Table of Contents
- Section 1: Time Management
- Time Management checklist
- Section 2: Introduction to the Investigation
- What is the Food and Hospitality Investigation?
- – The procedures involved in preparing an Investigation
- Verification of own work
- SACE word-count policy
- Student research policy
- Keys to doing well
- Assessment design criteria & specific features
- Investigation and critical analysis
- Evaluation
- How the Investigation is assessed
- Performance standards
- Advice before starting your Investigation
- Section checkpoint
- Section 3: Getting Started
- Background research
- Choosing an issue
- Where else can you find an issue?
- Formulating a hypothesis or research question
- Focusing questions
- Section checkpoint
- Section 4: Researching your contemporary issue
- Sources of information
- Primary sources
- Collecting data
- Surveys and questionnaires
- Planning survey questions
- Interviews
- Secondary sources
- Referencing
- Harvard or in-text referencing
- Footnoting
- Reference list
- Section checkpoint
- Section 5: Analysis and evaluation
- Sorting through your information
- Analysing your information
- Bias
- Evaluating
- Review your information before writing
- Section checkpoint
- Section 6: Writing the Investigation
- Structure of the Investigation
- Drafting
- How to write the introduction
- How to write the body of the investigation
- How to present primary data
- Survey or observational data
- How to write the conclusion of the Investigation
- Reference list
- Section checkpoint
- Section 7: Final checklists
- Final study checklist
- Verification sheet checklist