The document provides guidance on what to include for each part, such as giving examples for Part 1 and comparing/contrasting the articles for top marks in Part 2. It reminds students to

1. Getting Ready
to Write
Identify aspects of academic reading
and writing to personally focus on
developing
Application of skills to prepare a
piece of academic writing

2. Are you ready you are to write your assignment?

3. Assignment 1
• Part 1) 500 words.
• Describe the process of finding and selecting reading material with examples from your weekly
reading and summarising activities.
• You have had to choose one piece of reading from a choice of three for Part 2 of this
assignment. Why did you choose the one you are using?
• Part 2) 500 words.
• You have two short articles. What are the authors saying? Write a short summary of each. You
will all have to use article 1 but can choose from article 2, 3 and 4 as your second.
1 all use
OR OR
2 3 4
Your
essay

4. This assignment is designed to show that
you have fulfilled learning objectives 1
and 2 of the module:
• Find and evaluate information
• Present writing in an academic writing
style
So, this means that in Part 1 you have to show that
you know what type of information you should be
using, why certain types of information are better
than others, and how you find these better
sources. Give some examples of how you have
found specific articles.
For Part 2, you need to summarise the main
argument in each. For the very top marks, you
could consider how they compare and contrast.

5. This assignment is designed to show that
you have fulfilled learning objectives 1
and 2 of the module:
• Find and evaluate information
• Present writing in an academic writing
style
This also means that you
need to use an academic
writing style throughout.
For example, avoid using
‘I’, and use good
paragraph structures.
Finally, look back at previous week’s resources and
activities, and read through the grading criteria behind
the Assessment Guide on Canvas.

6. Now you have a chance to start
working on your assignment and
ask me any questions.
• Maybe review some work
rom the past weeks to make
sure you’re read to write
• Maybe start reading article 1
• Maybe start looking at the
three optional articles and
decide which you will use
• The choice is yours!

7. Online learning
Find a definition of critical analysis and
post it to a class discussion board
Identify targets met/not yet met to
complete Week 6 Activity:
‘How are you doing?’ in Quizzes
Homework
Work on your assignment