Part D: Essay Development (15%)

Assessment Question: Evaluate the value of a global

approach to ethics in business.
Overview
This part of the individual assessment is comprised of two sections: 1) Essay plan and 2) Essay
Development Reference
Details
Due Date: Week 8 in workshop
Length: 500 words
Overview: Essay Plan (70/100)
Linking different pieces of information in a structured manner is important. The simplest way to
ensure that your work is structured in such a way is to prepare an essay plan before you start.
Essay plans help with structuring by organising information so that each concept flows logically
from the one preceding. An essay plan also can help you work out how you will answer a question
and which information you will use.
Details: Essay Plan
Students are required to prepare in 500 words an essay plan that address the following
assessment question and includes:
1.A thesis statement which states clearly your position on the essay topic
2. A minimum of 3 arguments that will form the body of your essay and include for each:
a. A topic sentence (or main idea sentence) that states your point
b. An explanation of the point you’re making;
c. Supporting evidence;
d. An evaluation or elaboration of the supporting evidence; and
e. A conclusion which links your outlined paragraph back to the thesis statement.
3. A concluding statement which summarise your main assertions

Assessment Question Will be available by the end of Week 2

Note: All supporting evidence needs to be cited in-text using the Harvard style.
Marking criteria: Essay Development Reference list
Available on the Business Academic Skills vUWS Homepage.
Overview: Essay Development Reference List (30/100)
This part of the assessment is designed to develop students’ research skills and ability to record
the bibliographic details of various scholarly genres of resources including books, scholarly
journal articles, and other published material as well as electronic resources related to the topic
area.
This section will evaluate what students have learnt from the library workshops –
Success Searching and Business Information Basics.
Details: Essay Development Reference List
Students are required to locate and accurately document the bibliographic details of ten (10)
scholarly sources relevant to the assessment question below. There needs to be a representative
sample of scholarly resources (academic journals, books, websites, etc.). For reference details,
students should refer to the College of Business’s Essay Writing and Report Writing Guide or the
Library’s homepage for advice on the Harvard style of referencing.

To complete this part of the assessment task, it is highly recommended that students complete the
homework tasks for workshops 4 and 5. Week 4 homework required students to go through the
library’s Successful Searching workshop and complete the corresponding vUWS quiz. This
workshop explains locating items on the reading list; searching the library catalogue; and
obtaining other basic research skills. Once completed, students should have progressed to the
Business Information Basics library workshop in week 5 which builds on the foundations
established with Successful Searching. Here students are provided with a business-related
assignment topic and shown how to build a bank of relevant information using various business-
specific resources.

Assessment Question:Will be available by the end of Week 2

Note: All the reference may not be appropriate for the final essay, but should demonstrate
that you are aware of the various resources available and are able to record the
bibliographic details accurately in Harvard style.
Marking criteria: Essay Development Reference list
Available on the Business Academic Skills vUWS Homepage.