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ACAD001 ACADEMIC COMMUNICATION
Semester 1
Assessment Item Name READING
Assessment item description
A description of the assessment item is as follows:
In this assessment, you will read texts, annotate texts, watch a video and then answer
questions.
Subject learning outcomes (SLOs) & Language learning outcomes (LLOs)
On successful completion of this assessment item, students should achieve the following outcomes:
SLO1i:
LLOs
SLO3i:
LLO
purposefully select, and critically evaluate meaning-making in, a range of relevant texts
1. identify and explain opinions, main points and supporting information
2. evaluate texts for quality, logic, reliability, relevance
3. make inferences, identify and explain bias, irony and/or digressions
4. identify and explain logical relations
5. locate, select, and evaluate texts relevant to research needs
6. make notes
systematically apply academic conventions to maintain academic integrity
1. apply APA 7th edition style referencing conventions
Assessment item brief
For this assessment item you are required to do the following:
Read the text that your teacher has provided.
Select a video (YouTube/Ted Talk) and another reading (UTS Library) which relate to, but may not necessarily have the same
perspective on, the same topic as the reading provided by your teacher.
Complete the following tasks either by writing in the provided spaces or by recording yourself saying the answers as a video
with PowerPoint slides (each slide should have one task which you talk to).
Annotate the text that your teacher has provided.
Upload this document in addition to the annotated reading.
ASSESSMENT ITEM BRIEF
Assessment item submission requirements
For this assessment item you are required to submit the following:
You can choose to do this in one of two ways:
Option A Option B
Answer all the questions / complete all the tasks in
writing by filling in the table.
Answer all the questions / complete all the tasks in
a video recording (with each question on its own
PowerPoint slide).
You need to submit:
1. Option A: completed question table
or
Option B: video recording
2. Annotated text (see examples below). The text is provided by your teacher
3.
Examples of annotated text
The tasks are related primarily to the scholarly article that has been provided by your teacher, unless stated otherwise.
All tasks marked with an asterisk (*) require you to make notes on the PDF of the reading provided by your teacher. That
is, highlight key words and sentences and then make a note.
Begin each note by naming what task it refers to (e.g. for 2*, you will start your note with ‘technical vocabulary:’).
Note:
Your writing or speaking skills are not graded in this assessment. However, your teacher must be able to understand your
meaning.