Assignment Guide

 A piece of advice to understand your assignment brief is do not rush, sit down get a cup of tea or chocolate, get your pen and paper and start reading the brief, make jottings and the rest would follow.

Simple steps to analyse your assignment question

1. Scan through for a first look.

2. Read line by line for a thorough read.

3. Understand the verbs that tell you what to do.  Example: explain, critically examine, evaluate, describe, outline, assess, appraise.

4.  Pick out the keywords and check how they connect to another. Please see the assignment sample below.

Assignment sample

Undertake an appraisal of a publicly quoted company (London Stock Exchange) along with its financial performance and position. Please submit your appraisal in report format, using the CORE analysis framework.

• The CORE analysis framework will be expected to be applied as part of the submission.

• Porter’s 5 forces should be applied as part of the ‘External Context’ section of applying the CORE analysis.

• A SWOT analysis should be applied as part of the ‘Internal Context’ section of the CORE analysis.

Example of keywords:
Public company, London stock exchange, financial performance, position     

   5. Pick out the task words (directive words) and understand them. Example: submit in report format, use the core analysis framework (be guided by it when writing), use Porter’s 5 forces as part of external context of CORE analysis framework, use SWOT analysis for internal context of CORE analysis framework. 

6. Decide on the type of sources required for the search.

 Example
Market research sources (databases), & academic search engine : this would be ideal  to investigate the company’s financial performance and position.

Textbook : to understand the Core analysis frameworks.

7. Frame your search terms and search formations: please see explanations below.