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This module serves to develop academic study skills with particular emphasis on building your confidence as an independent learner and your academic writing skills. It will provide practice in other academic skills such as referencing, strategies for avoiding plagiarism, the difference between essay and report writing and how to search for relevant information effectively. You will practise using critical thinking skills, formal and informal presentation skills and learn how to get the most out lectures, seminars and tutorials.

In this capstone module you will have the opportunity to bring together multiple elements of the programme to design, plan and execute an extended piece of work in critical research or professional enquiry to address a real contemporary business, organisational, or sector issue, challenge, or problem. This may involve research within an organisation, sector-based empirical research, or simulation-based research. You will be given a thorough grounding in fundamental research paradigms, strategies, and methods with opportunities, as appropriate, for more specialised research training according to project focus and interest. You will negotiate the major outputs of your research: for example, you may opt for a traditional dissertation or choose from more contemporary instruments of attainment, such as a research paper, professional portfolio of artefacts, etc. Whichever route you choose you will begin your project with a public pitching of your proposed area of research and close the module by participating in an end of MBA showcase. The GAME+ attributes covered in this module are: Influence and Impact; Critical Self-Management; Critical Creativity; Professional Identity and Innovation and Skills Mastery.

In this non-credit bearing, compulsory module, you will consolidate and develop your academic and research skills; and clarify and strengthen your professional practice. To support this, the module comprises two aspects: academic and research skills, including writing styles, critical analysis, data collection and analysis, critical reflection, etc.; and professional development: personal and professional development planning, career planning, reflection and praxis. An innovative aspect of this is the reflection on professional development: this will draw upon elements of the compulsory and optional modules (of your programme) in its construction, and you will use to synthesise your own 'bigger' picture of the MBA and how it pertains to your (future) professional practice, praxis, aspirations, and development.

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