1.3. Supervision

A coursework is a supervised study. A list of supervisers is approved by the dean’s office and can be changed at a short notice. If more than one teacher supervise the subject coursework, students are free to choose the one to work with: ask the teacher to be your superviser and include you in the superviser’s assessment list. Please, keep notice that each teacher has a certain quota of courseworks for supervision. Therefore the principle FIFO (first in-first out) is transformed into ”first to come, first to be consulted by the superviser in question”. Those who are late to make a choice will be consulted by a teacher who has not exhausted his/her quota.

1.4. Coursework preparation schedule

Supervisers fix the consultation hours. Students are responsible for coming and asking for guidance according to the following schedule:

Deadline Work to be done and approved by the superviser

Fall semester Spring semester

10 October 10 March Choosing a topic, developing Contents (draft*),

making a list of Bibliography (draft)

5 November 5 April Draft paper is to be presented to the superviser

25 November 25 April Final paper is to be presented to the superviser

26.11.-10.12 26.04-10.05 Superviser assesses the final paper and points

the date of oral defence

20 December 20 May Presentation (oral defence) of the coursework

* “Draft” means that in the course of work the document can be corrected and improved.

If the deadline requirements are not met, the penalties can be applied (see unit 5 of the Manual).

2. REQUIREMENTS TO A COURSEWORK

2.1. Coursework structure

A coursework paper normally includes:

• title page;

• table of contents;

• introduction;

• text main body;

• conclusions/recommendations;

• endnotes;

• bibliography;

• appendices.

2.2. Title page (sample)

PLEKHANOV RUSSIAN ACADEMY OF ECONOMICS

INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS SCHOOL

COURSEWORK IN LABOUR ECONOMICS

MOTIVATION POLICY IN COMPANY X

Student: Otlichnick A.

Group: 5555

Supervisor: Prof. Znaikin Z.

Moscow

2006

2.3. Table of Contents

The coursework should be well structured according to the logic of the research and its major target. The structure is represented in the table of contents.

All the structural parts of the coursework should be titled. The titles play a very important role in a project writing. They should give the idea of the topic and support the thesis statement.

A typical mistake students make is to give the following titles:

Ch.1.Theory.

Ch.2.Case study.

Ch.3.Practical implementation.

An effective title should “work” for the topic and show how the topic is developed in the course of research.

Let us consider the examples of the effective chapter titles and their correspondence to the topic and the coursework statement.

Topic: Motivation policy in Company X.

Coursework statement: To increase the personnel involvement pecuniary methods of motivation should be supported by the nonpecuniary incentives as well.