Final Essay Writing Assignment
(Worth 25% of Course Grade)
Delivery Method: Uploaded to Assignments Section under category Final Essay Submission
Due Date: Tuesday, April 10, 2020 not later than 1:00 PM
Late Submissions: After Class deadline: 10% loss in marks for per day late
After 3 days: The final essay automatically receives a zero mark
Essay Topic- Social Entrepreneurship – This topic must consider their impact on global business and how global managers will react, plan and deal with related issues.
Essay Requirements:
The essay is a well-structured research paper that opens with an introduction (introduces the Thesis Statement), well- researched arguments (minimum 2-3) with a clear conclusion in support of your Thesis Statement.
Based on your approved topic write and submit an essay which has the following elements:
Introduction: An introductory paragraph that catches the reader’s attention and states the relevance of your topic (any background or current issues), identifying your Thesis Statement.
Body: The body should be formatted with arguments which support and defend the Thesis These arguments need to:
Be well organized and flow from a logical start to a strong
It also needs to demonstrate the significance of your topic from a global business
Clearly support, defend or justify the thesis as
Include evidence to demonstrate width/depth of
VI. To be written in descriptive form by not inserting any image, graph or table etc.
Have good quality writing:
Grammar, punctuation & spelling are virtually
Language and word choice are appropriate
Be well formatted and pleasant to read:
Has an opening and concluding
The essay follows scholarly conventions including proper formatting, citation methods and is virtually
Be original:
Your paper can use quotes from your research, but cannot comprise more than 10% of your
Make sure you take advantage of the Originality Check.
iii. During Originality Check on Turntin if it is found that essay content has been put in without using appropriate citations or referencing then a case of Academic Dishonesty will be filed.
Before the due date in order to conduct Originality Check, you may make a multiple number of essay submissions into the assignment folder. However, your latest submission will be treated as your final
Have the following length and format:
Between 10 to12 pages excluding title page and reference pages in Times New Roman or Ariel, 12 points font & double-spaced
Title Page must include:
ü
Course Name, Code and Section
Semester – Winter2020
Essay Title
ü
Student Name
ü
Professor Name
ü Date of Submission
Create a thread:
Starting from the Thesis Statement, create a thread of logic that will follow throughout the essay. This thread will be built on your research findings.
The thread needs to be directly related to your
Creating a thread means it will have an introduction, body, conclusion – all focused on supporting the Thesis
Wrap up your essay with a strong concluding paragraph that summarizes your essay with a strong concluding paragraph that summarizes your arguments and affirm your Thesis Statement. In references use the APA standard formatting (sixth edition).
Your Essay will be evaluated using the following rubric:
Excellent 9-10pts Good 7-8 pts Average 5-6 pts Poor 1-4 pts
Essay Arguments (50%)
Organization
Essay proceeds logically from Essay includes some logical Significant logical The essay is illogical, incoherent,
start to finish and is coherent inconsistencies, but they hardly inconsistencies in parts of the and as a result completely
throughout. detract from the overall paper make the
unconvincing.
coherence Of the overall credibility of the
argument
argument somewhat
dubious.
Thesis Quality
Thesis, whether implicit or Thesis, whether implicit or Thesis is identifiable in Essay does not contain–either
explicit, is absolutely clear explicit, is clear and some form, with effort.
implicitly or explicitly-a thesis.
and highly original. deliberate.
Essay
effectively recognizes a
variety of
points of view.
Objectivity
Essay demonstrates masterful grasp of sides of the issue. a all Essay effectively recognizes a variety of points of view.
Essay is clearly, albeit unintentionally, partial. It either fails to deal with contrary points of view out of ignorance or deals
with them unfairly.
Essay is deliberately not impartial. The author has used the paper as a pulpit instead of as a framework for rigorous critical analysis.
Analysis
Analytical abilities on display are clearly superior and reflect an originality of thinking. Analytical abilities on display demonstrate an ability to separate ideas into their component parts.
Analytical abilities on display are inconsistent. Some ideas are clear and fully understood; others are
not.
Paper reproduces arguments from other sources without any evidence of understanding.
Evidence supporting arguments and Thesis Statement (35%)
Depth
Essay draws from sources that represent the best information on the subject. Quantity exceeds
expectations.
Essay draws from a legitimate variety of information. Quantity of sources meets or exceeds expectations. While the essay might draw from a number of sources, but the information obtained is largely surface level. Essay is drawn largely, if not exclusively, from inappropriate material.
Breadth
Essay draws from an impressive variety of sources and perspectives. Essay draws acceptable sources perspectives. from variety an of and
Sources either come from a single perspective or are
insufficient to meet the
demands of the assignment.
Sources are excessively limited quantity and
Represent an excessively limited point of view.
both
in
Synthesis
Presentation of the evidence demonstrates a masterful understanding of its themes, both specific and general. Presentation Of the evidence demonstrates a clear understanding of its themes, both specific and general.
Presentation of the evidence demonstrates
a flawed understanding of either its specific or general
themes.
Presentation of the evidence demonstrates a flawed understanding of both its specific and general themes.
Relevance
Evidence is directly applicable to the analysis throughout Evidence is largely applicable To the analysis throughout. Some of the evidence is clearly tangential and detracts from the credibility of the argument. Evidence does not contribute to a fulfillment of the goals of the assignment.
Quality of Writing (10%)
Grammar, punctuation, Limited flaws in grammar, Significant flaws in some Paper is incoherent because
Grammar & spellings are virtually punctuation, and/or spelling of grammar, punctuation, of flaws in grammar,
Language flawless. Language and do not detract from the spelling, language and/or punctuation, spelling, language,
word choice are overall message of the word choice.
and/or word choice.
appropriate throughout. essay. Some minor
problems with language and
word choice are noted, but
not problematic.
Essay follows scholarly Only minor flaws in terms of Significant flaws in terms of Paper displays a blatant
Quality of conventions including scholarly conventions formatting & scholarly disregard for proper formatting
Format proper formatting & citation including formatting & citation conventions
(likely & scholarly conventions.
(5%) methods which are virtually methods.
including problems with
free from flaw.
citation methods).
