Research Materials:
– You MUST use the two (2) prescribed Readings:
• Dickson-Swift, James, Kippen and Liamputtong (2007)
• Morgan and Smircich (1980)
– At least four (4) of the offered (9) Readings as provided (I will upload it later on)
– DON’T use any other information from another reading! Just use the Readings that has been provided
Essay guidance:
For many of you, this may be one of the few research essays you will have been asked to produce at post-graduate level. Therefore, I have written the following to give you a clearer indication of what you need to do, at this level, to produce good academic writing.
An essay at post-graduate level is:
• an argument
– specifically it is your argument in relation to the question that you have been set. This means that it is not just a summary of someone else’s views or writing, but is instead a piece of academic work in which you present your answer to the question asked, that draws on a range of other people’s published academic material to support and develop your answer.
• this argument must have a clear, logical structure;
– this means explicit sections, that each deal with a particular aspect of your core argument and an Introduction that tells the reader what you will argue and how you will structure your argument.
• that has evidence of substantial reading of relevant academic material;
• that supports its main points through references to published academic material;
• that has a Conclusion which summarises again your argument and how you
developed this in the main sections of your essay; and
• that has an alphabetically ordered sources in the reference list.
