Communication for IT Professionals: Assignment Sheet
Assessment
Research Report
Word Limit: 2,200 - 2,500 words.
Aims: To develop your skills in researching, critiquing, synthesising and organising information into a report, and in arguing and justifying a point of view derived from your research.
Task - In this assignment, you will:
• Conduct more extensive research on the issue or topic established in Assessment Task. The topic may be altered with the approval of the workshop lecturer or tutor. The topic should be based on your group's general topic area, but may be.
• Select a minimum of 6 journal articles, conference papers or books relevant to the issue or topic. (Website articles or blogs do not count towards this total but may still be used).
• Identify the main points that relate to your specific topic, position and argument.
• Organise, synthesise and critique the main points to develop an argument.
• Present your argument, fully justified, in an appropriate report format.
Structure of Draft Report:
Students will be required to bring to their workshop a hard copy of their draft report in order to obtain feedback from their lecturer or tutor and have it marked. It is expected that a draft report will be approximately 2000 words. This must include the following: the complete main points completely fleshed out in draft form, the Introduction and conclusion, the complete Reference List using Harvard Referencing. Your draft must be edited by all other group members - (use word with track changes, Adobe Reader annotation tools, pages on mac, or an equivalent editing system).