Weekly progress report - Coursework Example

Weekly Progress Report By [Presented to] of Summary of the Activities for the Week This part presents tasks that have been completed by me during the period 4th August-11 August, 2012 based on my research topic. I have been reading the book; Research Methods for Business Students written by Saunders, et al (2007) and based on the readings of chapter, 4, 5, 7, 11 and 12; I gained good amount of knowledge on data collection processes, sampling procedures and research design. This helped me to complete the research methodology chapter on Saturday.

It took an entire day to write the methodology but reading and understanding was going on from last many months. I also gained great insights on ethical issues and accordingly modified my questionnaires by including demographic details and general questions. This. The questionnaires also include questions based on Likert Scale. I modified questionnaires on Sunday and Monday along with reading other relevant information from the book, Research Methods for Business Students. I read chapter-7 based on data analysis on Tuesday and Wednesday for 4 hours each day to gain insights over how to analyse primary and secondary dataOn Wednesday, I started distributing designed questionnaires to identified participants based on snow ball sampling method.

I distributed questionnaires to 25 people on Wednesday personally and 30 more questionnaires were distributed on Thursday. I also identified 45 more respondents in the week and distributed questionnaires to the remaining 45 respondents. Overall, the entire process of distributing questionnaires took 4 hours of time on Wednesday, Thursday and FridayPlan of the Activities for the Week to FollowThis part will explain what I am going to do in the following week 12th August- 18thth August to add more value to my research.

Planned activities are as follow:In the upcoming week, I will be analysing data collected through 100 respondents. I have already received 50 answered questionnaires and by the end of Monday, I am expecting to receive the remaining questionnaires. Once, I receive total numbers of questionnaires, I will be analysing them critically using graphs and charts. I am also reading the secondary information that has been presented in the literature review just to identify the relationship between primary and secondary information, if any.

The idea is to present data in an ethical and transparent manner to highlight the views and opinions of respondents on effective delivery of m-government in Oman. The whole activity will take 2 days of time that means findings chapter will be completed by Tuesday. In the coming week, I have also planned to complete the discussion chapter including current status of m-government in Oman, current issues and way forward. Based on the analysis of primary and secondary data, I will be writing the conclusion and recommendation part.

Overall, planning is to complete discussion and conclusions and recommendations chapters by the end of Wednesday. I am planning to devote 12 hours every day from Monday to Wednesday to complete the entire research process. I personally feel that I have completed majority of the research part and remaining parts will be completed in a systematic and coherent wayIf time allows, I also wish to:Collect feedback from my supervisor Getting in touch with professors along with seeking views and opinions on the research undertaken by me in terms of value, loopholes and recommendations to make it more appropriate .