Order Description
M078 ? Corporate Social Responsibility
Re-sit Workshop
Briefing Notes
The following briefing notes are designed to help you enhance your work for resubmission.
You will need to improve on your resit submission following the requirements of the
resit assessment brief, grademark rubric and feedback given. The assessment brief
and rubric can still be viewed on your M078 Moodle site.
Module Learning Outcomes
As previously stated the module learning outcomes are those outcomes that you
should be able to achieve both during and on completing the module. As you will
remember from the lectures, there is a focus on criticality, analysis, synthesis and
evaluation. Review the learning outcomes in relation to the work that you need to
complete for your re-sit submission.
If you have any doubts about how to approach the work from a critical and evaluative
perspective, I suggest that you review the Critical Thinking text by Stella Cottrell.
Copies of which are in the library.
Read and Reflect upon the Feedback
It is important that you read the feedback carefully:
? Individual in-text points.
? Individual summary.
When reading the feedback:
It is important to be honest with yourself.
Reflect upon how you can take that feedback and feed it forward into a new piece of
work.
? Did you provide a clearly critical evaluation of the six core characteristics of
CSR in the context of your chosen organisation?
? Does your work demonstrate a sufficient grasp of the theories, models and
debates in the CSR literature?
? Is there a clear link between your research on your chosen organisation?s
current CSR strategy and the recommendations given?
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? Are the recommendations provided comprehensive and clearly relevant to the
organisation?
? Have you benchmarked your work against the M078 assessment brief and
rubric? Did you follow the brief in terms of the research requirements?
? Did your work lack clarity and an effective structure?
? Did you demonstrate a sufficient level of research?
? Were there appropriate in-text citations and an associated reference list?
? Do you have an executive summary, an introduction and a conclusion?
SO?..
? What do you need to develop?
? What do you need to re-structure?
? What do you need to correct?
? What do you need to enhance the level of criticality and evaluation?
? What additional information do you need to supply?
? Where will you obtain that information?
? How will you use that information effectively in answering the brief?
? How can you synthesis the information that you have gathered to provide the
necessary evidence to support findings?
? If you do not understand a concept ask yourself where can you find out more
about it? The core text would be a good starting point.
? What are your action steps to enhance the quality of your submission?
Check your understanding of the Rubric
Read the rubric and read it carefully. Then compare it to what you achieved and
what you did not. Did you, for instance, miss out a section altogether such as
?conclusion?? What was successful and what do you need to do to enhance your
work for the next submission?
Re-writing Your Work
As stated above, you need to re-write your submission to the required standard. This
does not mean ?simply adding one or two paragraphs?. You should ?re-build? your
assignment(s) using an integrated combination of existing and new material by
providing a comprehensive evaluation of your newly chosen organisation..
Evidence
When you make a statement, what is evidence to support that statement?
Critical Approach
Many students ?described? events rather than analysing and evaluating the situation.
At postgraduate level students should be:
? Synthesising information from a variety of validated sources.
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? Critically examining both the strategic position and direction.
Resources
? What resources did you use?
? Are they reliable and validated sources?
? Did you use a sufficient number of sources to gain an effective understanding
of the key issues?
? What other sources could you use to gain an understanding of your research
topic?
? Did you read the appropriate sections within the core text? If not, why not?
? Did you refer to the core text in your original submission? If not, why not?
? Did you use Locate to find additional information? If not, why not?
Presentation
? Check grammar and spelling before submission. Read and re-read your work
to make sure that you are communicating information clearly and effectively. It
is not the role of the marker to ?interpret? what you have written. You need to
demonstrate a suitable level of knowledge and understanding. If you are not
sure about the quality of your written English, then give the submission to
someone whose first language is English to read. They should read for
understanding only and not make comment on the content of the work.
? Follow the instructions regarding type face and point size.
? Use sub headings to highlight key areas.
? Use sub headings and then provide detail/discussion/analysis.
Referencing
As you will see from the rubric, marks are attached to referencing. This should be
taken seriously not just because of the rubric but because it is evidence of good
academic practice. You need to cite sources within the text itself and within a
reference list that is located at the end of the submission.
If you are quoting directly from a source (for example, a journal article), then that
direct quote must be in quotation marks. Additionally, you must cite the source next
to the quotation.
If you are using an idea, a concept, a framework, a set of statistics, then you still
need to cite the source of that information.
On Moodle there is a guide to referencing. If you have not read this then do so prior
to submitting your work. Make sure that you are compliant.
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Time Management
In some cases students did not submit on time. Late submissions are not marked.
Do not miss your deadlines. Set out a plan of action ? there are various guides in the
library that can help you plan your time, not just for resits but also for your other
modules.
Submission dates are provided by Registry and are on Moodle.
You will upload to Moodle in the resit submission area provided.
Contact
You can either see me during my office hour (see Moodle) or contact me via email if
you have any questions/ queries
Finally
Undertaking a postgraduate degree programme is not just about the ?end result?, it is
about the journey. This journey is about learning and self-development and all that
those words encompass. A person who really wants to succeed will engage in the
journey
