This section provides an opportunity for students to demonstrate their skills of classification and comparison as well as their ability to apply theoretical concepts and frameworks, drawn from the literature, to data derived their own investigation in their own organisation. Recommendations, where appropriate, should be feasible. The paper should be well organised and have a clear structure including a contents page. Quotations, tables, etc should be clear and relevant. The presentation of references should follow the Harvard system and the list should be complete.
Credit is given for good use of language.
A word count of substantive text, excluding end references and appendices, should be given. Assignments which significantly exceed or fail to reach the expected word count will be penalised in the marks for this section. This allocation of marks allows the marker to consider the overall coherence of the paper and its relationship to educational management and the module studied. In particular, this mark reflects the marker's professional opinion about the quality of the paper. Credit is given for analytical as opposed to descriptive or narrative writing.