Essay Assignment Details:
Essay Question: Select a corporation that operates on a global scale, with significant needs in security, and imagine that you have been asked to create a security department for the company. Describe how you would build a functioning security department. Would you use proprietary, contract, or hybrid security? How would you create a hiring and training program and attract the best people? What other recommendations would you make to upper management?
Please ensure that you keep to within +/-10% of the specified word limits. Essays that do not keep to within these limits will be penalized.
The following additional guidelines apply to your essay:
-All citations must be referenced using the APA standard, with parenthetical, in-text citations.
-A full bibliography must also be included at the end of the essay, listing all sources in alphabetical order. The bibliography must be excluded from the word count.
-The essay must of suitable scholarly standard, with all quotes and citations properly referenced.
-All students must use at least five scholarly sources (journal articles, academic books, government reports, etc.). The aim of the exercise is to gain practice at original research
and to learn how to recognize a good source on which to base an argument. As such, encyclopedias (e.g., Wikipedia) and questionable websites are not permitted for use as references. You may cite news sources, but they do not count towards your source count.
-The aim of the essay is to gain practice at building an argument and to learn how to recognize good research. As such, students must provide attribution throughout their paper for each fact, assertion, or argument. Attribution is given with citations and a bibliography. All quotations should be cited, of course, but overly-extensive use of quotes to inflate your word-count will result in a lower grade.
-Plagiarism, which is defined as claiming the work of others as your own, is totally unacceptable. As well, using the language of another source with only a few word changes is a form of plagiarism, even if you provide a properly cited reference. Attempting to artificially construct a paper by pasting together the words of others, with little or no original writing of your own, is simply another form of plagiarism and will be treated as such. The aim here is for you to generate your own research.
Essay grading criteria
Essays are graded on the following criteria:
-Argument: Stated in introduction? Convincing? Original?
-Analysis: Critical discussion/evaluation of facts? Conclusions logical?
-Coherence & Structure: Line of argumentation? Contradictions? Terms used
consistently? Logical Structure?
-Research: Enough relevant sources? Quality of sources? Primary sources?
-Language and form: Grammar/punctuation? Page numbers? Paragraphs?
Referencing? Bibliography? Respecting word-count?
Each one of these criteria will then by graded according to whether it has:
-No issues (-0);
-Minor issues (-1);
-Moderate issues (-3);
