, COM4809 Assignment 1 (COMPLETE ANSWERS)
Semester 1 2025 - 2025; 100% correct solutions and
explanations.
In this assignment, you are required to contextualise your
research problem and topic. As we said above, you will choose
either option 1, option 2 or option 3 as your research focus for
the year. This means that you must describe the overall (broad)
context in which your topic/problem arises. Explain some of the
related debates and some of the historical, social or political
contexts of your topic. You must demonstrate that you are able
to situate your topic within a particular context (a particular field
of study, culture, environment, place, political discourse and at
a particular time in history). In other words, you must provide
the background to your topic. This is how you will introduce
your study and explain why your research is important and
relevant. You should also be able to describe how your topic is
relevant to the academic field of communication studies.
Then you must explain your research problem and your
objectives. Why is your particular research problem a problem
at all? How do you aim to resolve it, and why? What do you aim
to do in your study and what are your objectives?
In order to complete this assignment successfully, you will need
to demonstrate that you have already done quite a lot of reading
on your topic – you need to show us that you are sufficiently
Semester 1 2025 - 2025; 100% correct solutions and
explanations.
In this assignment, you are required to contextualise your
research problem and topic. As we said above, you will choose
either option 1, option 2 or option 3 as your research focus for
the year. This means that you must describe the overall (broad)
context in which your topic/problem arises. Explain some of the
related debates and some of the historical, social or political
contexts of your topic. You must demonstrate that you are able
to situate your topic within a particular context (a particular field
of study, culture, environment, place, political discourse and at
a particular time in history). In other words, you must provide
the background to your topic. This is how you will introduce
your study and explain why your research is important and
relevant. You should also be able to describe how your topic is
relevant to the academic field of communication studies.
Then you must explain your research problem and your
objectives. Why is your particular research problem a problem
at all? How do you aim to resolve it, and why? What do you aim
to do in your study and what are your objectives?
In order to complete this assignment successfully, you will need
to demonstrate that you have already done quite a lot of reading
on your topic – you need to show us that you are sufficiently