“In the News Assignment #3”
All students should review this article:
https://techcrunch.com/2019/07/23/healthcare-startups-struggle-to-navigate-a-business-world-thats-set-up-for-them-to-fail/ (Links to an external site.)
This is probably the most challenging of all three “In the News” assignments. So, it is important students jump on this assignment as early as possible. The article list three challenges “of the current ecosystem.” Based on the concepts discussed in the course textbook, explain how a startup can overcome come each of these challenges.
“In the News” Assignment
The professor will assign each student to analyze and summarize recent (within the last few
months) news articles with an underlying theme of this course’s goals and objectives. It’s
designed to make the material from the textbook come alive.
Points Awarded Per Category
Category
20
10
Occasionally, the writing has a
tendency to go off topic, or be
Everything “makes sense” and
repetitive. Overall, it feels like
flows well. The submission is
the student is having a difficulty
not repetitive. The author makes clearly stating major points and
strong points that are supported justifying/substantiating them
by concepts introduced in the
with the course’s key concepts.
course. The strongest
Many students will receive this
Content/Flow
submissions will partner the
partial credit when they just
course textbook’s lessons with
being general and avoid digging
other external scholarly sources. into details.
There are no random
When students do not receive
statements/facts just thrown
credit for this category, it is
together. The overall goal is
usually because they are not
clear and the submission sticks
caught up on the required
with a consistent theme.
readings.
The submission clearly includes
all major sections described in
each assignment’s instructions.
It is recommended students
Components
utilize sub-headers to highlight
At least 75% of all major
this effort. This includes the
components described in the
minimum number of required
assignment’s instructions are
references.
included.
The writing does not contain
The writing does not contain
more than 2 obvious and
more than 3 obvious and
ongoing individual grammatical ongoing individual grammatical
errors (i.e. run on sentences,
errors (i.e. run on sentences,
sentence fragments, missing
sentence fragments, missing
Grammar
words, lack of paragraph or
words, lack of paragraph or
comma usage, and etc.). It is
comma usage, and etc.). It is
recommended students utilize a recommended students utilize a
credible proof reader to avoid
credible proof reader to avoid
this error.
this error.
APA
The writing does not contain
more than 1 significant APA
components (i.e. running
header, page numbers,
references, citations, headers,
and etc.). Students will find it
beneficial to understand APA
formatting as they go through
higher levels of academia. So,
this requirements helps to
sharpen that skill.
The writing has does not
contain more than 2 significant
APA components (i.e. running
header, page numbers,
references, citations, headers,
and etc.). Students will find it
beneficial to understand APA
formatting as they go through
higher levels of academia. So,
this requirements helps to
sharpen that skill.
*If a student fails to meet the requirements to obtain at least half
credit in one of the cetgrories described, no credit will be awarded
for the specific category in focus.