Professional Communication Skills Assignment
Assessment type: Annotated Bibliography (Reference List) of 5 sources plus 500-800 words annotations.
Purpose: This assessment allows students to develop research skills and begin to develop critical analysis skills by finding and evaluating a range of different but relevant reference sources relating to a given topic. As a pairs assessment, students will also begin to develop teamwork skills.
Topic: Gender Equality / Diversity in Business.
Task Details: Annotated Bibliography (Reference List)
In academia, as in business, good reports demonstrate the ability to research and identify relevant material to be used as the basis for considering a question, supporting argument and arriving at justified conclusions or recommendations. While there may be many sources relating to any given topic or question, some will be far more suitable than others.
Good relevant supporting material (see Things to think about when evaluating your sources below) will be:
- Relevant
- Recent (unless considered a seminal or classic article/book)
- Credible
Using the topic given, pairs need to research and identify 5 different sources which would be relevant if preparing an analysis report for the topic given. Included in the bibliography should be:
- At least 1 peer reviewed article
- At least 1 website
- At least 1 magazine or newspaper article
- At least 1 of the sources reviewed must fail to meet the some or all of the 3 criteria of good supporting material - relevant, recent and credible i.e. be a source you have viewed but decided it would not be appropriate to use - explain why it is not appropriate.