Deadline: 10 JULY 2014 / Maximum 2,000 words
MN2201K Essay Format
Introduction. Suggest an answer to the question and outline how you intend to validate your suggested answer by clarifying the analytical structure (and maybe, therefore, the thematic thread or point of view you will pursue).
Describe the key theories, concepts, models, and/or debates, and/or areas of critique surrounding the question. Keep this section as short as possible: you need to state the main concepts but you need greater space to do more in order to acquire higher order marks. Try and establish a link with your structure (in themes and ideas) and the following sections.
Key point 1: employ empirical information and quote cases as examples to bring the academic evidences into reality.
Key point 2: try to engage your analysis of the theories, concepts, models and other critical points to your examples and your own opinion (your voice is important when supported by evidences from the literature).
Do you need an extra section that pulls the previous sections together or a section that follows logically from your separate conclusions you make amongst the key points? You may, for example, have analysed late development characteristics, but might now look at one of the large implications, such as which theories, concepts or models are more inclined to explain your findings.
Are there other aspects of the debate that needed to be added, which could not be easily fitted into the structure, but nevertheless remain relevant? Or are there important debates you feel are ignored by the question? For example, you may have analysed the ‘classic’ five forces of Porter, but now need to question its relevance in the global world. You could discuss any other aspects from the literature which you find relevant, but then look at the implications of globalization for any analysis that might be relevant to your final approach in answering the question.