Posted: May 17th, 2016

Briefly describe the key stakeholders, contextual aspects and characteristics of your PfL in terms of people, organisation and technology; explain the main issues associated to your PfL

STAGE 3: Your written report must have three core components.
The first component is an analysis of the type of project complexity associated to your PfL. In order to develop this task you must use one (or maximum two) models from theme 1 that you think will satisfactorily explain your PfL. You do not need to describe the model(s) you are using. You need to apply and explain how the model(s) you have selected help to understand the complexity of your PfL.That is, you need to elaborate on how the type of complexity associated to your project affected the development of the project.

The second componentis the theory section.  Here you need to briefly outline the main arguments, challenges and/or tensions associated to the theories/concepts you selected from themes 1-4.  This involves explaining the connections (complementarities, competing or contradictory views) as well as strengths and weaknesses of theories/concepts used to analyse your PfL. Remember, this section is not a simple summary of some literatures.

The third components,is the actual application of theories/concepts (selected from themes 2-4) explained in the previous section in order to perform an overall analysis of your PfL. Here you need describe links between theories and practice, explain (compare and contrast) ideas and apply them to your PfL raising practical implications. Your explanations must be sustained by a combination of the specific events that occurred in your PfL and concepts/theories you selected to explain them. This means that you need to develop critical explanations regarding how/why conceptual tools and theories help (or do not help) to explain main outcomes of your PfL. Extent to which student recognises the role of embedded assumptions in the ‘models’ or ‘concepts’ applied is very important.

Suggestion of Structure (% indicates suggested size of section in number of words)
    Introduction[10 %]: Briefly describe the key stakeholders, contextual aspects and characteristics of your PfL in terms of people, organisation and technology; explain the main issues associated to your PfL; state & justify the conceptual focus (definition of themes) you will use to explain the project.
    Component one [20%]. This is the first core component of your report.
    Component two [20%]:This is the second core component of your report.
    Component three [40%]:This is the third core component of your report. This is the most important section of your report.
    Conclusion [10%]:This is not a summary of your work. In this section you must reflect about the strengths and/or limitations of tools and concepts used and their connections with the competing contingencies that shaped your project.
    Appendix:Please enclose a copy of your PfL (3 pages maximum). Appendix is not included in the word count.

Specifications and Format
This is a 3000 words report (excluding references, appendix & cover page).
Use Times New Times, font 12, single space.
Pages must be numbered (top right).
In the cover page indicate: Full name; Student ID number; title of PfL (case study); total number of words (excluding references, appendix & cover page).