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Assessment Brief
Module Level:
Module Code:
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EDU3066
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Applying Academic Conventions
Bob Fisher
Assessment Code:
Assessment Type:
AS1
Portfolio
Assessment
Deliverable(s) as
stated in the Module
Specification:
Task 3 – Annotated Bibliography
Weighting (%):
50%
Submission dates:
Feedback and Grades
due:
Please access the module NILE (Northampton Integrated
Learning Environment) site, and check submission dates under
the Assessment and submission item within the Course
Content section.
Please see the Assessment and submission section of the
module NILE site.
Please read the whole assessment brief before starting work on the Assessment Task.
Assessment Task Guidance Description
Learning Outcomes aligned to this assessment:
On successful completion of this assessment, you will be able to:
• Use academic conventions appropriate to business and effective for the purpose, topic,
situation and audience.
• Apply subject-specific language and genres appropriately and effectively for a range of
written and spoken contexts.
• Integrate references to literature effectively with own ideas within work.
• Convey complex information effectively in written/spoken English, which is accurate,
appropriate and informed by the disciplines related to Business.
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Task:
Rationale:
In other modules, when you are working on assignments for assessment, you will be asked to search for
and select sources/texts relevant to the topic you are considering. These texts will typically include
academic journal papers, articles from the financial press, chapters from textbooks and, perhaps, video
materials. If you go on to study as a postgraduate, this requirement to search for a diverse range of
sources to support your work will become even more important.
When searching for and selecting sources, it is important that you keep a record of your reading (or
viewing) to which you can refer as you develop your essay, report or dissertation etc. This record should
include not only the relevant references (e.g. title, author names etc.) but also summaries of individual
texts and your comments on the text (including evaluations and comments on how the texts links to other
sources).
This task aims to help you learn and demonstrate the skills necessary to produce such a record. You will
be asked to produce an annotated bibliography – a list of sources relevant to a particular topic, each
source appropriately annotated with a record of its contents.
Brief Requirements:
You will:
A. Search for and select six relevant texts on one of the following topics –
1. Analyse the impact of the Coronavirus Pandemic on Foreign Direct Investment (FDI)
2. How does FDI really affect developing countries?
3. Select a country of your choice and comment on that country’s inward FDI.
Your search for texts should be conducted through NELSON*. Different types of texts can be selected
but should include at least three articles from relevant academic journals. For each source you will
produce an appropriate and accurate bibliographic Harvard reference. You should also provide evidence
of your search for these sources, using – for example – NELSON or the Library Catalogue (e.g. a
screenshot of your search results), which indicate that you have conducted this research independently.
*Remember you can seek advice from the Subject Librarian on how to search for sources.
B. Write a summary of each text, indicating its relevance to the topic you have chosen. You should
indicate how the text relates or links to others you have selected and provide a brief analysis of
the value or usefulness of the text.
Word count
Your completed annotated bibliography should amount to a minimum of 900 words and a maximum of
1000. Thus, you should expect to write approximately 160 words on each of your chosen sources.
This final task for your portfolio is more demanding than the two previous tasks. Consequently, it is
weighted at 50% when calculating your final grade for the portfolio.
Drafts:
During the module, we will set interim deadlines by which you should:
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1. Provide a list of your selected texts with appropriate references.
2. Produce the annotations to two of your chosen sources.
We will provide you with feedback on the work that you produce after each of these deadlines. This should
help us to ensure that you are “on the right track”. We will not feedback on work submitted after the
deadline.
Use of Generative AI (Artificial Intelligence) within this assessment:
Some uses of Generative AI may deemed as unethical in your assessment. Further guidance on
the conditions for allowable use of Generative AI will be given by the module team.
Please access the following position guidance from University of Northampton on the use of
Generative AI within assessments.
Assessment Submission
To submit your work electronically, please go to the ‘Assessment and submission’ area on the
NILE site and use the relevant submission point to upload the assignment deliverable. The
deadline for this is 11.59pm (UK local time) on the date of submission. Please note that Essays
and text-based reports should be submitted as Microsoft Word documents (.doc or .docx), or
as guided within the assignment. Please access the following guide to submitting
assessments.
Written work submitted to Turnitin will be subject to anti-plagiarism detection software.
Turnitin checks student work for possible textual matches against internet available resources
and its own proprietary database. Please access the University of Northampton’s Plagiarism
Avoidance Course (UNPAC) to learn more.
When you upload your work correctly to Turnitin you will receive a receipt which is your
record and proof of submission. If your assessment is not submitted to Turnitin, rather than a
receipt, you will see a green banner at the top of the screen that denotes successful
submission.
N.B Work emailed directly to your tutor will not be marked.
Grading:
Your grade will depend on the extent to which you meet these learning outcomes in the way
relevant for this assessment. You will be assessed on your ability to successfully address
specified module learning outcomes, with marks allocated based on what is called a grading
rubric.
The rubric is a table which has different statements for how well each learning outcome has
been met, and is used as a standard benchmark so that all assignments are marked equally
against. Please see the grading rubric on NILE, or see the final page of this document for
further details of the criteria against which you will be assessed, presented in the grading
rubric.
Further Assessment Guidance:
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Please access the following document for more general information about the assessment
process, including anonymous marking, submissions, and where to find feedback and grades.
2023 UON Standard Assessment Guidance.
Marking Rubric
Learning
Outcomes
addressed
through this
assignment…
No
submissio
n / no
evidence
LO
Use academic
conventions
appropriate to
business and
effective for
the purpose,
topic, situation
and audience.
No attempt
to address
the
learning
outcome
Work of poor
quality which
fails to use
appropriate
academic
conventions
effectively.
Work of
Work of sound
satisfactory quality quality which
which makes some makes effective
attempt to use
use of
appropriate
appropriate
academic
academic
conventions
conventions.
effectively.
Work of high
quality which
uses a range of
academic
conventions
effectively and
flexibly.
Work of
outstanding
quality, which
uses a wide
range of
appropriate
academic
conventions to
an advanced
level.
No attempt to
LO
address the
Apply subjectlearning
specific
outcome
language and
genres
appropriately
and effectively
for a range of
written and
spoken
contexts.
Work which
shows little or
no awareness
or application
of businessrelated
academic
discourse.
Work
which
shows
some
awareness
of
business-related
academic
discourse
and
attempts to apply
this to written
work.
Work which
shows a good
level of
awareness of
businessrelated
academic
discourse and
applies this
successfully to
written work.
Work which
shows a high
level of
awareness of
businessrelated
academic
discourse and
applies this
effectively to
written work.
Work of
outstanding
quality, which
shows an
advanced level
of awareness of
businessrelated
academic
discourse and
applies this
confidently to
written work.
LO
No attempt
Integrate
to address
references to
the learning
literature
outcome
effectively with
own ideas
within work.
Work of poor
quality which
makes little or
no attempt to
integrate
citations in
written work.
Work of
Good quality
satisfactory quality work which
which makes some integrates
attempt to
citations
integrate citations effectively in
in written work,
written work.
albeit with
occasional errors.
High quality
work which
integrates
citations
confidently and
effectively in
written work.
Work of
outstanding
quality, which
demonstrates a
comprehensive
understanding of
citations and
applies this
rigorously to
written work.
4
Work
submitted is
of no
academic
value /
nothing
submitted.
Fail
Evidence
included or
provided but
missing some
very
important
aspects.
Pass
Of satisfactory
quality,
demonstrating
evidence of
achieving the
requirements of
the learning
outcomes.
Commende
d
Of sound
quality,
demonstrating
evidence which
is sufficient
and
appropriate to
the task or
activity.
Merit
Of high quality,
demonstrating
evidence which
is rigorous and
convincing,
appropriate to
the task or
activity.
Distinction
Of very high
quality,
demonstrating
evidence which
is strong,
robust and
consistent,
appropriate to
the task or
activity.
LO
No attempt
Convey
to address
complex
the learning
information
outcome
effectively in
written/spoken
English, which
is accurate,
appropriate
and informed
by the
disciplines
related to
Business.
Academic /
Professional
quality
5
Work of poor
Work of
Good quality
quality, which is satisfactory
work, which is
marked by
quality. Errors of
generally
frequent
language, style or accurate and
language errors register may occur, appropriate,
and/or serious although there is
both in terms of
issues of style
evidence of a
language and
and register.
willingness to act
register,
Little or no
on qualitative
although
attempt to act corrective
perhaps lacking
on qualitative
feedback,
in flexibility and
corrective
sophistication.
feedback
Unsatisfactory Poor command
Satisfactory
Sound command
command of
of academic /
command of
of academic /
academic /
professional
academic /
professional
professional
conventions
professional
conventions
conventions
appropriate to
conventions
sufficient and
appropriate to the discipline. appropriate to the appropriate to
the discipline.
discipline.
the discipline.
High quality
Work of
work, which is
outstanding
accurate and
quality, using
appropriate,
language which
demonstrating a is consistently
good range and accurate, flexible
flexibility of
and
expression, as
sophisticated,
well as a good
together with an
command of
authoritative
style and register command of
appropriate to
style and register
the genre.
appropriate to
the genre.
Rigorous
command of
academic /
professional
conventions
appropriate to
the discipline.
Authoritative
command of
academic /
professional
conventions
appropriate to
the discipline.
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