Business & Finance I need a term assignment completed by 16 April 2025

MGMT 615: Term Paper Guidelines

TERM PAPER ASSIGNMENT:

You must write an essay that is tied to some topic that we will be reading about and discussing over the course of the semester.

While your paper must be tied to the specific issues of the course, you will have some latitude in how you approach this assignment. One possibility would, of course, be for you to elaborate some more on the details of an issue that we focus on directly. Or, if you wish, you could focus on a related current issue that has been in the news and then compare, contrast or discuss that specific issue in the context of the arguments made in the readings for the course. Another possibility would be for you to elaborate further on an issue that arises in the discussion forum in the context of the discussion we will be having over the semester. In summary, the basic idea is for you to write on some specific aspect of one of the issues at hand that you believe calls for further scrutiny.

It is usually works best if you write a relatively narrow paper that focuses on a specific issue or question. The term paper is not meant to be a book review; it is meant for you to explore and follow up on some specific issue that is of particular interest to you.

BASIC FORMAT:

Your term paper should have a title that is consistent with the focus and content of the paper. The title should be on a cover page with your name identifying you as the author of the paper below the title.

It is ok to add diagrams and/or photographs to the paper as long as these are specifically intended to support or illustrate the points of the paper, but otherwise there should not be any illustrations of kind in the paper.

The paper must be submitted as a word file that is uploaded in Canvas and I will be grading it in its electronic format, so margins and line spacing are not all that critical. That said, using margins around an inch or so, along with APA double spacing, works well.

ORIGINALITY:

The paper must be your own original work, and it must be written specifically for this class (this means no recycling of old papers written for other classes). The paper will be checked for

originality using turnitin.com. Any citation omissions will affect your paper grade, but significantly plagiarized papers will receive a grade of zero, with no exceptions and with no do-overs.

LENGTH:

While the length of your paper must of course depend on your chosen topic, your papers should be at least 2000 words exclusive of the title page, and references.

SPELLING AND GRAMMAR:

You should double check the grammar and the spelling of the paper before you submit it. Keep in mind that the quality of your writing (i.e., your phrasing, punctuation, grammar and spelling) is important.

CITATIONS & CITATION STYLE:

You must cite all your sources, and you must cite these sources using APA.

REFERENCES:

The last section of your paper must be a list of references. Your references must correspond to your citations in the text of your paper and must be completely consistent with APA style. Points will be deducted from the grade for any paper that mixes up different citation styles. Your reference list should not include any sources other than those that you cite in the text of your paper, but it must also include every item that you cite or discuss, including the course material. Your reference list should begin on a new page (i.e., put a page break in front of the reference list).