School of Social and Environmental Sciences Economic Studies

MSC INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS PROJECT REPORT

A Guide

Project topic: Corporate recruitment and selection policies Infosys Australia Students will choose a company that was creating a 'greenfield' enterprise, analyse its recruitment and selection policies and determine whether those policies were successful in obtaining for the company the human resources that it needed to achieve its organisation objectives.

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1.OVERVIEW...........................................................................................................................................................1 1.1 Submission Deadlines...............................................................................................................................1 1.2 The Objective of the Project.....................................................................................................................1 THE PROJECT PROPOSAL...........................................................................................................................................2 2.1 Project Topics........................................................................................................................................2 2.2 Writing the Project Proposal...................................................................................................................3 WRITING THE PROJECT REPORT IN GENERAL............................................................................................................3 4. GENERAL WRITING SKILLS.....................................................................................................................................5 4.1 The Literature Search...............................................................................................................................5 4.2 The Literature Survey in your Project Report..........................................................................................6 4.3 Referencing...............................................................................................................................................7 4.4 The Bibliography......................................................................................................................................8 4.5 Sources for Data.....................................................................................................................................11 4.6 Plagiarism and Academic Dishonesty....................................................................................................12 4.7 General Advice Concerning Writing a Project Report..........................................................................13 4.7.1 Organising your Notes and Databases...............................................................................................13 4.7.2 Planning the Structure of the Project..................................................................................................13 5. SUBMISSION CHECK LIST....................................................................................................................................15

1. OVERVIEW There are two stages in the writing of the project report that are dealt with in this guide. The first is writing the project proposal and the second is the writing of the project report itself. The handout is not a complete guide on how to write the report. Instead, the handout is to encourage you to think about how to write the report, what the objectives are, and how you should go about meeting those objectives. Further guidance and discussion on how to write a report can be found in Berry (1996), Moore (1983), and Smith (1994).1 The guide also provides practical advice on how to approach writing the project report. 1.1 (i) Submission Deadlines The project proposal should be no more than 500 words and be submitted to the Economics Office by 12 noon on Tuesday, 24 May 2011. The proposal will be marked and will contribute 10 percent to the final mark of this module. The text of the project report (i.e. excluding the data appendix, bibliography and abstract) has a limit of 4000 words. The project report must be submitted to the Economics Office by 12 noon on Monday, 1 August 2011. The project report will contribute 90 percent towards the final mark of the module. The Objective of the Project

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An important objective of the project is for the student to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of a wide range of economic and analytical skills that apply to the study of international business. Knowledge and understanding can be demonstrated by clearly setting out the problem or area of interest, a careful analysis of the problem at both a theoretical and empirical level (including the collection, manipulation and interpretation of data), the drawing of conclusions from the analysis and then use those conclusions to make predictions and/or formulate policy advice. The objective for the student therefore is to use the project as a vehicle to convince the reader of the great depth of knowledge they possess that is relevant to their particular topic that they are studying. Consequently, writing a project is an exercise in; (a) setting out a problem;
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Berry, R. (1996). The Research Project: how to write it, 5th edition, London: Routledge. Moore, N. (1983). How to do Research, London: Library Association. Smith, P. (1994). How to Write an Assignment: improving your presentation skills, Plymouth: How To Books.

(b) explaining why the problem is important or of interest; (c) analysing the problem in the context of international business; (d) looking at the evidence to see if the data conforms with the analysis; and (e) drawing some conclusions (or predictions) from the analysis and the data. This implies that your project should put forward an argument, a point of view that is set out in a logical fashion, easy to follow by the reader and argued with reference to relevant theories and the data (or other evidence).2 Think of the project as a way to reveal what you have learnt during your study of International Business by applying that knowledge to a problem or puzzle. The project is not a list of facts, figures and data. For example, if the title of your project is Has deregulation of the finance sector failed to improve economic welfare in the UK? then simply listing the events associated with deregulation of the finance sector does not constitute an argument or an answer to the problem posed in the title. The events may be important when considered in the context of the theory and the data but a simple list of the events does not analyse the question set out in the title. At the risk of overstating this point, your project should meet the dinner party test. This test is as follows. Consider yourself at a dinner party and the partner of your best friend turns to you and says, As a business analyst, do you believe deregulation of the finance sector improved economic welfare in the UK? Your response, after you suppress the initial thought of what a strange question at a dinner party, would not be to list the events associated with deregulation of the finance sector. Instead, you would make a coherent argument setting out your position that could be supported by referring to events associated with the process of deregulation. A subsidiary objective for the student is to also demonstrate that they can manage time effectively and complete a piece of work in time while meeting the formal regulations covering the standards of the project. THE PROJECT PROPOSAL 2.1 Project Topics

A list of generic topics will be issued in March. The topics are divided into four sets: General, Marketing, Finance and Human Resource Management. Students on the International Business and Marketing pathway can select topics from the Marketing set only. Students on the International Business and Finance pathway can select topics from the Finance set only. Students on the International Business, Marketing and Human Resource Management pathway can select topics from the Marketing and Human Resource
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Theories is used in a broad sense to encompass theories relevant to all the courses that you undertook in your MSc International Business degree.

Management sets only. Students on the International Business pathway are strongly encouraged to select topics from the General category, but can select topics from the other three sets. Students should sign up for a topic by completing the Topic Choice Form. Subsequently each student will be assigned an economics staff member as their supervisor. Students should meet with the supervisor as soon as possible in order to agree a specific title for their project. 2.2 Writing the Project Proposal

The project proposal should be no more than 500 words and contain the following: a clear statement of the title with the name of the candidate; an outline of the topic to be dealt with in the project. The outline should identify: (a) the question, problem or puzzle that is to be considered in the project; (b) why the topic is important; (c) how you are going to proceed to analyse the topic the theories that are relevant (based on the modules that you attended) and the data and the data analysis to be used; and (d) the expected conclusions of the project.

WRITING THE PROJECT REPORT IN GENERAL Experience indicates that the most successful projects are within the stringent word limit of 4,000 words (excluding the bibliography and appendices). This is about the size of a concise article in an academic or business journal. Successfully writing within a strict word limit requires the topic to be identified clearly and concisely. Extended factual detail will come across as weighty padding rather than as central material. The following must be included: (i) An Executive Summary of no more than 150 words in bullet point form explaining the problem considered, the methodology and conclusion of the project. If you wish to make Acknowledgements, make these on a separate page. 3

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A Table of Contents that lists the sections and subsections of the project. The Introduction to the project should clearly identify the central topic to be discussed, assert why and in what context the topic is important, indicate the structure of the essay and, in anticipation, proclaim the conclusions that you make. Initially only a rough introduction can be written as it depends heavily on what you actually argue and find by the end of the project. Given that you will not know all your findings until later, you will have to write the final version of the introduction last. This may initially seem a little peculiar but as you proceed you will see why this is correct.

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Be sure that the Subject Matter of your project focuses on a clear question relevant to a particular module of the International Business degree. This will allow you to carefully analyse the question using the relevant theories, empirical analysis and/or a case study. After the Introduction, a Literature Survey that establishes the context of your topic in terms of the key debates in the literature. This provides a short and concise account of the context of the problems you are dealing with in relation to how other authors have previously dealt with them. It is necessary to set out as clearly as you can the existing views of other scholars before you begin to make your own arguments.

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The Analytical Theory section should establish your critical perspective (i.e. your argument) on the topic. It should include both your account of the material that you are dealing with and the argument that you wish to put forward. Your argument should be clear: the reader should easily see where it sits in the general debate and what the testable conclusions of your argument are. Furthermore, the argument that you make should be developed within a clear theoretical framework relevant to the area with which your project deals. For example, if you wish to make the (legitimate) point that banks, in general, take advantage of their customers, then do not simply express this view as an opinion that banks are rogues and charlatans. Instead, you might refer to the problems associated with uncertainty, transaction costs and switching costs and then argue that due to these problems banks are endowed with a degree of monopoly power and that this means that the marginal cost of funds is less than the rate of interest charged by banks and, therefore, welfare is reduced. The later economic argument is the same as the opinion expressed above but it reveals to the reader that you understand the underlying economics of the banking system in particular and one source of monopoly power in general. Remember that when writing this section you are trying to meet the important objective set out in section 1.2 above of demonstrating competence in a wide range of business and analytical skills. 4

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The Data and Empirical Analysis section should consider the data in terms of the analytical theory section. In particular you should see if the data supports or contradicts your theoretical conclusions. If the data does not support your conclusions then provide explanations as to why the data does not conform with what you expect. The Policy Implications section considers your theoretical and empirical findings in terms of the original explanation of why the topic is important. The Conclusion should summarise the main points of your argument referring back to the sections of the project. The conclusion should refer to the original reason given as to why the topic is important and any policy conclusions that may follow from the work. Appendices can be used for expanding issues that are important but not central to your argument. A data appendix listing the sources of all data must be included and be of sufficient detail that the reader could obtain the same data from the information in the data appendix alone. Any original data should be included in the data appendix. References, Footnotes and Bibliographies. The Project should use a consistent style for the references, footnotes and the bibliography. A suitable style is that used by the Economic Journal (which you can find in the library). The bibliography at the end of the project should include only the references in the body of the project (and not all the articles and books that you have read on the subject). (xiii) The appropriate titles should be given to any Diagrams and Illustrations on the page that they appear.

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4. 4.1

GENERAL WRITING SKILLS The Literature Search

Having set out the topic in the Project Proposal, the literature search aims to clarify what the others already think about this topic. This is an exciting stage of the process as your own thoughts about the topic will begin to become clear including how you might make your argument and the likely conclusions. Furthermore, you will be able to see the extent that your argument is original in either a broad sense of being entirely new or in a more narrow sense in that you are the first to apply the economic arguments to your topic. A good starting point is to make use of a literature search engine to search for the recent papers published on a particular topic. The best economics and business based programme is available through the library web site. Go to: http://www.dundee.ac.uk/library/eresources/databases.htm 5

and you will see:

EconLit, which is now part of the EBSCO databases, is compiled by the American Economic Association. Web of Knoledge provides access to the Social Science Citation Index. You can also try International Bibliography of the Social Sciences, which is also under the umbrella of EBSCO databases. These databases allow you full-text access to some but not all of the indexed publications. Where full-text access is not provided, you can note down the reference and then search the library catalogue to see if the library holds it either in hard copy or in electronic format. 4.2 The Literature Survey in your Project Report

The literature survey in your report should contain. (a) A clear and concise account of the different streams of thought about the topic. The different streams may be based on different philosophical approaches, different methodological approaches (i.e. empirical versus theoretical, or even econometric versus survey based analysis), or different outcomes (i.e. one group argues one outcome and the other group of authors argue the opposite). 6

Note: Identifying the streams of thought is to simplify the literature search for you and the reader. Consider the case where you read 30 articles (journal articles and books) that are particularly relevant for your topic. If your literature survey is a list of what each article says then this is not helpful to you or the reader because it is impossible to comprehend what each says simultaneously. However, if you separate the 30 articles into a maximum of 4 (preferably less than 4) streams of thought (i.e. into 4 groups of similar views) then both you and the reader can comprehend what the profession understands about the topic, what the different views are based on, and whether or not we agree with each of the different groups of views. (b) A short critique of the literature that emphasises which views are particularly relevant to your topic. In addition, how the project will make use of the views highlighted in the literature survey. Referencing All published work by other authors that you have relied upon must be fully and properly referenced in your project report. When you reference a piece of work in the text you put the authors name (or names) plus the year of publication. For example, you may refer to an argument presented by someone called Jones in a paper published in the year 2000. In this case you might say as Jones (2000) argues . . . in the text and then you would provide the full reference in terms of the title and journal name in the bibliography at the end of the project report. An example of multiple authors might be, Banerjee, Mizen and Russell (2002) demonstrates . . .. Though the act of documentation (i.e. that of referencing, the use of footnotes and the compiling of a bibliography) seem pedantic, it is very important. Footnotes and full bibliographies enable the reader to check your sources and to see how you have established your case. Any good project is a contribution to knowledge and must therefore be open to all. The scrupulous use of footnotes and bibliographies enables someone to build on your research as you have built on the work of others. Documentation is therefore not a mere matter of academic form but an issue that relates to the accessibility of knowledge. Note that you should only reference original work. Therefore, you do not reference text books, what you hear in lectures or the notes of your lecturers as these are not original pieces of work. The correct use of documentation adds subtly to your projects and is very important. (a) All direct quotations must be cited in a footnote or in the body of the text. Direct quotations are indicated by being in quotation marks (i.e. . . . ) and you indicate exactly where the quotation is taken from by referencing the article or book and the page number where the reader can find the quotation. 7

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Footnotes can be used to qualify or briefly expand a point made in the text without interrupting the flow of your general argument. Footnotes can also be used to make a critical or insightful remark about an argument that you do not have the space to develop in your text. Footnotes can be used for cross-referencing material within your essay.

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The Bibliography You must use a standard bibliographic style. We suggest that you follow bibliographic style used by the Economic Journal. A copy of the bibliography of a recent paper published in the Economic Journal is reported below.

Bibliography

Note from the bibliography above that: (i) The bibliography should be set out in alphabetical order of the last name of the first author. If the first author has published with more than one co-author then arrange the first authors articles in terms of the alphabetical order of the second author. For example see Canova and Harris (1993) and Canova and Jane (1998) above. If the same author, or authors, has published more than one paper then list them in chronological order. For example Backus, Kehoe, and Kydland (1992) is then followed by Backus, Kehoe, and Kydland (1994). When there are more than one author, they are listed in the order found on the article or book with a comma after each name and that the last name has and before it. For an example see Backus, Kehoe, and Kydland (1992). It is not necessary to put the full first names of each author. Instead you can just put the initial of the first name with a full stop after it. For example, instead of reporting Backus, Kehoe and Kydland (1992) as in the bibliography above you could report it as: Backus, D.K., Kehoe, P.J. and Kydland, F.E. (1992). International real business cycles. Journal of Political Economy, vol. 100, pp. 745-75. (ii) Baldwin (1990) is a journal article. The journal name is in italics and you put the title of the paper in single quotation marks (i.e. ). You also include the volume of the journal, the number of the journal (in some cases this may be the quarter, month, publication number or season of the year), and the page numbers of the article. Dornbush (1980) is a book. The name of the book is in italics and you report where the book is published (in this case New York) and the name of the publishing company (in this case Basic Books). Baxter (1995) is an article published as a chapter in a book. The title of the chapter is in single quotation marks and the name of the book is in italics. Also included are the editors of the book, the publishing company and where the book is published. Zimmermann (1995) is a working (or discussion) paper which is work in progress of the author and has not been formally published yet in a book or journal. In this case the title of the working paper is in single quotation marks and you report the name of the working paper series, any number attributed to the working paper (37 in this case), and the institution that has produced the series. Betts and Devereux (1997) is a paper that has not been published in a journal, book, working paper or discussion paper and is very preliminary work in progress. It has been distributed for purpose of discussion only. In this case the title is in quotation 10

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marks, it is called a manuscript (or mimeo) and then the institution that the author is associated with (in this case the University of British Columbia) is reported. There are numerous types of work that you might reference and you can find examples of how to report these in your bibliography in any recent copy of the Economic Journal which you can find in the library. If you download an article from the web that has not been published formally somewhere then you will not be able to provide a standard reference as in the bibliography above. Instead your bibliographic reference should try to include the name of the author, the title of the document, the date the document was written, the institution responsible for the publication of the document, the date of download, and the web address. Sometimes all this information is not available but you should do your best to identify the document the best you can. If there is little to identify the document then it is more than likely that the document is not suitable to be referenced in your project report. 4.5 Sources for Data

There are a large number of data sources where you can download data for nothing from the web. A good place to start is web sites that provide lists of data resources for economists and business. Four such lists are provided below. (i) Economics Networks Economics Datasets available free on the Web: http://www.economicsnetwork.ac.uk/links/data_free.htm The American Economics Associations Resources for the Economics on the Web: http://rfe.org/showCat.php?cat_id=2

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(iii) Mansfield Universitys gateway to a range of resources: http://lib.mansfield.edu/econ.cfm (iv) Biz/Ed guide for free economics and business data on the web: http://www.bized.co.uk/dataserv/freedata.htm When you are downloading data make sure that you keep a record of what the data is (i.e. the exact name of the data and any identifying code or number), where you downloaded the data from (i.e. the web address and the name of the institution), what the original source of the data is (i.e. the institutions that you downloaded the data from may not be the original source), and when you downloaded the data. You must also keep a record of any transformations that you perform on the data. These details must be included in your data appendix so the sources and the data are fully documented.

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4.6

Plagiarism and Academic Dishonesty

It is very disappointing when students, knowingly or unknowingly, plagiarise work from other sources and are penalised heavily for it. These students find it necessary to quote exactly (or altering only a few words) from textbooks, course handouts, and articles. Use these and other sources to analyse the topic that you have chosen but put these sources away and write the project in your own words so as to demonstrate understanding. Quotations (or very nearly direct quotations) that are not referenced and not in quotation marks are plagiarism. The University has a very strict policy on plagiarism and a copy of the Code of Practice on Plagiarism and Academic Dishonesty is displayed on the notice board in the entry hall of the Economics Building. If you are unclear about what constitutes plagiarism after reading the Code then seek guidance from your supervisor. The Code states that plagiarism is: The unacknowledged use of anothers work as if it were ones own. Examples of plagiarism given in the Code include: (i) (ii) (iii) (iv) inclusion of more than a single phrase from another work without the use of quotation marks and acknowledgement of source; summarising anothers work by changing a few words or altering the order of presentation without acknowledgement; copying another persons work; and use of another persons ideas without acknowledgement or the presentation of work as if it were ones own which is substantially of another.

This issue is taken very seriously by the University and may lead in serious cases to degree qualifications being withheld or termination of studies. It is important for you to understand what constitutes academic dishonesty in general and plagiarism in particular. As an aside, if you quote large passages directly from the textbook or other sources and then acknowledge the quotation in the text using quotation marks and reference, this will avoid a charge of plagiarism but it will not demonstrate to the marker that you understand the subject area nor answer the question. Consequently, you will achieve very low marks (or zero marks if the whole project report is a series of quotations). The Advance@Dundee web site on transferable skills has a document that clearly deals with what constitutes plagiarism and how to avoid inadvertently plagiarising another persons work. You can access this site at: www.dundee.ac.uk/advancedundee/D/d018p.htm 12

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General Advice Concerning Writing a Project Report

Writing a project report can seem a little daunting but there are a number of techniques that can help with the writing process. 4.7.1 Organising your Notes and Databases

Before you start reading the literature, think carefully about how you are going to keep track of your findings and what you have read. Keep your notes in good order and implement some system that allows you to collate and order your findings prior to writing the project. One useful system is to keep notes on the right hand side of a page leaving the left side blank. This means that (a) you can add titles for each section on the left; (b) add extra comments where necessary and (c) establish an index for your notes more rapidly. When taking notes from books, be sure to note the author, title, edition, year of publication and page number. This saves energy and time as well as reducing the frustration that would come later when you have to hunt down half-remembered references for the bibliography. 4.7.2 Planning the Structure of the Project

There are no hard and fast rules governing writing up a project. Writing is a very personal activity and depends upon individual preferences. Some prefer rigid plans while others find it easier to write a loose draft and then re-shape it into a structured form later. The following comments are not intended to provide a formula for writing but simply provide some general comments. A plan of sorts is always a good idea prior to writing the main body of your project. It must be kept in mind that form and content are not inseparable. Whatever your argument, how you present it is as important as what you have to say. Arguments must follow on from one another and any analysis of facts; data or views must rest on a clear explanation of the problems or themes you wish to examine. Making a plan of your project is akin to constructing a plan of a campaign or a legal case. That is, how you are going to set about convincing the reader that what you have to say, or what you have discovered, merits attention. A project that lacks a clear scheme of approach will be much weaker than one that immediately sets out its aims, intentions and a clear exposition of its methods. By doing so, the reader will have confidence in the writers ability and that they have something to say. Planning is never easy because at the outset of a project nobody can be completely clear about what they want to say, let alone the implications of what they wish to argue. However, in the research stage of your project, jot down ideas of how you are going to present your argument. Your ideas may change as your research expands but always bear in mind the structure within which you are working. If you are completely stumped as to how to present your case, the following supplies a conventional outline for planning a project report. 13

Initial Stages Draw together from your notebooks all the important ideas that might be relevant to your question or topic and jot them all down no matter the order. You will invariably discover that one idea prompts another and that you implicitly know much more than you explicitly believe. Having explored your rough ideas, use the following to order them more formally. Writing Up It is most important that you write the project as you proceed with the research. For example, having finished the literature search, write the chapter that considers the views of the profession on your topic. After completing the empirical work write the chapter on the empirical analysis. Do not leave the writing up until the last moment as this leads to disaster. Everybody approaches the task of writing differently. Some require absolute isolation for prolonged periods of time; others prefer to work in short but intensive bouts while still others choose the anonymity of public places, cafes or museums. There is no, and never will be, an ideal time or place to work, nor is there a continuous contemplative or creative life-style. There are simply contemplative or creative moments and through trial and error you have to find the times and places (never rely on just one) where you feel best able to relax and think effectively. The problems which arise while writing must be treated differently according to personality. When you get stuck you may prefer to tussle with the problem. Like a terrier, walk around with a cup of tea teasing the problem out of yourself or simply laying the piece aside for a day or two. You may find that having a break from your project will bring a new focus to your argument. Quite often, explaining the problem and the alternative solutions to a (often disinterested) third person who is not closely associated with the topic will help you discover the way to proceed. Alternatively, you can talk the issues over with your supervisor. Whatever the case, you must learn to know how to get the best out of yourself. Experiment and find out what is the most appropriate way of working for you. If you are worried that what you are saying is not clear and logical then give your manuscript to somebody else to read. Having someone else read and comment on your work often highlights the areas that are less clear and in the process of explaining to that person what you really mean you find a better way to make your point. Revising your drafts Revising the first draft of your project report is very important. Good work can be severely weakened by being over wordy or unnecessarily colourful (in particular avoid emotive language and clichs). Uncorrected mistakes and simple errors can weaken the credibility of the project. Remember that often the real work of a piece of writing starts with the completion of the first draft. If you can leave the draft for a day or two then do so. Detachment can bring clearer insight. When you start revising your draft, there are a number of points you should scrupulously watch out for. 14

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Relevance

It is a common fault amongst writers who are unsure as to what is relevant, to put into their work anything that might be relevant (i.e. the blunderbuss or mud on the barn door approach). The thinking here is that if I am not sure what to write, I will include everything because in the mass of detail there is a good chance that something must be relevant. However, this is an unproductive approach as it leads to unstructured and difficult reading. When reading through your project, watch for the main point of each paragraph. Having established what the main point is, be ruthless in taking out what is not necessary. If a sentence, phrase or word is not doing anything to support your point, strike it out. Half a dozen well written, concise and directly relevant paragraphs are worth a hundred loose and wafflely ones. Your aim should be to make each sentence as succinct, relevant and clear as possible without a distortion of meaning. (b) Sub-Sections

If you are engaged in a complicated passage of analysis, it is sometimes helpful to both the writer and the reader to introduce sub-sections even if they are only a paragraph long. It serves to isolate and clarify key points and to allow the reader to follow more easily each stage in your argument as it unfolds. It does not matter how simple you appear to make things. In theoretical matters, simplicity, clarity of thought and presentation are valuable. (c) The Flow of your Argument

Watch closely for the flow and consistency of your argument. Whether you are writing the introduction or are engaged in analysis, each sentence should follow on from the last and anticipate the next. Cut out anything that deviates from the main line of thought for it will only read badly, or worse still, seem to be padding. Sudden departures from the main line of argument will annoy your reader and weaken their concentration. Keep to the point. If you are unsure as to whether a passage or section reads clearly get a second opinion by giving it to somebody else to read.

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SUBMISSION CHECK LIST

When you are satisfied with the report on your project, print out two copies and read, sign and attach to the front of each copy the following Project Report Submission Form. The report should contain in the following order. (a) (b) Signed Project Report Submission Form. Front page that includes the title of your project report, your full name, the date of submission, and the degree that the report is submitted for. 15

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If you want to acknowledge the kind support and encouragement of anyone (friends or family) then include a separate page with the acknowledgments on it. A page with the 150 word executive summary. A page with the Table of Contents on it. The text of your report. Appendices. If you have used data then you must include a data appendix that clearly sets out the sources of the data and any transformations that you may have performed on the data. If you wish to include further details and explanations of the work contained in the text of the report (which will be outside the word limit) then you can include the work in an appendix.

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Bibliography in the approved style.

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PROJECT REPORT SUBMISSION FORM

Please complete all fields.

Matriculation No: ............................................................................ Name: ................................................................................................ Module: EC50008 MSc International Business Project Report Title of Project Report: ...................................................................... ...................................................................... Supervisor: ..

I have read and understood (i) the discussion on plagiarism contained in this document, and (ii) the Universitys rules on academic dishonesty and plagiarism (www.somis.dundee.ac.uk/academic/plagiarism.htm) and I am aware of the consequences which may follow if I breach those rules. I declare that the attached report is my own work. Any material copied verbatim is contained within quotation marks and the sources cited. I understand what plagiarism means.

Signature: Date:

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