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Whether completing an undergraduate course at honours level or embarking on postgraduate research, a student must be equipped to understand some essential research fundamentals. The student must appreciate the appropriateness of writing style and expression, particularly for the purpose of preparing a project proposal or submitting a paper to a learned journal. The student must be conversant with ethical issues, particularly with the need to report results honestly, to avoid plagiarism and to acknowledge source material in a proper manner. The student must understand the planning, purpose and significance of data collection, with insight into methods of extracting meaningful conclusions from it.

The course provides students with the ability to (critically) evaluate research literature including conference papers and journal articles in order to determine the current state of knowledge. In addition, the course will instruct students in the principles of research to enable them to conduct research and prepare an original project in their professional area of interest. Students will be instructed how to propose and justify an appropriate research plan for a particular research problem, to choose and apply appropriate methodology, to judge the degree to which conclusions are supported by data, to judge the logical consistency of written material and evaluate the outcome of a research project in terms of useable knowledge, and to design, defend and evaluate research proposals, and to apply techniques for writing clear and well expressed technical papers and reports.

The course objectives define the student learning outcomes for a course. On completion of this course, students should be able to:

1. use information systems effectively;
2. judge the degree to which conclusions are supported by data and the logical consistency of written material, and to write a critical review of the relevant literature;
3. understand and analyse the ethical issues raised in a range of research situations, and have a clear appreciation of the foundations of ethics in research;
4. propose and justify an appropriate research plan for a particular research problem;
5. choose and apply an appropriate experimental design to a particular research problem;
6. perform numerical analyses;
7. understand and apply a range of standard techniques for instrumentation and data acquisition;
8. understand the principles of good writing, and be able to analyse and edit technical papers written by others;
9. prepare a well written and concise research paper or report;
10. develop and write a research proposal for their discipline area;
11. (if appropriate) commence their project (course ENG8002 Project and Dissertation) in the semester following based on the proposal developed.