HBC201 SUSS TMA02 January 2025: Research Methods For The Social And Behavioural Sciences, Singapore

TUTOR-MARKED ASSIGNMENT (TMA02)

This assignment is worth 20% of the final mark for HBC201 Research Methods for the Social and Behavioural Sciences. The cut-off date for this assignment is Tuesday, 25 February 2025, 11.55pm.

Note to Students:
You are to include the following particulars in your submission: Course Code, Title of the TMA (if applicable), SUSS PI No., Your Name, and Submission Date.
Your TMA will be marked holistically. Marks allocated for each question suggests the relative importance of each question. Please take note of the following when you work on this TMA:

• Label each question and the respective answer clearly in your TMA.
• Apply concepts covered in this course and information provided in the given journal article to answer each TMA question.
• Conduct additional research and use relevant information to strengthen your responses to questions in this TMA.
• It is important that you elaborate your response for each question. Illustrate your points with appropriate examples and structure your reasoning in a logical and cohesive manner.

• Include in-text citations and bibliography properly in the American Psychological Association (APA7) format. Using information from electronic or printed materials without proper citations/references is considered plagiarism.

• Refer to APA guidelines about how to quote or paraphrase information from
electronic or printed materials properly. You are advised to write responses in your own words. Do NOT copy and paste any information from any source, even if citations and a reference section are included in your assignment. Please use proper language and structure in writing your essay. Up to 5 marks can be deducted for grammatical, punctuation, and spelling errors.
Citations and a reference section in APA7 format are expected. Up to 5 marks can be deducted for incorrect and/or inadequate citations and references.
The word limit of this TMA is 1,400 words, including in-text citations, but excluding references and appendices. Please provide a word count at the end of your TMA. Note that a further 5% of your final grade will be deducted if your TMA exceeds the word limit.
Please use the cover page that is provided in the L-group folder. A penalty of 5% of your final grade will be imposed if any other school cover page (e.g., Psychology, Sociology, or any other programme cover page) is included in the final submission of your assignment via Turn it in. No appeals concerning the cover page will be entertained.

Content that is generated by AI software (e.g., ChatGPT) without citation/declaration is not allowed. If you include any AI-generated content in your assignments, please cite it according to SUSS guidelines on the use of AI. For example, direct quotes must be placed within quotation marks and their sources must be indicated. Do note that the use of AI- generated content is subject to similar plagiarism rules as the use of published sources. As in the case with published sources, AI should never take over or drown out your voice as the author of the essay, but should only serve as a source of ideas and arguments, examples, or illustrations, etc. to help you present your position on an issue.

Submission

It is strongly recommended that you make an early submission to check the originality report and, if necessary, make amendments to your document for resubmission. Note that the Turn it in report is usually generated immediately after the first submission, however, subsequent reports may take up to one day to generate. Do note that Turn it in will not accept any further submissions AFTER the cut-off time. There is a 12-hour grace period after the cut-off time, which is not an extended deadline but solely meant for solving any technical
problems that you may encounter while attempting to make a submission before the cut-off time. Please email Canvas Support immediately (with relevant screenshots and your TMA attached) and follow up with Canvas Support first thing in the morning to ensure that the problem is resolved before the grace period is over.One late submission is allowed only if no prior submissions were made before the cut-off time. Do note that the Canvas system will automatically deduct penalty marks for every day that your assignment is late. With this automatic deduction, there will be no need to request for extensions from your tutor because your tutor does not have the mandate to over-ride the Canvas system settings. You will need to form your own judgement as to how many marks you are willing to forego for each extra day that you gain to work on your assignment.
Take care to ensure that you upload the correct TMA document to the correct folder of the correct course. Requests to transfer incorrectly uploaded documents to the correct folder will require an official appeal (and an administrative fee). Backup your TMA at all times. Once you have uploaded your TMA (in Word document format only), retain the Turn it in digital receipt as evidence of a successful submission. View your submission to ensure that the entire document has been uploaded successfully.

Plagiarism and Collusion

The assignment is to be completed on your own. You may discuss the TMA with your course-mates; however, the assignment must be written independently. Do not share your notes, draft or final TMA with anyone before the marked TMAs are returned to you. Avoid plagiarism by giving yourself sufficient time to research and understand the material so that you can write up your assignment in your own words. Quotations should be used sparingly. Simply citing the source of ‘copied’ chunks of text does not excuse it from plagiarism. Do ensure that any paraphrasing is done appropriately, even if you use text from your own work that you have submitted as part of another assignment for the same or another course.
The University takes a very serious view of plagiarism (passing off someone else’s ideas as your own, or recycling of contents from your own earlier marked TMA from the same course or another course) and collusion (submitting an assignment which is the same or very similar to another student’s). Both are very serious academic offences. Please refer to the Student. Handbook on the penalties of plagiarism or collusion. You are strongly advised to submit your TMA early, check the plagiarism report yourself, and if needed revise and resubmit your TMA before the submission deadline.