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Preparing for MBA
Being a Student Again
MBA Assignments
Dos and Don'ts
Thesis & Dissertations
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Some dos and don'ts about assignments :
Do
- Select a topic or question that you are
interested and relevant to your work. (if you are given the
choice) Your working knowledge will give you some added
advantage.
- Think of how you want to approach you topic.
A good essay should be very well organized and does not
"lose" the reader.
- Read your assignment ALOUD. Yes, ALOUD. If
you think it sounds terrible, you're probably right !
The flow is as as important as the point you're trying to
make, a miss is as good as a mile.
- Start early. Keep a sharp look out for
relevant materials in newspapers and magazines. Accumulate the
materials as you go on.
- Refer to management journals rather than the
text books. Text books will give you some basic grounding but
hardly sufficient if you doing a serious critique or
discussion paper. Remember, this is an MBA you're doing.
- Make it a point to read as much as you can on
the literature you intend to cover. This is to give you a
solid grounding. No harm knowing more.
- Browse articles before you go in depth. By
that I mean read the introduction and conclusion or summary if
the article has any. Assess the relevance, then read the first
and last sentence of every paragraph to get more details.
Above all DECIDE on whether the article is relevant or not.
- Have regular discussions with you course
mates/study groups. This is to ensure that you do not go off
tangent without realizing it. Working alone can be dangerous !
- Check the spelling !
- Surf the Internet for materials.
Don't
- Plagiarize !
- Select the questions that you think the
lecturer is lenient in his/her marking. You can never tell, so
don't bet on it ! Instead, do what you're interested in, you'd
stand a better chance to scoring an "A".
- Be too descriptive when you are asked to
critique. Spend more words on the discussion and critical
analysis of the topic.
- Repeat your point too many times.
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