This assessment requires you to provide a reflective review for each of the 4 topics that you studied in this course.
This assignment help will assist you to write a reflective review and to find academic references to support your report.
Please see your course outline and course site for full assessment details.
If you're not familiar with reflective writing as an assignment task, this video and the resources below it may assist you in understanding what is required.
For more on reflective writing you can also search the library collection.
Before you start searching you should:
Using a mindmap or table can help you brainstorm and organise the concepts and ideas you may want to explore in your searching.
Here is an example table:
Concept | Synonyms or alternative concepts |
manufacturing organisation service firm |
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online business |
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operations strategy |
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design of products and services |
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making products and delivering services |
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This table is not comprehensive. Once you start searching you may come across more keywords.
To learn more about planning your search please look at the below resources
You have been asked to use at least ONE academic reference. |
Academic sources can be referred to scholarly sources or peer-reviewed (refereed). These can include journal articles, books, book chapters, reports and other sources.
To find out more about academic sources look at the resources below:
Tip: When searching in the library catalogue you can filter your results to show only 'peer reviewed'.
The Library Collection can be a useful starting point in locating academic references. To do a search, try using
double quotes for phrases
truncation* to find the plural and other forms of a word
An example search in the library collection
At the results list you can:
Refine search to Peer Reviewed for academic references
Refine by Date eg 2017 to 2022
See the full text for many items by selecting the title, then look for the Online link
Try Google Scholar to find scholarly material. An advantage of Google Scholar is that it provides access to the full text of many UniSA scholarly/academic articles if you connect to it via the link above, or from the Library home page
The Advanced search option gives more flexibility when you search (note you will have to click on the hamburger menu
then select Advanced search).
Business Source Ultimate is the world's definitive scholarly business database, providing the leading collection of bibliographic and full-text content.
Try searching using different variations of your concepts and keywords until you find relevant results.
See below for an example of a search:
Emerald: insight is an excellent source of management and business information. All content in Emerald is peer-reviewed.
use the advanced search option
narrow your search by date range
See below for an example search:
Referencing Roadmap (Harvard)
Help with the Harvard UniSA referencing style. Find in text-citations and reference examples, from different sources such as articles, books & chapters, websites, and more.
What do you do with all those references you have found?
Use a bibliographic management software to store, organise and cite your references. The Library supports the bibliographic management tool EndNote. There are also many free systems available.