Demonstrate your ability to conduct research on a specific topic within the scope of Internet marketing communication, learn about relevant literature, synthesize previous findings, formulate hypotheses, design a study, and present your research in the form of an academic paper.
To do
- Select a topic related to communication in virtual organizations.
- Find related literature and offer a critical review.
- Drawing on your literature review, develop and clearly state your hypotheses and/or research questions.
- Describle your plan to investigate your hypotheses/research questions. Make sure you discuss how to operationalize the dependent and independent variables.
- Describe how the data will be analyzed (optional).
Due Dates & Deliverables:
- 4/1: a draft is due before class. All major elements of the paper should be included in the draft.
- 4/28: full paper is due before class time via email.
- The paper should contain no more than 20 pages, including figures and tables. References and appendix are not counted in the page limit.
- References should be in APA style. A minimum of 15 references is required.