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    BBA310 LEADERSHIP IN MANAGEMENT
    ASSIGNMENT ONE FURTHER GUIDANCE
    1. Introduction.
    I have written these notes to give you some further guidance for the first essay for
    BBA310. I hope you find them clear and useful.
    Kind regards
    ed
    (Dr Edward Wray-Bliss, Unit Convenor)
    2. The Question
    Write a 2500 word academic essay on the following question.
    Drawing upon the history and origins of leadership, the nature of
    managerial work and/or discussions around gender and leadership, what
    ‘myths’ about leadership are we still reproducing?
    3. General Instructions.
    •  This is a 2500 Word Individual Essay, due before Friday 12pm (midday) of
    Week 5, Weighting: 30%
    •  You will need to submit your essay to turnitin on the unit’s ilearn site.
    •  No hard copies need to be submitted.
    •  You are required to use essential tutorial readings, several of the additional
    readings on the ilearn site and concepts and arguments in the lecture slides
    to answer this question (as a guide, a minimum of 6 articles from the unit
    would need to be used for this essay).
    •  You are required to take a critical, questioning approach in your essay – not
    to simply reproduce taken-for-granted assertions about the importance of
    leadership.
    •  You should base your essay on academic articles that have been uploaded
    for you on the ilearn site and those referenced in lectures.
    •  If you wish to use articles and sources from outside the unit you should be
    aware that these should only be used to supplement the articles on the ilearn
    site and referenced in the lectures – to hope to pass the assessment you
    need to show that you have read and used the articles and readings that
    constitute this unit.
    •  General discussions of leadership drawn from sources that do not
    demonstrate engagement with the readings, ideas and syllabus of this unit
    will result in a fail mark.
    •  A marking rubric will be uploaded for you on the ilearn site shortly and you
    should check this to see what you are being assessed upon.
    •  No extensions will be granted. Late tasks will be accepted up to 72 hours
    after the submission deadline. There will be a deduction of 10% of the total
    available marks made from the total awarded mark for each 24 hour period or
    part thereof that the submission is late (for example, 25 hours late in
    submission – 20% penalty).
    •  This penalty does not apply for cases in which an application for disruption of
    studies is made to the Faculty and has been approved.
    4. Further guidance
    Here I present some further guidance on the nature of an academic essay. For some
    of you this may merely repeat what you already do, for some others it may be a
    useful refresher.
    •  An essay is an argument. More specifically it is your argument in relation to
    the question that you have been set. This means that it is not just a summary
    of someone else’s views or writing. It is instead a piece of academic work in
    which you present your answer to the question asked, that draws on a range
    of other people’s published academic material to support and develop your
    answer.
    •  So, to do this you need to look at the lectures and read-around the subject by
    selecting from among the tutorial articles and further reading articles on the
    ilearn site. Having read a fair few articles, and thought about these and the
    points from the lecture, you then need to start to work out what your overall
    argument (your own particular answer to the question asked) is going to be.
    Then start to structure and plan this argument and continue to do more
    reading to develop and support it.
    •  Your argument must have a clear, logical structure in the finished essay. This
    means explicit Sections, that each deal with a particular aspect of your core
    argument, and an Introduction, that tells the reader what you will argue and
    how you will structure your argument. I would suggest 3 or 4 sections for an
    essay of this length – plus your Introduction and Conclusion.
    •  Your essay must show evidence of substantial reading of relevant academic
    material and it must support its main points through references to this
    published academic material. For this unit, this means that you need to read,
    use and cite a minimum of six essential and/or further readings from the unit
    ilearn site.
    •  You essay must have a Conclusion which summarises, again, your argument
    and how you developed this in the main sections of your essay and it must
    have an alphabetically ordered bibliography of the items referenced in its
    pages.
    The concept of using an essay to develop and present an ‘argument’ may be
    unfamiliar to some of you. You may be more used to writing essays that merely
    summarise ‘for’ and ‘against’ points of view, or that summarise sources such as a
    textbook. This is not what we are after at this level. To help with understanding what
    is meant by developing an ‘argument’ in your essay: your argument is your core,
    overarching, answer to the question asked. You need to tell the reader what this
    argument is in a clear and explicit opening paragraph at the very start of your essay
    and then tell the reader how you will structure your essay into sections to develop
    this argument. (This is, of course, why each tutorial starts by asking you to
    summarise the argument and structure of the article that you have read – so as to
    get you into the idea of seeing academic work as always organised around an
    argument and a structure).
    I have no problem with you using the first-person form of address to do this. So, for
    example, your essay may start with something like this:
    ‘In this essay I am going to argue that the [origins and history of leadership/
    nature of managerial work/ discussions around gender and leadership] have
    helped construct a number of powerful myths which affect how we
    conceptualise leadership today. In particular, I suggest that writings on
    [………..] construct the image of leaders as [….….] and [………..]. Further, I
    will argue that these myths have [….hampered?....... helped?..... hindered?....
    enabled?]  the  development  of  leadership  and  organisations  by
    [………………]. I make these arguments in three sections. In Section One, I
    draw upon the work of Meindl et al (1985), Pfeffer (1977) and Gemmil and
    Oakley (1992) to draw out the idea of leadership as, in part, a romanticised
    and mythical construction. In Section Two, I draw upon [……..] to argue that
    [……..]. In Section Three, I […….etc….etc.]. Finally, in the Conclusion to the
    essay, I summarise the arguments of the preceding sections and articulate
    my final point regarding the myths of leadership, focussing upon the affect
    that these myths have on current practices of managing and organising.
    Overall, it is my argument in this work that we mythologise leadership in
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    Introduction
    This first paragraph introduces the essay and tells the
    reader explicitly what your argument is and how your
    essay will be structured into sections to make this
    argument… Make sure that your argument clearly
    answers the question set.
    This is your section heading for Section One
    At the end of the Section, remind the reader of what the
    section aimed to do and how the next section builds upon
    this to develop your overall argument further: e.g. “So far, I
    have argued that leadership developed from a history of
    ….. in the following section I will show how this history
    has carried through the values of…. into contemporary
    accounts of leadership…”
    In paragraphs, with a clear line space between each
    paragraph, you now develop the points you want to make in
    Section Two. In every paragraph, the points that you make
    should develop in a logical fashion, and be supported by
    references to and discussion of academic work and/ or
    other supporting sources.
    In paragraphs, with a clear line space between each
    paragraph, you now develop the points you want to
    make in Section One. In every paragraph, the points that
    you make should develop in a logical fashion, and be
    supported by references to and discussion of academic
    work and/ or other supporting sources. e.g. “As Meindle
    et al. (1985) demonstrate, leadership has achieved a high
    status and significance in contemporary organisational
    life…..”
    … . New paragraph, dealing with another point, linked
    to the one above, also supported by references…
    This is your section heading for Section Two
    You might insert a quote here from one of the
    readings to help make your point. This would
    be indented, “in quotation marks” and would
    have the reference at the end of the quote that
    contains the author, date and page numbers: eg.
    (Smith 1990: 120-121)
    Page 1  Page 2
    Page 3
    … . New paragraph, dealing with another point, linked
    to the one above, also supported by references…
    At the end of the Section, remind the reader of what the
    section aimed to do and how the next section builds
    upon this to develop your overall argument further…
    This is your section heading for Section Three
    In paragraphs, with a clear line space between each
    paragraph, you now develop the points you want to
    make in Section Three. In every paragraph, the points
    that you make should develop in a logical fashion, and
    be supported by references to and discussion of
    academic work and/ or other supporting sources.
    … . New paragraph, dealing with another point, linked
    to the one above, also supported by references…
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    … . New paragraph, dealing with another point, linked to
    the one above, also supported by references…
    At the end of the Section, remind the reader of what the
    section aimed to do and link to the conclusion.…
    Section heading: “Conclusion”
    Start by reminding the reader what your overall argument
    was – this should be very similar to your introduction. E.g.
    “I have argued in this essay that….”
    Then summarise how you went about developing your
    argument in your essay e.g. “I made this argument in 3
    sections. In Section One I…. In Section Two I…” etc.
    Make sure it is absolutely clear how your essay has
    answered the question set.
    Finish with a flourish if possible – end with a quote, an
    example, an observation, a final thought, etc that wraps up
    the whole essay and encapsulates the issues succinctly and
    powerfully.
    An overview of how an essay is structured and presented
    Page 5
    Bibliography
    Include one single, alphabetically ordered, list here of all
    the sources that you referenced in the pages of your
    essay.
    Include all the sources you referenced, but do not
    include any that you may have read but didn’t explicitly
    reference in the main pages of your essay.
    This list of references here should include all the
    necessary pieces of information in the correct format.
    Don’t give away easy marks by not doing this correctly!

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