MA601 (Maritime Industry in the 21st Century): Literature Review

Module / Subject / School:

MA601: Maritime Industry in the 21st Century

MLA College

Requirements: 

Select seven contemporary references (i.e., from the last five years) to review. The references should address a specific topic of your choice within the scope of the social pillar of sustainable development in the maritime industry. To help you choose, consider topics such as mental health, fatigue, stress, diversity and inclusion, maritime education and training, attraction and retention, green jobs, green human resource management, or any other relevant social aspect. Please note that the selected topic should be discussed within the context of the maritime industry.

What we score:

72%

Our Writer’s Comment 

This assignment looks simple but is where many students lose easy marks. The biggest challenge is treating it like a summary instead of a literature review. Markers do not expect seven disconnected mini summaries.

Another common issue is weak source selection. Students often choose articles that are recent but not relevant to the maritime industry or the social pillar of sustainability. Others struggle to balance academic and industry sources, which is required but rarely done well. When structured properly, this assignment consistently scores well. Across past cohorts, our submissions typically fall between 72 and 80%.

General Tips to Improve Your Score for This Assignment

• Choose a narrow and defensible topic: Mental health, fatigue, or retention works best when clearly tied to seafarers or maritime organisations. Broad sustainability discussions usually score lower.
• Plan the structure before you write: Your review must clearly address background, methods, analysis, and future research. If these sections are blurred together, clarity suffers and marks drop.
• Compare the sources: Show where studies agree, where findings differ, and where evidence is weak. This is where critical analysis is assessed.
• Be precise with source types: You must include the exact mix required. Three academic journals, one trade source, one textbook section, one official website, and one additional academic source. Missing or misclassifying even one source affects marks.
• Use Harvard referencing accurately: Incorrect in-text citations and reference formatting are common and avoidable losses. This is an easy place to secure marks.

Need Us to Work on This Assignment?

We have been handling literature review assignments like this for many previous batches and know exactly how they are assessed.

• We select compliant and high-quality sources that meet every category
• We write tight narrative reviews with clear comparison among the studies
• We keep the focus firmly on the maritime industry and social sustainability
• We follow Harvard referencing precisely
• Our past submissions for this task consistently score above 70%

If you want a literature review that is critical and marker-aligned without wasted words, this is the type of assignment we handle every term.