CO-OPERATIVE EDUCATION REPORT – INFORMATION FOR STUDENTS
This Report is the culmination of your semester’s work in Co-operative Education. The Co_xFFFE_operative Education Report is your opportunity to demonstrate your ability to write a Business
report and demonstrate your capability as a Business graduate.
You will write a report in which you draw on your experience and use examples from your Co operative Education placement. This should include:
Your report will comprise three parts:
Part 1:
Your Experience: A reflection on your Co-operative Education experience including a
self-evaluation of how your experience has developed your business discipline
knowledge, enhanced your understanding of the importance of your professional skills,
increased your understanding of business and including benefits and the challenges you
faced (1000 words).
Part 2: Your Graduate Profile: Discuss and evaluate how your business major(s), minor(s),
broader student capabilities and the BBus Programme Learning Goals have prepared
you for the world of business and link to your future career development (500-750
words).
Part 3:
Your Contemporary Business Issue: Critically analyse and discuss your contemporary
issue from your business discipline knowledge perspective. (2000-2500 words).
You should:
Provide a title and the background to your chosen contemporary
issue
Identify and outline the implications, benefits, and challenges of the
issue for your industry or organisation
Support your analysis and discussion of these benefits and
challenges with relevant literature, theories, and concepts from
your business studies knowledge.
Identify the ethical or social issues that are relevant and discuss
what your industry or organisation should do or is doing to act
responsibly
Analyse, synthesise and evaluate your findings
Propose some recommendations and discuss how they will benefit
your industry or organisation
You must only draw on secondary research i.e. relevant academic literature, theories, and concepts
for your entire report to support your discussion.
You must not disclose any confidential information or conduct any primary research.
The work must not have previously been submitted by yourself or another person.
Ensure all researched information has been acknowledged by citing and referencing in APA 7th
ed.
You are required in more detail to:
Write a report in which you reflect on your Co-operative Education experience which
includes your development during your Co-operative experience in your BBus Learning
Goals, and as a professional. You will demonstrate a comprehensive understanding of a
relevant contemporary business issue through research and application to your organisation
and/or industry.
Your report should include the following:
Title Page
Executive Summary
Table of Contents
Introduction, conclusion, and recommendations (5-10% overall word count)
Part 1: Your Experience (1000-1250 words) (written in first person)
Introduce your Cooperative Education placement to provide context. Assume
the reader knows nothing about your placement – include your activities, any
changes to your placement organisation, its environment, and your
industry/sector.
o Reflective overview: This could include reflections on any or all of th
e
following (depending on your circumstances)
Your discipline knowledge e.g. what contributions did you make, was
your discipline knowledge at the standard required, any gaps in your
knowledge.
Your professional skills against initial thoughts (Your Development
Plan) and expectations, any challenges and how you overcame them.
Your progress and performance at your placement, include your own
perceptions of your performance during the time you were on site in
your placement and/or working remotely and support with
examples/feedback.
Reflection on what went well and not so well, key challenges that you
encountered and how you dealt with these and where to from here.
You should access both Course Material and Course resources for
guidance on reflection including
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include the impact that the changing environment has had for you
personally (professional skills) and professionally (discipline related) and
your future.
Part 2: Graduate Profile (BBus Learning Goals) and your career plans (500-750 words) (written in
first person)
Review the BBus Learning Goals assessment you completed during the
workshops for your Development Plan and in your Final Portfolio
Where are you now
How did you get there
How did these goals prepare you for the world of business
What else is important
What are the implications for your future career
Discuss and evaluate how your business major(s) and minor(s) and your
broader student capabilities have prepared you for your placement and
career
Part 3: Your Contemporary Issue (2000-2500 words)
Introduce your contemporary issue, provide relevant background
information, and discuss how your issue can be applied to your
organisation and/or industry.
Write up your findings from your research (use relevant headings &
subheadings) in which you demonstrate a comprehensive understanding
and analysis of your contemporary issue. To demonstrate your
understanding of the issue it is expected that you will analyse,
synthesise, and evaluate the material and evidence you have gathered.
You must address the major related to your activities and, if appropriate,
you can draw on theory from your second major(s), minor(s) and any
elective business courses.
Your analysis, synthesis and evaluation should include:
The implications, benefits, and challenges of the issue for your
organisation or industry.
Identification ofthe ethical orsocial issues that are relevant and discuss what
your industry or organisation is doing to act responsibly.
Organisation of your material and evidence based on your analysis,
research, and evaluation to arrive at conclusions and
recommendations.
Discussion of how these conclusions/recommendations relate to your
organisation and/orindustry.
Academic Integrity:
Don’t forget:
o You must acknowledge all the sources of the information you use
o Referencing is the formal acknowledgement of the source of any material (other than
your own ideas) used in your work
o The source material used should NOT include work from other students or have been
submitted by you in previous course work.
o You are expected to complete your assessment without assistance from generative
artificial intelligence tools (GenAI) such as ChatGPT and DALLE2.