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Quizzes and self-assessment tests help reinforce the learning objectives
associated with the case study.

7: Teaching Guide

The teaching guide is the pointy end of the case study. It is the element
that pierces the heart of the problem and provides the cutting edge of
applied analysis.

But, on reflection case study analysis has a number of inbuilt advantages
over questions set on interpretation of a piece of theory. To start with cases
do not have a long shelf life, probably only five years or so. Students
demand that lecturers be up to date in the companies they examine. For
the lecturer a current up-to-date case study has the advantage that a
general solution to it is highly unlikely to be floating about on the web.

Moreover the case study from issue to the student to the hand-in day may
only be three weeks or so. This helps to reduce the paid for solution
providers ability to generate a progressive specified degree of pass.

The implication is that the person who writes the paid for answer must of
necessity read and understand the individual case study and it's
contextualisation. True, some aspects of case analysis remain the same
e.g. the development and use of a timeline. But, even here if the timeline is
not provided in the case study itself then at some stage in the analysis it
has to be built in order to help explain the sequence of events, how critical
they are and what linkages are applicable.

For the paid for solution writer this work is not simply the application of
learned theory but rather the application of applied theory.

Contract cheating provides students with original work which will not be
detected as plagiarism when using “text matching tools” such as Turnitin.

Course fees cost in excess of £9,000 per year. But how can the less
affluent student compete with those who can afford up to £4,500 per
assignment?