Some study to do before Independent Study tutorial 2

Before Independent Study (IS) tutorial 2, I would like you to:

1. Learn how to use university e-library to do some browsing of academic journals to pick  up some IS themes that you would like to consider for your proposal; preferably, you should do some preliminary literature review
2. Do some reading on Research Methods references, e.g. textbook
3. Do some reading on statistics, especially on multiple regression analysis and chi-squared test; I will perform a demonstration on how to use Excel to do multiple-regression analysis and chi-squared test in tutorial 2 on Jan 31.
4. Contact me via email if you have any further problems with your formulation of IS proposal or with things you do not understand in your study of Research Methods.

Although I can offer guidelines and advice to you, the actual formulation of IS proposal requires certain level of intellectual competence on Research Methods and effort to do some preliminary literature review on your part. So, to do well in IS, you need to put in much learning effort; there is no short-cut for the learning process.


References

1. Blog article 1: http://josephho33.blogspot.com/2011/12/research-method-based-on-multiple.html
2. Blog article 2: http://josephho33.blogspot.com/2011/11/conducting-quantitative-analysis-with.html
3. Blog article 3: http://josephho33.blogspot.com/2011/12/on-chi-square-test-brief-note.html