Assignment Guidance
Essay
“The submission of a written essay that discusses a business issue using a wide variety of research materials (1,500 words)”.
Firstly, choose one topic from the list below – your whole essay task will be about this issue:
Adapting to new technology including Ecommerce and Social Media platforms
Challenges of Hospitality, Leisure and Travel industry during Covid-19 pandemic
Begin your research by reading the related piece of research from the module – your lecturer will have indicated which research is relevant to each of the topics. YOU MUST CITE FROM THIS PIECE OF RESEARCH WITHIN YOUR ESSAY.
The remaining research that you carry out needs to provide information for all of the following areas of the essay:
What the issues is – including a definition of the issue from a reliable source
How the issue is affecting different companies – you need to give positive and negative examples.
The structure of the essay is as follows;
Introduction (250 words) – what the issue is.
Main body paragraph 1 (500 words) positive effects on companies.
Main body paragraph 2 (500 words) negative effects on companies.
Conclusion (250 words) – summarises what essay has covered and future implications.
REMEMBER – EVERY STATEMENT/PIECE OF INFORMATION YOU WANT TO INCLUDE IN YOUR ASSIGNMENT MUST COME FROM YOUR RESEARCH AND BE REFERENCED CORRECTLY.
Conclusion
This assignment is an essay of 1500 word ( /- 10%). The essay must be in a Microsoft Word document which will be submitted into Turnitin
Please ensure if you do not have the relevant IT skills to be able to create this assignment as one Word document, that you book in with the Academic Support team in advance of the Summative deadline to get the IT help you need.
To ensure that your work has enough research you need to cite from the two core textbooks and the selected piece of research for your essay topic and in-class presentation. You should aim to find more pieces of research that come from a range of books, websites journals etc.