Deck 7: Writing up Business Research

Question 1

Rhetoric is concerned with the ways in which attempts to convince or persuade an audience are formulated in language.

Answer 1

True

Question 2

Academic papers, whether qualitative or quantitative, are evaluated according to similar conventions

Answer 2

True

Question 3

The sooner you start to write, the sooner you will gain clarity

Answer 3

True

Question 4

Your main source of feedback during a dissertation is likely to come from whom?

A) Peers
B) Family members
C) Friends
D) Supervisor

Question 5

Which of the following can be a problem when writing journal articles?

A) No theory
B) Amateur style and tone
C) Insufficient definition - theory
D) All of the above

Question 6

Writing up your research is a matter of reporting your findings and drawing your conclusions, it isn't necessary to be persuasive in how you write.

Question 7

Dissertation supervisors should be expected to respond to your drafts immediately, after all you are a paying customer and they are the service provider.

Question 8

Which of the following would not be a section of a quantitative research article?

A) Theory and hypotheses
B) Reflexive evaluation
C) Data and methods
D) Discussion and conclusion

Question 9

In quantitative research, research questions take the form of propositions

Question 10

In a scientific research report, an empiricist repertoire serves to:

A) confuse the reader with long and technical words.
B) demonstrate the researcher's reflexivity about their role in the research process.
C) give the impression that the results were objective and logically inevitable.
D) provide a confessional tale of what went wrong in the procedure.

Question 11

The structure of qualitative and quantitative research is remarkably similar generally.

Question 12

What best characterises the term reflexivity?

A) Where the researcher thinks deeply about the knowledge generation process and the taken-for-granted assumptions
B) Where the researcher disagrees with their informants
C) Where the researcher displays greater flexibility with informants in terms of how the fieldwork will be conducted
D) Where the researcher becomes disenchanted with the research project and opts to choose a different topic

Question 13

A reflexive business researcher will be inclined to write about:

A) The effects that their values, biases and theoretical leanings might have had upon the data collection and analysis.
B) The way in which their findings are objectively truthful and valid.
C) The way in which their findings unfolded naturally and inevitably through logical deduction.
D) The unproblematic and straightforward procedures of designing research, building a rapport with participants and interpreting the findings.

Question 14

Reflexivity is closely linked to the concept of postmodernism

Question 15

Most business practitioners find business research engaging and easy to understand.