Business Plan or Business Proposal

· You must submit your Capstone project each week for grading, regardless of the assignment instructions. You do not have to complete the Attachment for the project.

· You can chose to write your Capstone project from either the MBA or All other folder.

You can chose any type of business or project you want but the work must be a business related subject. Here is a big clue - one of the major components to this project, for me, is to make sure students equate their work to a business problem. Although many problems exist in the workplace, please remember to research how your business problem financially impacts (either positively or negatively) to a specific business or industry.

· Must have a properly formatted Running head and front page set-up.

· Must have a title on the first page

· Work must be double-spaced, 1” margins, and Times New Roman 12pt Font

· Must have a properly formatted and written Executive Summary or Abstract and Table of Contents

· Must contain first and second level headings that mirror the Table of Contents.

· Cannot begin a sentences with It, But, or Because

· Direct quotation "" marks at the beginning and the end of the sentence is needed, and a page number, or paragraph number is also required, for example, (Scott, 2014, p. 20). In a Master's level course, however, students should paraphrase the information rather than present a direct quote from the author.

· All paragraphs must be at least 3-4 well-developed sentences, each sentence not to exceed 40 words.

· Must have at least 3 peer-reviewed references to be awarded the full 30 points. Cannot use on-line magazine articles, such as Ask.com, Forbes, Psychology.net, or dictionaries. Government websites and books are not peer-reviewed; therefore, you can have an 85/15% match where 85% of the references are peer-reviewed and 15% are not.

· Must have properly formatted citations and Reference Page. The Reference page must contain document retrieval information, such as a doi number or the journal’s url. The doi is not capitalized and there is not a space between the doi and the number. doi:10.1348/096317904322915892

If you cannot find the doi number (I use googlescholar.com to start) than go to the journal’s homepage, find the TOC or index, and copy the url.

http://www.ejournals.ph/index.php?journal=BER&page=issue&op=archive

Do not use the retrieval information of the journal article itself, such as

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1754-9434.2007.0002.x/pdf

Finally, and most important… you are not preparing a researched based essay. Therefore, your challenge is to present the information in such a way as you are not, for example, explaining a concept, teaching theory, or presenting information you have read. However, you still must include in-text citations throughout your work.

I suggest you will take on a role in the company and present your work as if you were submitting the plan to an investor for a new business or as a project manager to a stakeholder in the company.

If assignment instructions suggest you include information that you know would never be included in such a professional document, your challenge is to critically evaluate the requirement, and make a determination to its value in the project. If you feel the information is required, you still must meet the challenge of not flipping your work back to a researched essay.