Assignment workshop: research, planning and referencing

This week’s topics

Assignment workshop: research, planning and referencing

1. Unpacking the assignment brief and criteria
2. Finding and evaluating sources
3. Planning and referencing

What you will be able to do

• 1.1 Critically analyse the nature, characteristics and challenges of establishing different kinds of enterprise.
• 1.2 Critically assess own entrepreneurial skills and attributes.
• 1.3 Evaluate what makes a successful commercial or social entrepreneur.
• 2.1 Evaluate methods for encouraging creativity and innovation in organisations.
• 2.2 Evaluate potential creative and innovative management ideas.
• 2.3 Critically explore how to lead others to positively embrace innovation and change.
• 3.1 Analyse business ideas.
• 3.2 Evaluate production, and marketing feasibility of new business ideas.
• 3.3 Produce business planning forecasts using financial techniques.
• 4.1 Develop a business plan for a new business.
• 4.2 Develop a control and monitoring mechanism for the business plan.

Activity

Plan the unit assignment against every criterion; source and reference the evidence.

Study materials

Further resources

• Appropriate criteria: key to effective rubrics · Reading · Reading, article · for registered students
• Evaluating Information: Applying the CRAAP Test · PDF · Other, report · for registered students
• Harvard Referencing quick guide 2025 (York St John University) · PDF · Other, report · for registered students