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26100: Integrating Business Perspectives

26100: Integrating Business Perspectives. ESSAY WRITING WORKSHOP. JODIE SAKAGUCHI Academic Language & Literacy. Assignment question Marking criteria Sample essays Where to get help Your questions. TUTOR FEEDBACK ON THIS ASSIGNMENT. S erious lack of critical analysis .

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26100: Integrating Business Perspectives

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  1. 26100: Integrating Business Perspectives ESSAY WRITING WORKSHOP JODIE SAKAGUCHI Academic Language & Literacy

  2. Assignment question Marking criteria Sample essays Where to get help Your questions

  3. TUTOR FEEDBACK ON THIS ASSIGNMENT

  4. Serious lack of critical analysis. Much too descriptive in 95% of cases, despite spending at least an hour in class walking through the ins and outs of critical analysis. Very few students managed to get referencing even close to correct.

  5. No use of statistics or facts Claims without any proof Little use of academic literature Poor English

  6. THE ASSIGNMENT QUESTION

  7. Discuss how the issues associated with broken food systems might be understood as a wicked problem • In your own words • Justify statements • Use examples • Refer to 5+ sources • Use Harvard UTS for referencing • In 500 words (not including references) • Edit for accurate language

  8. Discuss how the issues associated with broken food systems might be understood as a wicked problem

  9. What are food systems? How are they broken? What is a wicked problem? DISCUSS, EXPLAIN, DESCRIBE

  10. MARKING CRITERIA

  11. The essay question: Explain how consumption can be interpreted as a wicked problem. Demonstrate how consumption poses an issue and/or opportunity for business. How well does this author identify the features of a wicked problem and relate the wicked problem to business? How would you rate the text structure and support in this excerpt? Excerpt 1

  12. CONSUMPTION IS A WICKED PROBLEM. Consumption has features of wicked problem. • Every person must consume. • Consumption leads to other problems, such as pollution and global warming. • Global consumption is a unique problem. • Finding a solution to consumption will never end. • As consumption occurs in every country, finding solutions is a political issue. Issues and opportunities for business: • Consumption creates many problems and opportunities for business. • Many industries are affected by power costs. • teaching businesses how to reduce waste is an area of oportunity • alternative energy is a large global industry • explaining to businesses how to comply with legislation

  13. Critical analytical approach

  14. “CRITICAL” “ANALYTICAL” to analyse = to examine to consider to investigate to think about …in detail to criticise General Meaning = find fault Academic Meaning objectively consider +/- evaluate make a judgement come to a conclusion

  15. Doing a critical analysis means not just summarising what you have read So….

  16. The essay question: Explain how consumption can be interpreted as a wicked problem. Demonstrate how consumption poses an issue and/or opportunity for business. How would you rate the critical analysis in this excerpt? Excerpt 1

  17. CONSUMPTION IS A WICKED PROBLEM. Consumption has features of wicked problem. • Every person must consume. • Consumption leads to other problems, such as pollution and global warming. • Global consumption is a unique problem. • Finding a solution to consumption will never end. • As consumption occurs in every country, finding solutions is a political issue. Issues and opportunities for business: • Consumption creates many problems and opportunities for business. • Many industries are affected by power costs. • teaching businesses how to reduce waste is an area of oportunity • alternative energy is a large global industry • explaining to businesses how to comply with legislation

  18. Identify your sources 1. In the body of your essay 2. In your reference list The title for your reference list should be: Reference listor References NOT Reference, Referencing, References list Harvard UTS style Ordered alphabetically according to the family name of the first author See the UTS Library website and interactive guide for details “In-text citations” • indirect quotes – paraphraseor summarise in your own words According to Smith (2009), consumption displays all of the features of a wicked problem. OR Consumption displays all of the features of a wicked problem (Smith 2009). (No comma! Fullstop comes after the brackets.) • direct quotes (use sparingly!) Smith (2009, p. 5) concludes that ‘consumption is a problem which is unsolvable’. YOU NEED BOTH 1 & 2 SHOULD MATCH

  19. Digital revolution is a wicked problem. The concept of wicked problems was defined by Rittel as complex and ill-defined problems (Rittel 1973). Wicked problems possess completely opposite features compared to tame problems, including being hard to define, ambiguous, unique, being caused by a variety of reasons and having no stopping point (Ritchey 2011). Therefore, wicked problems can not be solved by traditional ways and there are no correct or wrong solutions. Instead, there may be many possible approaches, even including some from a totally unrelated field (University of Technology Sydney 2012). In-text references

  20. Digital revolution is a wicked problem. The concept of wicked problems was defined by Rittelas complex and ill-defined problems (Rittel 1973). Wicked problems possess completely opposite features compared to tame problems, including being hard to define, ambiguous, unique, being caused by a variety of reasons and having no stopping point (Ritchey 2011). Therefore, wicked problems can not be solved by traditional ways and there are no correct or wrong solutions. Instead, there may be many possible approaches, even including some from a totally unrelated field (University of Technology Sydney 2012). In-text references

  21. In-text references: (Rittel 1973) (Ritchey 2011) (University of Technology Sydney 2012) Reference list: Ritchey, T. 2011, Wicked Problems – Social Messes, Springer, Berlin. Rittel, H. W. J. & Webber, M. M. 1973, ‘Dilemmas in a General Theory of Planning’, Policy Science, vol. 4, pp.155-169. University of Technology Sydney 2012, Integrating Business Perspectives, 2nd edition, McGraw Hill, North Ryde, Australia.

  22. WHERE TO GET HELP

  23. Before you start...

  24. For help with finding sources… • Follow the research signposts in the Workshops 2013 folder in UTSOnline • Drop in to the Research Help Desk at UTSLibrary, or ask a librarian through the library website.

  25. For help with your writing… • Join UPASSwrite for IBP (registration ends today. Contact Joseph.Yeo@uts.edu.au) • Attend a UTS: HELPS weekly workshop • Drop in to UTS: HELPS for a one-on-one consultation • UTS: HELPS website

  26. GOOD LUCK!

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