness of Learning Experience in Business Research

Individual Reflective Journal
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1 Effectiveness of learning experience
Reflective writing refers to a diagnostic practice of learning and gaining information over a
course of study. I have summarized my weekly learning and reflection through the following
table;
Week Topic Covered Reflection
1 The nature, process and strategy
of
business research
In this week, I discovered about the nature of
the research problem and why research is
conducted on the particular problem.
2 Research designing and planning It is the identification of the set of methods and
procedures for the different activities of the
research. It is essential to manage the things
timely.
3 Literature Review and Business
Research writing
In this week, I have learnt to use the opinions
and views of the other authors in order to use
them for the research topic.
4 Ethics and Legal Consideration in
Business Research
In the business research, it is also essential to
follow the ethical legislation in order to
execute the research ethically. Ethical
considerations are needed in various activities
of the activities such as during the collection of
data.
5 The Nature of qualitative This week has taught me about how to conduct
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research, sampling and
participant observation
the qualitative research where I got to know
about interviews.
6 Interviewing, Focus Groups and
Language in qualitative research
In this week, I was provided the knowledge
and understanding about interviews, focus
groups and use of languages in the qualitative
research.
7 Qualitative Data Analysis In this week, I learned the analysis techniques
in qualitative research.
8 Sampling in Quantitative
Research
In this week, I gained excess knowledge and
understanding about doing selecting samples in
the quantitative research.
9 Structured Interviewing and
Questionary Design
I gained relevant knowledge and understanding
about structured and semi-structured
interviews.
10 Structured Observation and
Content
Analysis
It was not easy for me to understand the
concept of structured observation and content
analysis.
11 Secondary Analysis and
Quantitative Data Analysis
In this week, I have learnt how to use the
secondary data in order to draw the relevant
findings.
12 Mixed methods research Here in this week, I gained knowledge about
the mixed research approach which is the
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