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Assignment 1: Argumentative academic essay - Individual

Due date: Week 6 - Friday 19th February, 2021 before 7pm

Assessment weighting: 30% of final grade

Word Count: 2000 words (+/- 10%), excludes reference list

Feedback mode: Feedback will be provided using Canvas/Turnitin's inline marking tool and general comments.

Format: Professionally presented using Times New Roman 12 point font, justified

References: Minimum 10, of which at least 5 must be from scholarly work, the remainder can be non-scholarly work where real-world corporate examples are used. Use RMIT Harvard style to format references

Turnitin Similarity Percentage: The expected Turnitin Similarity Percentage is 20% or less.

Learning Outcomes: 1 & 2

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Assignment Brief

The purpose of this Assignment is to develop students' critical thinking skills and to test their knowledge of relevant theory and course content learnt.

In this Assignment you are given the following statement: ‘Organizations can make very little impact on strengthening creativity, innovation and design thinking processes as these are dependent on individual employees'.

Using this statement as a prompt, you are required to write an argumentative academic essay of 2000 words (excluding reference list). In your essay, identify and define what is meant by creativity, innovation and design thinking, whether you agree, do not agree or partially agree with the statement and

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why you agree/disagree/partially disagree using relevant theory. You must also use real-world corporate examples (e.g., examples from companies like Google, Tesla etc) to justify your stance.

What is an argumentative academic essay?

An argumentative academic essay is a piece of writing that examines and interprets a given 'claim' or 'statement' and defends or refutes it with the use of theoretical and practical evidence. In such an essay, you are essentially building up and presenting your own argument(s) on the statement while using scholarly (i.e., journal articles, textbooks, theories etc.) and practical evidence (e.g., corporate stories, news items relating to companies etc) to support your arguments. Hence, you are not simply describing or summarizing what others have said about a given statement but introducing and developing your own arguments on it. Your arguments must be backed by evidence if they are to be valid. In summary, in writing an argumentative academic essay, you are using your critical thinking skills.

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The importance of critical thinking skills

As students undertaking undergraduate study in Singapore, you are expected to develop your critical thinking skills. Critical thinking goes beyond just describing and summarizing phenomena or criticizing phenomena to find their faults. It involves higher level thinking and reasoning skills to independently 'analyse (break things down), evaluate (make judgements based on evidence) and synthesize or create (put parts together into a coherent whole)' (RMIT University n.d). Critical thinking involves doing independent research, reading critically (questioning what you read with an open mind), analyzing and evaluating what your findings, developing your arguments based on solid evidence and synthesizing your arguments and presenting them appropriately.

These skills will help you to become good researchers, independent thinkers and challenge established ideas and perspectives.

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