Describe what you are going to say in the essay, how you will say it and what you intend the reader to know from the essay.

write an outline of your essay
you have examined Crew Resource Management in detail and discussed videos pertaining to the subject. For this essay you need to talk about CRM in general and the different components (communiation, decision making, leadership etc ) and then go onto illustrate good and bad examples.

you looked at 2 videos where one demonstrated bad CRM leading to a fatal accident and good CRM where a crippled plane was brought home by a crew working well together. These can be the basis of your essay or you can use further examples that you find in the literature.

To start with you need to brainstorm the subject finding information and literature. This can come from articles that I have given you on your Blackboard pages, from the library search engine, from various flight webpages including :
www.Aviation-safety.net www.flightsafety.org http://www.skybrary.aero or academic literature from: www.googlescholar.com

Once you have gathered your material, look through it and save the most relevant. Then separate these into CRM in general, Good CRM and bad CRM. You should have examples of 2 or more literature articles for each point. Read through them and then write in your own words what the authors have said about CRM.

Your essay needs to be 2000 words long and contain the following.
Abstract
Introduction
Body of essay Discussion/Conclusion References using APA style
Abstract
Should be approximately 100-150 words in length and reflect the whole of the essay including the results. This should be written last after you know what you are saying in your essay.
An example of an abstract
Crew Resource Management is an emerging discipline in aviation and has helped to reduce accidents.
The purpose of this paper is to explore CRM in general and to discuss examples of good and bad CRM. For example Al Haynes and his crew in United Airlines 232 showed how a crew working together could land a badly crippled aircraft.
In contrast to that Eastern Airlines Flight 401 showed how distraction, lack of leadership, failed communication and other CRM failures contributed to the fatal crash of the aircraft into the Everglades.
This paper considers these accidents and others to demonstrate the importance of CRM in aviation and concludes with recommendations for the future
111 words
Introduction
Approx 100 words.
Describe what you are going to say in the essay, how you will say it and what you intend the reader to know from the essay.
For instance you would introduce CRM and the the accidents you are using as examples to demonstrate the subject.

Body of Essay
For this assignment I recommend you split it into 3 parts:
Part 1 – Describes the emergence of CRM. This can be fairly descriptive but you should be using some references from the literature to illustrate your points. This should be about 300 – 400 words.
Part 2 Give an example of an accident where good CRM has been demonstrated. Dont concnetrate too heavily on details of the accident but spend time analysing the CRM with references from the literature. About 500 – 600 words.
Part 3 – Give an example of an accident where bad CRM has been demonstrated and the resulting effects. Dont concnetrate too heavily on details of the accident but spend time analysing the CRM with references from the literature. About 500 – 600 words.
Discussion/Conclusion
Sum up what you have said in the essay and give your opinion at this stage of the importance of CRM. Add how you think CRM could evolve in the future and how it should be taught to all aviation staff. About 200 words.
Reference list
This should be on a separate (new) page to the rest of the document and each reference should be in alphabetical order. If you look on googlescholar.com you will find under each description a cite button. Second reference is APA style. Press this and it will give you the full reference in APA style for the article.
You may include a Bibliography which is in the same style as the reference list but contains articles or books you have read but not used within the article. This shows a wide range of reading.