Sustainable Development & the Greening of Business

Sustainable Development & the Greening of Business
RESEARCH PAPER HANDOUT

DEPARTMENT

BAED

PROGRAMME

BA (Hons)

UNIT CODE

CBE 2003

UNIT TITLE

Sustainable Development & the Greening of Business

CREDITS

10

SEMESTER

Autumn 2014

COURSEWORK DETAILS

C/W NUMBER

#2

CONTRIBUTION

 30% of the module final mark

C/W TITLE

Research Paper

C/W TYPE

Group Project (Group of 2 students)

HAND-OUT DATE

Week 1

SUBMISSION DATE

Week 11

FEEDBACK DATE

2 weeks after

LEARNING OUTCOMES

Upon completion of this piece of coursework, students will be able to:

1.     Understand the complex and multiple dimension of sustainable development

2.     Recognize sustainable strategies and policies

3.     Evaluate and justify assumptions about the sustainability of products and companies

4.     Integrate the concept of sustainable development in this/her professional concerns

5.     Write an properly structured paper, selecting and organizing arguments to defend a thesis

ASSESSMENT CRITERIA

1.     Understanding of relevant issues raised by the topic

2.     Quality of the material collected

3.     Demonstration of critical skills

4.     Ability to analyze and use information

5.     Demonstration of group work skills

6.     Coherence of arguments

7.     Awareness of complexities

8.     Citation of sources

9.     Demonstration of competence in referencing and structuring the paper

DETAILED DESCRIPTION

SUBMISSION

Students are expected to submit one copy to Turnitin by Week 11.

Assignments should be 2000 words long (excluding tables, graphs and spreadsheets). There will be a penalty of 10% for those papers exceeding the word limit by more than 10%. In case the word limit has been exceeded by more than 20%, the report will get a mark of 0.

Following the guidelines of the “Students Handbook”, reports should be written using the Times New Roman font at a size of 12 and with 1.5 spacing between lines. There should be clear spacing between paragraphs, sections and subsections. The assignment must have a Departmental cover sheet attached.

Upon completion of the project each student is required to download (from MOLE) and complete the peer evaluation form. If this form is not filled in, then marks will not be released.

Students are expected to follow the below report structure :

§  Table of Contents

§  Introduction and Problem Statement

§  Presentation of the Sustainability Report

§  Analyse of the Sustainability Report

§  Conclusion(s)

§  Bibliography – you must utilise the Harvard Reference System

§  Working links to the Sustainability report and all online material used.

Late submissions are subject to a 5% penalty for each day of delay. Any reports submitted after 7 days from the submission date will get a mark of 0.

TURN IT IN REQUIREMENT

This piece of coursework is required to be submitted to TurnItIn plagiarism detection software at:

            www.turnitin.com

This is an absolute requirement for releasing a mark. Brief instructions on how you can set up your profile and submit your work can be found at:

            http://www.turnitin.com/static/training_support/tii_student_qs.pdf

You are going to require:

If you have any problems in submitting your work, please contact the lecturer.

NOTE

All sentences or passages quoted in this coursework from other people's work should be specifically acknowledged by clear cross-referencing to author, work and page(s). Failure to do this amounts to plagiarism and will be considered grounds for failure in this coursework. It is on the instructor’s discretion to contact an oral examination, which will result to the award of the final grade to that particular piece of coursework.