BSAD

AVOID these Common Mistakes

• _Not asking questions about this assignment in class that are unclear to you. • _Asking questions that are clearly answered in these or other instructions. • _Interviewing a business that is too small in scope which lacks the professional insights. Warning Signs: Part-time, home-based, sole owner recent startup, your own family or does not have a website or social media presence. • _No or incomplete Title Page. • _Not describing the business and owner in the opening paragraph and summarizing your paper in a concluding paragraph. • _Not outlining your thoughts before writing to create a logical flow. • _Not Applying course concepts and not citing and referencing the textbook • _Filling the pages with long quotations from the interview, textbook or website. • _Not Applying course concepts and references for materials covered in class outside the textbook. • _Not incorporating the SWOT Analysis in the text of the paper • _Misclassifying SWOT Categories • _Not summarizing the SWOT Analysis at the end before the references. • _Not citing and referencing the business website • _Not running the Review/Editor (F7) and correcting all the errors except proper names. • _Less than or over than specified page length. I will stop reading at five pages. • _Submitting the assignment in any other format than Word with a docx extension. Unreadable documents are considered late until properly submitted with penalty. • _Not reading the assignment out loud to yourself and asking someone to read it to you before submitting it. • _Submitting the assignment late • _Not doing a final check of the rubric and these instructions before submitting your assignment