Research Activities

Business Quest Investigation Activities

1. In-Text Citation.

In - Text Citation allows the reader to know what ideas, opinion and facts are the author's and what came from the source. The citation also refers the reader/ examiner to the reference page at the end for full citation.
In APA style, in-text citation are composed of author's last name, date/year of publication and the page number. (Truner, 2003,p.34).
If you include a page range, use two ps followed by a period (Wafula,2015,pp.34-35). The sentence period comes at the end of closing parenthesis.

 Additional information
 1. one author stated "..................",(Tally, 2003, p.6).
2. Two authors said, "...................",(Tally,& Deifan,2003, p.7).
3. Three to five authors ".............", (Tally, Daifan,&Mohamed, 2003, pp. 45-46).
4. Six or more authors, ".............",(Tally et al,2003, p. 17).
5. Unknown author use short title (" hip hop art", 2006, p. 7).
6. No date no page  (" hip hop art", n.d, para.1).
N/B:
When using APA format, follow the author-date method of in-text citation. This means that the author's last name and the year of publication for the source should appear in the text, for example, (Jones, 1998) said...., and a complete reference should appear in the reference list at the end of the paper.

 Read more on this link In-Text citation

2. Appendix/appendices.

An appendix (one item) OR appendices (more than one item) is information that is NOT ESSENTIAL to explain your findings in the essay or report that you have written. However, this information may support your analysis and justification of your conclusions. For example the interview questions and answers.

 Therefore, you will need to know that: 

● Appendices are used when the incorporation of material in the body of the work would make it poorly structured or too long and detailed.( Interviews, questionnaires, surveys and their answers can be placed in appendix)

● Appendices may be used for helpful, supporting or essential material that would otherwise clutter, break up or be distracting to the text. ( images, photocopies, drawings, sketches,...)

● Other people’s work in the appendix will be referred to (e.g. see Appendix 3), not quoted (e.g. using short or long quotes) from the appendix.

 ● Appendices must be referred to in the body of the text, for example, ‘details of the questionnaire are given in Appendix B (on page 23)’

- Appendices are put at the end of  references 

Examples of students’ understandings about using appendices Student 1 (reflective writing) 

This example is about a two-page questionnaire that I designed and placed in the appendices. My understanding is that an appendix can be information that you used to inform your writing that you don't want to put directly into the essay; however, you MUST refer to this appendix in the body of the essay Therefore, in my Education essay, I included an appendix that was the actual questionnaire that I gave to my students when I was on teaching practice. In my essay, I wrote for the marker to ‘see Appendix 1’ when I had mentioned the results of the questionnaire I was required to write and use with my class.

 Student 2 (reflective writing)

 In my nursing assignment, my appendices were used to supplement the information in my essay. Firstly, we had to demonstrate our knowledge of the human skeletal system. The photocopied diagrams covered a number of pages, so Appendix 1 was a set of photocopied, labelled diagrams of the skeletal system discussed and referred to in the essay. Because the photocopied diagrams were copied from a book, I placed an in-text reference to this source in my writing. Secondly, we had to summarize the results of interviews with five patients at the local hospital about their recovery from bone breakages in car accidents, so Appendix 2 was a transcript of these interviews. Using appendices like this meant that I could show my lecturer that I had completed the set task and collected the data for the issues that were discussed in the essay

More information on appendix click on this link  How to use Appendix

Read the following business software tools.


http://www.pcworld.com/article/150091/best_business_software.html

Which solution can you use from the list for your solution?  

http://africamentor.com/6-african-technology-innovations-that-are-changing-lives/

Business apps
http://www.businessinsider.com/apple-2013-best-designed-apps-2013-6?op=1

http://www.inc.com/ss/10-tech-innovations-help-your-business#1

Task 1:
You are required to brainstorm and come up with a list of the different problems facing businesses locally and internationally.

Task2 : 

Based on the differeent problems addressed in task 1, identify the possible IT solutions to those problems.

Task3. 

How can we use IT solution to enhance great performance in the Zawadi Bazaar?