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Assignment Overview

This is an individual assignment.

For this sustainability research project, you will be choosing an industry sector to focus on (agriculture, manufacturing, services telecommunications Information technology, etc.)

You will be responsible to research the sustainability priorities and challenges for this sector.

After researching the stainability priorities and challenges, you will be offering recommendations for how a company in this sector can improve their sustainability.

The Content

After some thought you decide that your research report should answer the following questions:

2. What is sustainability and CSR? Provide a definition for each of these terms.
4. What THREE sustainability challenges are most relevant to businesses in your sector in Canada? Why are they relevant?
6. What are businesses in your sector doing to manage those challenges? Please provide a description of THREE companies demonstrating best practices.
8. Based on the above,describe THREE sustainability actions you would recommend a company in your sector of choiceundertake considering your research.

Clarifications

• Sector/Company: You should choose a real industry sectorfor the recommendations that you will make for a company operating in the sector.
• Audience: Remember that your audience may not be familiar with the concepts of sustainability and CSR. You should be clear in your discussion and definitions
• Question 3: When mentioning best practice examples, you should focus on what specific businesses do (or say they do). You may refer to what other actors such as the government or other organizations do to help businesses in this area, but this is not what is being asked here.

Assignment Structure

Note that it is the contents that counts, rather the length of the assignment. The body of the paper should be divided into appropriately numbered sections, sub-sections, sub-sub-sections, etc., each with descriptive titles. Please follow the following order:

Title Page

The title of your report should be informative, and should include your Name, the Course, the Due date, the Professor's name and other pertinent information to draw the reader's attention.

Executive Summary

Here you should summarize the main points of your report to give your reader a whole picture of the research when they have no time to read it all. This should be at the beginning of the paper, as it is a summary of your paper, you should write this section after you have completed the research and recommendations.

Introduction

The introduction should provide the context for this report: why it was written and why the topic that you will present in the rest of the report is important. You should also define the objectives that will guide the rest of the report. You should also describe the sector you have chosen so that the readers know what to expect.

Research Question1-3

This is the main part of your assignment where you present the findings of your research. You may use the research questions (1 through 3) as the basis to structure this part.

2. What is sustainability and CSR?
4. What THREE sustainability challenges are most relevant to businesses in your sector in Canada? Why are they relevant?
6. What are businesses in your sector doing to manage those challenges? Please provide a description of THREE companies demonstrating best practices.

Your description of your research must be well-documented. Make use of tables, figures, and diagrams (with appropriate captions), and include literature references appropriately. Be concise and informative.

Recommendation

Based on Questions 1 to 3, describe in detail Three Sustainability Actions you would recommend that a company in the sector undertake based on your research. This is essentially answering the last research question.

References (Depending upon the number of references used)

Use to format your references AND in-text citations. It is expected that 5-10 references are adequate for this kind of assignment. THIS IS NOT AN OPINION PAPER. You MUST support points made with outside research and all information found MUST be referenced (see below instructions).

Notes on & Style

Please note that just listing the references at the end of the assignment is not adequate!

You should also provide proper and frequent citationsthroughout your text. possibly a plagiarism case. Also, please note that through Safe Assign it is extremely easy to see whether you have copied text (without proper citation) from web sources or from other students. More information and help: https://seneca.libguides.com/mla

The following are examples of phrases that are signs of writing styles that are not appropriate for a research assignment:

2. "I believe...": when used in any part other than the "Your Recommendations" part. A research assignment is based on your research findings rather than your beliefs.
4. "Research shows...":when used without citations. What research? This is what a research assignment is all about!
6. "CSR in Canada is adequate/non adequate...":when this is not supported by your research findings but only on your intuition or prior knowledge on the subject.

Grading Criteria

You will receive a letter grade for your assignment and it will based on the following Criteria:

2. Proper Title
4. Executive Summary
6. Introduction
8. Description of Sustainability/CSR (Q1)
10. Relevant sustainability and CSR issues for your sector (Q2)
12. Canadian sustainability/CSR best practices (Q3)
14. Recommendations (Q4)
16. Overall writing style, structure and format

Potential Deductions: Improper or lack of in-text citation, works cited, frequentgrammarand spelling mistakes

Also, ensure to attach/include all copies of the sources/research you used with your main assignment report. This can be in the form of appendices or as separate attachments with your main report,