EFFECTIVE BUSINESS COMMUNICATION ASSIGNMENT -

Assessment - Reflective Practice Essay: Developing your Communication Competency

Task Description: The objective of this reflective essay is to summarize what you learned from the unit and how you believe your learnings could be applied by you in your future career goals. Reflective essays are written in first person.

Sections: Section one: For weeks one to ten you should identify one important or significant concept that you have learned about. You should define the concept and then explain why it is important to you in your current line of work. It is not enough to simply say that the concept is important, you will need to explain why.

Section two: Based on your discussion of the ten significant concepts you should provide a literature review of one of the concepts. So for example, if you found that listening was an important communication concept then you should provide a literature review on the current academic understanding of the importance of listening within the work environment.

Section three: Lastly, you will need to discuss how two of the ten concepts could be important to your future career aspirations. Here you will need to identify where you wish to be in 5 years' time, and then discuss how you think these concepts/skills will help you meet your career goal. It is important that you are specific as possible.

Outline of essay: Your essay should follow the following structure:

1. Introduction

a. Opening statement that introduces the topic starting with "this essay"

b. Background information that introduces the context, significance and the purpose of the essay

c. Preview of the structure of the essay

d. Thesis

e. Transition to section one

2. Section one-identify and explain the importance of one weekly concept in terms of your work activities.

3. Section two-Literature review of only one of the concepts identified in section one. Literature review must compare and contrast between different authors with "xyz author supports this by", 'xyz' author argues that.. 'xyz' author puts a point, 'xyz' author puts a note.. and so on.

4. Section three-Application of two of the concepts for future career aspirations.

5. Conclusion

a. Synopsis of the areas discussed in the essay

b. Restatement of the thesis statement

c. Capstone statement that signals that the essay has ended.

6. References (APA reference style) - Minimum 14 references of academic resources.