Assignment 1, Part 1, requires the following five elements. Each is worth 3 percentage points. I've written in bold some additional comments. A] A ‘field of research’ which pertains to your...

Assignment 1, Part 1, requires the following five elements.  Each is worth 3 percentage points.  I've written in bold some additional comments.
A]  A ‘field of research’ which pertains to your understanding of your profession.  This short statement will include how this field relates to the work of your profession and an industry.  Marks will be deducted if the field of research is very vague, not a business field of research, not related to your profession (which is your specialisation in your degree).
B]  A source of secondary data linked to their chosen field of research.  Students will be required to either include a website with a link to a publicly available secondary data set, or a short description of how they will use publicly available sources as secondary data. Marks will be deducted if the source is not secondary data, not available, not suitable, not related to the field of research.
C]  A research question or questions that can be answered with the secondary data set they identified, including a clear expression of the variables you will be using, and the relationships you plan to explore.  Marks will be deducted for research questions or research aims that cannot be answered by the secondary data, do not clearly identify or link with the variables, does not state clearly what you are expecting to find (rememeber you do not have to be right!  Sometimes studies find the OPPOSITE of what you expect to find).
D]  The search terms you propose to use in Google Scholar to identify literature in the field of the research question. Marks will be deducted for terms that are too vague and loose to provide a tight 'bundle' of research, not related to the research question closely enough, or otherwise 'not viable' (i.e. won't work...e.g. because wrongly spelled, the wrong terms for what is being investigated etc).
E]  You will be asked to pick five articles that arise from the result of your search that you will think be suitable sources to write a literature review in the area of your field of research.  You will be asked to write two sentences that combine at least three of these sources (referenced correctly) and provide the (at least three) sources in a reference list.  Marks will be deducted if less than five articles, not peer-reviewed journals, not properly referenced (APA style), if three citations are not appropriately used in the two sentences, do not relate to the field of research or project in general, or list of references not appropriately formatted.
Remember this first assignment is deliberately small, to allow you to 'safely' make some mistakes, and learn from the experience.