Coursework 1: Sustainable Business Plan Presentation

Motivation for choice of business (10%)

Coursework 1 will be in the form of a presentation of a sustainable business plan. You are required to produce a Power Point presentation which will pitch the business proposition to a panel of business experts who will ask questions to ascertain viability of your business proposition. Your proposal could be a product or service based business in any sector and will need to include the following:

1. Motivation for choice of business (10%)

2. The process you went through to generate this business idea (10%)

3. Feasibility studies conducted (10%)

4. Details of the product/service to be offered (15%)

5. Potential market opportunities (20%)

6. Attractiveness of the industry (20%)

7. Vision for your business (5%)

The remaining 10% will go into assignment parameters such as conviction, engagement, structure, content etc.

Students are to use wider range of resources from peer reviewed academic journals as well as books and other academic databases such as Mintel, EBSCohost, ProQuest etc

· Use Times New Roman font size 11 with 1.5 line spacing.

· Insert page numbers at the bottom of each page

· You must have a cover sheet with your student ID, Name and word count

There are also documents on Harvard referencing on VLE which students can read. Students must use acceptable academic sources including peer-reviewed journal articles, Books, Company websites etc.

How your work will be assessed

Your work will be assessed on the extent to which it demonstrates your achievement of the stated learning outcomes for this assignment (see above) and against other key criteria, as defined in the University’s institutional grading descriptors. If it is appropriate to the format of your assignment and your subject area, a proportion of your marks will also depend upon your use of academic referencing conventions.

· Please also note that work that is submitted up to 10 working days beyond the submission date will be considered a late submission. Late submissions will be marked and the actual mark recorded, but will be capped at the pass mark (typically 40%), provided that the work is of a passing standard. Work submitted after this period will not be marked and will be treated as a non-submission. This assignment should be submitted electronically. Please use the relevant Turnitin submission point in the Submit your work area in your VLE module shell.

You can submit your work as many times as you like before the submission date. If you do submit your work more than once, your earlier submission will be replaced by the most recent version. Once you have submitted your work, you will receive a digital receipt as proof of submission, which will be  sent to your forwarded e-mail address (provided you have set this up). Please keep this receipt for future reference,

Have you read and understood the assessment criteria?
Have you met the learning outcomes? You will lose marks and your work may even be failed if you have not.
Have you demonstrated you can think and write critically in the completed work?
This means you have supported your arguments/explanations appropriately e.g. using relevant academic sources and you have offered discussion points which extends your own or others’ viewpoints to make reasoned conclusions/judgements.
Have you maintained an academic tone throughout your work? Is your work formal, focused, developed and clear?
Have you checked that the referencing in your assignment is in line with your programme requirements?
Have you proof-read your work and used spellcheck software to check your spelling and grammar?
Have you checked the presentation of your work is as specified by your tutor, for example, are font size, colour,style, line spacing and margins as the tutor specified? Have you kept to the word count (or equivalent)?
Can you confirm that the work submitted is your own and not plagiarised?