Park University Major League Baseball & Risk of Monopoly Research

I’m working on a business law report and need support to help me study.

The topic I picked for the research paper is

MLB

Topics

1. Business Ethics: Legal and ethical issues concerning sport franchises or sports agents (Try googling the Sports Agent Responsibility and Trust Act to start)
2. Discuss Major League Baseball’s exclusion from anti-trust law.
3. Criminal Law: Anti-trust law violations

Each topic needs a reference with it.

Please post your paper by midnight on Sunday of Unit 6 (central time). Thanks! For your convenience, I have posted the Grading Rubric for the Paper here for you.

Grading Rubric for the Paper

Timeline:

1. The Paper Topic is due in Unit 2. Please post it in class in the Unit 2: Paper Topic discussion. A list of approved topics will be provided there. I will email you if I see a problem with your topic.
2. The Paper is due in Unit 6. Specifically, the paper is due by midnight of the Sunday of Unit 6 in the Central Time Zone. Please submit the paper via an attachment in Rich Text Format or as a Word document. Please check your paper for viruses before you send it.

Requirements:

• What am I looking for in a paper? I will grade based on content, organization, readability, and grammatical correctness.
  • Content includes your ideas as well as your research. Clear thesis statement. (This is not a book report).
  • Organization includes external transitions (section to section) and internal transitions (paragraph to paragraph and sentence to sentence).
  • Readability means how well the paper flows. Avoid wordiness and the passive voice. Don’t start your sentences with “it is” or “there are.”
  • Grammatical correctness includes spelling and other grammar errors including subject-verb agreement.

Point Distribution: Your grade will be reported to you in the number of points you earned. To figure out your letter grade, take the number of points and divide it by 200. For example, 180 points divided by 200 = .9 which is an A.

Late policy: If work is due at midnight, then 12:01 is late. Late work will receive no higher than a C for 1 day late, no higher than 50% for 2 days late, and a 0 for anything after 2 days.

Guidelines and Tips

· After you write your paper, read each word out loud. You will find most of your errors.

· Don’t forget Park’s writing lab as a resource.

· Edit your finished draft at least twice (once for organization and once for grammar mistakes).

· What is APA style? For writing tips and information on the APA style, try the Writing Resources category in the Webliography or https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/560/01/ (Links to an external site.)

· Wikipedia is not a reliable resource and cannot be quoted or used as a source in any Business Law papers. Why? Basically, anyone can add to wikipedia. That makes it unreliable. To get around this, you can go to sources cited by authors in wikipedia, check to see if the material cited is there, and cite the original source.

· When and how do I turn in this paper? The paper is due by midnight of the Sunday of Unit 6 in the Central Time Zone. Submit your paper via an attachment in Rich Text Format or as a Word document. Please check your paper for viruses before you send it. Note: Keep electronic file copies of all materials submitted until you receive your grade in this class.

· Although it can be longer, the paper must be at least four full pages not counting the title page, abstract and references. Paper must include a title page, abstract, body and reference page in APA style and have proper citation.

Special Attention Please:

· Your paper must be original work—not work already submitted in another class. Doing so will result in a grade of 0 for the paper. You have to do a new paper on a new topic in this class.

· Do not plagiarize (copying or using the work of others without giving them credit). Use parenthetical references (APA style) within your paper to document all quotations, minor details (for example, statistics), and opinions that are not yours. However, do not document your own opinions. In the past, several students have copied their entire papers from the Internet. These students received a 0 on the assignment and were reported to the administration.

Any paper submitted without a reference section will receive a grade of zero.

Please visit the rubric under Assignments and Grading in the Course Information Module for more directions on the Research Paper.

Due Date

Submit the research paper by 11:59 pm., Sunday CT.