WRITING A GOOD ESSAY FOR ETHICS AND GOVERNANCE – BUSM 3199

1) Refer to the RMIT Learning Lab sections on
a) ASSESSMENT TASKS > essays
b) WRITING SKILLS > academic writing > referencing – Harvard Style
2) WHAT is the ESSAY TOPIC ABOUT? – Develop your understanding of what the
essay is about and should be focused on. This will require research and reading.
3) RESEARCH – Your research should begin with academic databases EBSCO,
Science Direct, ABI, Emerald etc. Google Scholar is a useful part of your search
but should not be the only part. Web search engines are not that useful. You might
use Wikipedia to develop your understanding of a topic but you would not include
information from there in your assignments, nor would you reference it. Do not
reference Wikipedia. Instead you should find more authoritative sources to
reference and support your arguments.
4) READ – if you have not read you will not have much to say and much to discuss.
This will be very obvious when your work is assessed. You will not perform well in
the assignment if you have not READ ANYTHING. What you have read should be
used to support the argument you are making.
5) STRUCTURE – your essay should contain three main sections:
a) Introduction.
b) Main Body – that may or may not contain subheadings.
c) Conclusion
6) MAKE SURE THAT YOUR ASSIGNMENT IS ON TOPIC. Think about how the
material you are including relates to the question. Don’t just include information
because you have read it. MAKE SURE that it relates to the essay topic.
7) ENSURE that your assignment RELATES TO THE TOPIC – most students that fail
do so for the reason that there essays are not clearly focused on the topic. They
have not read enough about the topic from credible sources to even know that they
are not focused on the topic.

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