Coursework submission

Submission procedures

Unless instructed in the assignment brief as to the format of your work, it should otherwise conform to the following. It should:

• Have the standard Management School cover sheet (available from Blackboard and downloadable from here).

• Give the word count on the cover sheet.

• Be presented with 2.5cm margins all round.

• Use Times New Roman or Arial, 11 or 12 point for the main body text.

• Use 1.5 line spacing.

• Number all pages except the first.

• Edit and spell check the material.

• Be properly referenced to the Management School version of Harvard referencing.

sheffield.ac.uk/library/idlt/subject/management

Word length - penalties for exceeding the limit

All assignments have a word limit (excluding reference list and any appendices). You may feel that you need more words to express yourself fully, but our experience is that there is a good discipline involved in keeping to the limit and that with careful editing your work can actually be improved.

You are expected to note the word count honestly on your assignment and this can be checked electronically. If you exceed the word limit you will be subject to a penalty;

Actual word length – permitted word length x 100 Permitted word length

This percentage is rounded up to the next whole number to give the word count penalty. Your work will be marked initially without considering the word count penalty and the grade will be reduced by the word count penalty.

Example: the word count for your assignment is 3,000 words and you have submitted 3,250 words. The work was initially marked at 61. You are 250 words over the limit, the word count percentage excess is 250/3000 = 8.3 percent which is rounded up to a word count penalty of 9. Hence your final grade is 61 - 9 = 52.

Any over length penalties will be applied before any lateness penalties.

Submitting online

All work should be submitted via Turnitin, a plagiarism detection service. Turnitin contains a database of millions of journal articles, website pages, coursework submissions here and elsewhere, e-books and so on. It has been used in the past to identify learners in the school who have:

• Plagiarised from journals.

• Plagiarised from books.

• Colluded with other learners.

• Used work from learners at other universities.

• Taken material from websites and passed it off as their own.

We take the use of unfair means very seriously and Turnitin allows us to detect this.

As this is an automated process you will have confirmation at the point of uploading your work and if this is via a Blackboard/Turnitin assignment you will be allocated a paper ID number which confirms your upload date and time. This will be used to allocate any penalties for late submission. Your work must also include a cover page and can be found on the module Blackboard site.

Note that both the date of submission and the time are firm unless an extension has been granted, and an extended date itself is firm. Take care not to submit at the very last moment as if 12.01 is recorded for your submission one day’s penalty is incurred. It is your responsibility to ensure you understand the submission instructions and follow them.

For information and support regarding Turnitin visit:

sheffield.ac.uk/apse/digital/turnitin

Effect of late submission

You are expected to submit your work by the deadline. If you do not submit on time, your work will be subject to a penalty. Your work will first be marked without penalty and then the penalty will be applied.

For each working day or part thereof that the work is late, the mark will be reduced by five per cent, the resulting mark being rounded up when appropriate to return a final grade on the 100 point scale. If the work is more than five working days late, then it will receive a grade of 0 or be deemed Not Completed (NC). Working days exclude Saturdays, Sundays, public holidays and any other days on which the University is closed.

Example: A piece of work was marked at 60, but was two days late. A reduction of 2 x 5 = 10 per cent would be applied, so the resulting grade would be 60 x 0.9 = 54. For more information on late submission visit: sheffield.ac.uk/ssid/exams/policies

Submitting your Assignment