FINS5510 Personal Financial Planning
Personal Financial Planning
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FINS5510 Personal Financial Planning
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The purpose of this assessment is to build a sense of community as we learn about
Personal Financial Planning together. It involves posting a summary and some
practical applications from one article of your choice that relates to one of the Units of
the course under the 'Learning Community' section of the course website (note that
you do not need to post one article on each Unit of the course). An ‘article’ can be a
website article, news article, blog article, academic research article, book chapter,
video or audio podcast of your choice. However, there is a catch. You must post on an
article that no one else has posted on this term. In other words, there is a 'first-mover
advantage' with this assessment. You should select your article and post on it early
before someone else beats you to it.
The assessment involves three components:
1. Learning Community Post: Write a short post of up to 1,000 words (with no
leeway) under the ‘Learning Community’ section of the course website identifying
your article, explaining the main points of the article and identifying how you and/or
other participants of the course could practically apply those main points (more
details on page 7). You only need to make one post on one article for one Unit of
the course (you do not need to post one article for each Unit of the course).
2. Learning Community Details: Provide the details of both your selected article and
your post using the fields provided under the ‘Learning Community Details’ link in
the ‘Learning Community’ section of the course website. This allows me to create
a database of articles and easily check that the article that you have chosen is
unique.
3. Learning Community Report: Provide both a screenshot of your post and the text
of the post using the Microsoft Word template provided under the ‘Learning
Community’ section of the course website. You should then submit it using the
‘Learning Community Report’ link under the ‘Learning Community’ section of the
course website by the Learning Community Report due date (more details on the
format and content of this submission start on page 11). If you notice a typo in your
post, you are welcome to correct it in your final submission but any changes should
be minor.
Learning Community Assignment 3
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Your first post needs to be your ‘final post’. You cannot just post a short message “I
claim this article” and edit it at the end of the term to include some content. Any posts
found like this will be deleted.
For your Learning Community Report, you should use the Microsoft Word template
provided on the ‘Learning Community’ section of the course website. This includes a
table on page 1 that must be completed. The details in this table should be the same
as the ones provided under the ‘Learning Community Details’ link. Your final file should
be submitted in Microsoft Word format (not as a PDF).
Note that as a student at UNSW, you have access to the full suite of Microsoft Office
365 applications. More information about accessing this software is on page 16. Your
Learning Community Report should be submitted as a Microsoft Word file using Arial
or Helvetica fonts only.
To avoid the situation in which students just copy the articles used by other students,
you must choose a ‘unique’ article for which no posts have yet been made under the
relevant Unit of the ‘Learning Community’ section of the course website for this term.
In other words, once another student ‘claims’ an article for a particular Unit on the
course website, you can no longer use it. There is a ‘first-mover advantage’, so you
should claim your source by posting on it as soon as possible during the term. Note
that if the article is a book, you should base your post on only one chapter of that book.
Other students can still post on other chapters of the same book. There is more
information on this on page 7.
This is an individual assignment. Copying or paraphrasing the work of another student
in the current or previous term is academic misconduct and will result in a fail grade
being awarded for both this assessment and the course.
The Learning Community Assignment is worth 10% of your assessment for this course.
Note that some students may mistakenly believe that they need to post on one article
for each of the ten Units of the course. This is incorrect. You should only post on one
article for one Unit of the course.
If you have questions about the Learning Community Assignment, please post your
question under the ‘Learning Community Assignment’ thread in the General Forums. I
will only reply to emailed questions if the subject matter of the question is obviously
inappropriate for posting on the general forums because it relates to a personal or
confidential issue.