Coursework Assessment
Submission Date: No later than 12 o’clock (Midday) on 10 th January 2020.
Submit via Turnitin complete with cover sheet containing completed self-assessment
form. Include Action Plan from original feedback where appropriate.
Students are required to answer one of the following questions in the form of a
continuous essay of approximately 2,000 words (+/-10%). The essay should be
written using Harvard Referencing to support your discussion and ideas. You should
use data, graphs and diagrams where appropriate in order to achieve Learning
Outcome 3: Application of analysis tools.
Essay One:
“To ensure a green future the UK cannot rely on free markets alone. The scale of the
climate emergency requires nothing less than full government engagement.”
Partington, R. (7 th July 2019)
Your task is to:
 Explain how the market mechanism operates with regard to the
allocation of resources, and critically analyse the importance of
government engagement concerning climate change.
OR
Essay Two:
“How the state runs business in China. Much of modern China’s epic growth was
driven by private enterprise – but under Xi Jinping, the Communist party has
returned to being the ultimate authority in business as well as politics.” McGregor, R.
(25 th July 2018) The Guardian Long Read.
Your task is to:
 Explain the importance of different political environments in which
businesses operate. Critically analyse these differences, citing
examples of how they might influence business in either positive or
negative ways.
Writing the Essay:
To help you in the task, you are advised to adopt the following guidelines:
Step One = The Information required
 Since you are required to write a continuous 2,000 word
continuous essay using Harvard referencing using a range of
tools of analysis, your first task will be to understand what the
question is asking you to do.
 Once you are satisfied that you understand the question,
formulate an essay plan. You need an introduction, which sets
out your terms of reference. You need to define technical
terms. You need to consider the order in which you are going to
present your discussion. This is an important aspect of essay
writing, as you need to be able to link paragraphs without the
use of bullet points or sub-headers. You will need to provide a
conclusion, which acts as a brief summary of your findings.
Step Two = Collecting, Managing and Using References and Data
 Having established what you are going to do to answer the question, you now
need to collect sufficient data, from text books, journal articles, the Economist
or quality press to use in the essay.
 Identify the lecture and seminar sessions, which cover the topic in the Module
Information Pack. Look at the readings listed as a starting point for your
research.
 Keep a detailed note of the sources you use to obtain your ideas and support
for your answer. Note, you should avoid cutting and pasting material. This
practice is dangerous, as it may lead to the academic offence of plagiarism.
Write the ideas down in your own words. Give a reference to recognise
where the original idea, or the support for your argument came from. E.g:
Sloman (2017) suggested that there is a relationship between free markets
and poor social cohesion. Whilst you are only paraphrasing the many lines of
text used to convey the argument in the original text, you are showing that you
have understood the idea, and have acknowledged that it originally came from
Sloman and not from you.
 Try to avoid using direct quotes. They should be used very sparingly for
emphasis only. There is very little value added in a string of quotes. If you
must use direct quotes, you must use quotation marks and provide additional
details of the page on which the quote appears.
 Try to identify relevant graphs, data or other tools of analysis to supplement
your answer. When using such diagrams, remember to use your own
numbering system. The first diagram you use will be Figure 1 – even if it is
Figure 7 in your source material!
Such a diagram should be fully labelled, titled and the source provided. This
source, along with all other references used should be included in the
bibliography at the end of the essay.
Step Three = Writing up
 Having established your essay plan, collected sufficient data and ideas with
references to support them, you can now write the essay.
 When you have finished writing the essay, read through it once again and ask
yourself:
 Does it have an introduction, which sets out the terms of reference?
 Does it address all the relevant issues?
 Are the ideas attributed to the original author using Harvard Referencing?
 Does the essay flow seamlessly from one paragraph to the next?
 Are there diagrams and/or data or other forms of analysis to support my
findings?
 Is there a conclusion, which briefly summarises your main findings?
 Have I cross- referenced all items in a bibliography, presented in alphabetical
order by author surname?
 Are full author/publisher details provided in the bibliography?
Step Four = Self-assessment
 Below is a list of the Assessment criteria. These will be applied to this essay.
 A traffic light system is used. Red suggests danger – work is needed to reach
the appropriate standard. Amber represents an acceptable level of
performance. Green represents a good level of performance.
 Rows in the first column show the assessment criteria and its weighting for
this assessment. Thus Presentation/Structure/Referencing (25%) indicates
that evidence of a well organised and presented piece of work is supported by
correct refrencing is one of the criteria and it contributes to 25% of your total
mark for this essay.
 Columns 2 to 4 are used to describe the corresponding Red, Amber and
Green outcomes. Thus column 2 suggests that Red is awarded for “wrongly
formatted /or badly structured work with insufficient levels of reference”.
Column 3 suggests that Amber is awarded for “work with a reasonable
structure, in the correct format which is generally well referenced, with some
exceptions”. Column 4 shows that Green represents a “well- structured and
organised piece of work supported fully by strong referencing.
 A similar type of interpretation applies to the other three categories:
Research/Evidence/Interpretation; Knowledge and Understanding; and
Argument/Evaluation and Application.
You should refer to the marking criteria at all stages:

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