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BUS 300 Foundations of Business - Westcliff University

Discussion Question 1 - What type of business would you like to own?
What trends are shaping entrepreneurship and small-business ownership?

Assignment 1 You are to submit a 2-3-page paper, answering the questions listed below.

Consider you are starting your own business. Would it be a for profit or nonprofit? Defend your choice.

Describe the business, and discuss any business plan components necessary to start your own business. Make sure you provide enough detail to demonstrate that you have thought it through.

You need to provide a minimum of two academic or peer-reviewed references (each reference must be cited within the paper). The page length does not include the title or reference pages. APA formatting (7"1 Edition) is required.

Owning Your Own Business

Introduce material here... Remember, each case study must have the headings listed below and must be answered according to assignment instructions; each heading is worth a percentage of each case grade and this is how your work should be submitted. Your audience is someone like your roommate -intelligent, educated, but has NO IDEA what the case study is about. You do not want to copy-and-paste the case, but put forth a brief summary so your reader knows what is going on.

This section is generally one paragraph. The easiest way to explain this section is to think of it like an abstract or introduction. If written properly, this section can actually serve as the abstract for the paper. It will, in a sense, set up the rest of the paper, which is the review of the case, analysis, recommendations, and the summary and conclusions sections. Remember that you obtained this information from the textbook. Consequently, you should cite Shah et al., (2018). You should NOT write According to the textbook as your reader has NO IDEA who or what is that. Do remember to take notes as you read through the case study information so that you are prepared to complete this report.
If there is a second paragraph, it will look like this. The paper should be written in third person narrative and not in the first person. Note: The required headings that must be in the paper are bolded and should be kept bolded. One other note: a business is an it, not a they. Remember that when using pronouns describing a business. Make sure you always include enough text to form a complete paragraph before moving to the next section.

Your Business: Profit or NonProfit
In this section, you will briefly describe what you will cover. It should only take a few sentences. After describing what you will cover, this section will answer the mandate, "Consider you are starting your own business. Would it be a for profit or nonprofit? Defend your choice." Make sure you always include enough text to form two complete paragraphs before moving to the next section. You can also support your thoughts with quoted or paraphrased material, but that can never replace your own words, plus it must be properly identified, cited, and referenced.

Business Description
In this section, you will briefly describe what you will cover. It should only take a few sentences. After describing what you will cover, this section will answer the mandate, "Describe the business." Make sure you always include enough text to form a complete paragraph before moving to the next section, while demonstrating your understanding of the material. Be sure to support the content with the course text and outside research. Remember to cite the sources whenever you paraphrase information or use a direct quote.

Business Plan Components
In this section, you will briefly describe what you will cover. It should only take a few sentences. After describing what you will cover, this section will answer the mandate, "discuss any business plan components necessary to start your own business." This could be licenses, insurance, vehicles, etc. Make sure you always include enough text to form a complete paragraph before moving to the next section.

Conclusion
This section will tie together all sources used for this professional assignment, conclusions drawn from the readings, and any inconsistencies. This section will generally be one to two paragraphs. Notice the paper has a continuous flow; there are no page breaks between sections. The only page breaks occur between the title page and the introduction, and between the summary or conclusions and the reference page. Note: If there is a header at the bottom of the page )on the last line), you will need to insert a page break immediately before the header to properly move it to the next page with its text. All references for the assignment must appear on a separate page (see the following page for an example). Best practice is to always have at least 2 peer-reviewed or academic references (including assigned readings), along with your textbook.

APA FORMAT