management assignment

MGMT 450 – Strategy and Competitive Advantage Carl Francis Week 3 Written Assignment – Due by 6 pm on SUNDAY FEBRUARY 5th via BB Turnitin DISCUSS THE FOLLOWING – one or two pages is plenty; single or double-spaced, your choice. Choose either:

a. The two-part ChapterCase 3 on Tesla Motors in the Textbook (pages 113 and 143);

b. OR the three-page case entitled Apple: What’s Next at the back of the Textbook on page 575.

Your two-page paper this week is to analyze the External Environment (as discussed in Chapter 3 of your Textbook) of one of these companies. Your choice which company. You may wish to do a bit of additional online research to supplement what is available in the textbook cases. That is fine; just make sure to attribute any material you use like this:

(Name of article (create a link to article), Author (if any), Name of publication or website, Page number if shown and Date of publication)

You can show your source info right in the text near the material you included or as a footnote at the end of the paper. Up to you. Be sure to draw first from COURSE CONTENT (text, lectures, videos, cases, articles, etc.) and support what you write with several quotes or references, being sure to put them in quotes and give the source and page number (Text, page 48; Porter article, page 4; Jameson video, 5:10). Make it sound authentic and plausible – and reflect what you picked up as you read the text and completed the other materials this week. Show me that you are reading and learning from the course materials. When you are finished, go to BB Learn and find Turnitin and look for Wk3Paper and follow the instructions on how to upload your Word format document. For tips and suggestions on improving your papers, and getting better grades, see the next page >>

MGMT 450 – Strategy and Competitive Advantage Carl Francis Week 3 Written Assignment – Due by 6 pm on SUNDAY FEBRUARY 5th via BB Turnitin SEVEN SUGGESTIONS FOR BETTER PAPERS AND BETTER GRADES Think about – and figure out – what you want to say before you start writing. What’s your main point? What matters most in your paper? Then put your ideas down and start filling out the sections. Write your paper for me as though I am your future boss. Make it well-planned, well-written and the very best writing you have ever done. Review and edit and proof. Doing this can save you in this class – and in your future jobs many times. NEVER submit anything without checking it over carefully and fixing any errors. Read your paper out loud. I know, this sounds crazy, but I learned this from a great writer I knew. He was right. You’ll hear bad grammar, repeated words, poor sentence construction and spot mistakes more easily than reading it off your screen. Not kidding. Don’t wait until the last minute. Give yourself time to review, polish and correct your work. Papers submitted the last few hours before deadline are almost always the weakest. What you probably don’t know – Turnitin stacks the papers in the order they are turned in. I (and other instructors) always know who was in first and who is in right before the deadline or after. Each paper is time stamped. Be careful of inadvertent plagiarism. Anything you include verbatim from any source, electronic or print, has to be put in quotes and the source identified. Turnitin is incredible at catching text that is lifted from publications, textbooks, websites and other student and college papers. It’s amazing. But don’t think you won’t get caught. Just source each part you include. That’s fine, but not telling me where it came from isn’t. I have great confidence in you. Give me your best writing and thinking of your four years here at Drexel.