Oligopoly markets Research Paper 2: Assessment criteria ASSESSMENT Weighting: Length/Limit: 25% Due: Week12 Maximum of 10 pages or 3000 Words and 15 minutes presentation Groups of 2 or 3 choose any One topic out of Last Five weeks lectures (Week7 to Week 11) and research the topic in more depth and present your paper with written report and presentation. For example if you choose a topic on Trade Policy you need to do research on this topic and write a report which will analyse how Trade policies are affecting the countries and companies in their pursuit of market expansion or market share or profitability. You need to elaborate on both sides of the arguments as which countries/industries and winning and which countries/industries are loosing or have not enjoyed the benefits of particular. Trade policy of a country or group of countries. You need to research at least 5 to 10 sources /articles for your paper. Simply cut and paste from Google is not acceptable. Academic research is the key to get good marks with proper references. (APA style or Harvard Business) To make sure that we have papers on variety of topics in the subject: policy of ‘first-come, first-served basis” is followed. That means you need to come and register your topic ASAP with your lecturer so that no other group can take your topic for this paper. You will deliver the findings of your research topic in Week12 Written Report Presentation 15 10 Total 25 The Research Papers (25%) each Each student will nominate a topic and deliver a fifteen minute live presentation (worth 10%) of their research on that topic. Following the delivery of the presentation, the topic will be written up as a seminar report (worth 15%) and submitted to your lecturer within a week of the live presentation. You may incorporate ideas generated in the live presentation. If a live presentation is below standard a time extension may be granted to allow for improving the quality of the written report. Organisation of the research report – a key ingredient to writing a successful essay involves the planning or organising stage. Organising can help you to sort out your ideas and to present your essay in the order that communicates best to your readers. Organisation is the procedure of constructing an outline that acts as a plan for your writing task. An outline forces you to think before you write. Your essay is to be structured and written as a business report. It, therefore, must begin with a Management (or Executive) Summary within which you state in stark form (i.e. unsupported by argument) what you are asserting in this report and you must do that in less than two pages. You can begin the main body of the report with some general background followed by a description and discussion of significance of the specific issues considered. This introduction will normally end with a brief paragraph outlining the plan of the rest of the essay. The next section which could be divided into 2-4 sub-sections if necessary contains an in-depth discussion of the relevant issues based on the existing literature and/or data. You must provide in-text references to your sources. The last section contains a brief summary followed by a complete list of references that are cited in the text of the essay. Follow a standard referencing method consistently. Suggested limits are as follows: Executive Summary: ideally one page but no more than two. Sections 1: Introduction 400-600 words, Section 2: Main body of the essay 2,000-2,500 words, Sections 3: Conclusions 100-300 words, References (5-15 references).