Essay Topic
Critically evaluate and reflect on your studies during this course. Discuss and explore some of the
distinctions, principles, concepts and issues that you encountered in this course Relate and explain
the issue using prior research and theories.
[ HINT: Your Journal that you maintained should be a very useful reference!)
The word limit is 2000. References and Appendices are excluded from the above word limit.
Appendices should be used sparingly and only if the information is very important. However,
detailed information included in the appendices must be summarised and referred to in the
main body of the essay.
The deadline for the individual project/essay is 24 April 2023 by 12.00 hrs via Turnitin
Guideline
This is a reflective essay that requires you to explore and understand some of the
distinctions, principles, concepts and issues that you encountered during this course in
either your lectures, workshops or the reading materials.
‘Distinctions’: Reflect on the lectures, workshop materials and the reading
materials. Are there any issues, points or arguments presented that were new
or surprising to you? Anything that contradicted your prior assumptions or
knowledge.
e.g 1: entrepreneurship might not always lead to economic development!
‘Principles & Stories’: Reflect on the principles, concepts, theories or even
examples presented in the lectures, workshop materials or in the reading
materials. Did you understand the rationale and logic of these principles,
concepts, theories or examples?
e.g 2: Targeting increased market share can be a costly affair!
Actions: What you hear, read or experience is essentially stored as short-term
memory. As the term suggests this memory is short term and short-lived . Unless
you take specific and immediate steps this memory will be lost. You should look
at each of the distinctions, principles or stories and take immediate steps to
convert them to long term memory, knowledge or deep learning. Action can be
anything (not necessarily just the example given below) that helps you to
convert your short-term memory into something that you will be able to retain
over a long period.
eg. 1 : Check out a distinctive idea, principles by trying to identify the source –
Literature review!!
This essay is therefore by definition broad and you can choose any topic of interest and
explore how this may or may not relate to entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial
enterprises.
This essay is designed to test your depth of understanding and research. There are no right
or wrong answers but simply the quality and level of your own original arguments. This
essay is therefore not about reproducing existing theories or concepts but its application
especially in the context of entrepreneurship or entrepreneurial enterprises.
Tentative Structure
This is a tentative structure designed to assist you in writing your essay. This is certainly not
exhaustive and neither is it the stipulated structure. Please feel free to adapt and modify it to your
requirement.
1. Introduction : That clearly sets the context and explains the problem. It could be an
idea/concept that you came across in the lectures/workshops that you feel is worth
investigating. Why is the subject relevant in the context of entrepreneurship or
entrepreneurial enterprises? (approx 500 words)
2. Literature Review (Actions): A section exploring and developing an understanding of the
problem from a theoretical standpoint. The review should assist in distilling some of the
measures/variables that can be used to deconstruct the problem. You can use any
conceptual frameworks. graphs or diagrams that assists your understanding. This is the
‘actions’ referred to in your personal journal (approx 750 words)
3. Application : Applying the measures/variables from section 2 to the problem at hand in
order to explain ‘why’ this problem arose. How does this application relate to
entrepreneurship or entrepreneurial enterprises? (approx 500 words)
4. Conclusion: Discuss how this problem could be incorporated or might be avoided in the
future either in the overall course or at a personal level. (approx 250 words)
