Summative Project Brief $($Marks: $200)$The purpose of this project is to develop your understanding of the processes and techniques of research and develop your ability to engage with a variety of research findings through interpretation and critical analysis of previous research. This will be done in two overarching questions, each with a set of sub questions.You will need to break up each of the three pre$-$selected articles into their various research components in order to identify, compare, analyse, and evaluate the research decisions made. The three pre$-$selected research articles have been chosen because of their sometimes different $($and sometimes similar$)$ approaches to research. You will be required to determine where these similarities and differences lie, and what their consequences are for the various stages in the research process. It is expected that you analyse the research articles by deconstructing the research decisions made by the author$($s$)$ using the theory covered throughout the module. Your understanding of the various elements of the research process will be assessed through your ability to provide an academically sound critique of the research articles, substantiated by a range of academic sources.Various activities on Learn have been created to guide you through the analysis of the three pre$-$selected research articles. All answers provided will need to be well$-$argued using more than one source. It is therefore expected that you undertake additional reading in order to appropriately justify any arguments and$/$or critiques made. You will have to engage with the various paradigms, methodologies, and research expectations for both qualitative and quantitative research as well as the ethical considerations applicable to each. By the end of the semester, you will have applied all the theory you have learned by making sense of why the researchers made the decisions they did, arguing if the decisions were sound, and when asked, providing alternatives. You will need to apply academic literacy skills throughout the project.