COM 201 – Assignment – Trimester 1, 2013 Page 1 of 7 COM 201 Trimester 1, 2013 -Assignment (25% unit value) RESEARCH, SUMMARY & REFLECTION Due – WEEK 8 -Monday April 29, no later than 17:00 – PORTAL /ELECTRONIC COPY ONLY. Read the following instructions VERY carefully! The assignment has three main tasks and ALL three must be completed. Each COM 201 class will have a designated topic and resources. You will need to locate and use the specific journal articles only. The following topics are linked to each class: CLASS: TOPIC: Class 1 (Tuesday – Chris Notsis): Academic Reading and Writing Class 2 (Thursday – Marc Morgan): Time management in tertiary study Class 3 (Wednesday – Marc Morgan): Plagiarism and Referencing Class 30 (Geelong – Vivienne Harris): Motivation, goal-setting and tertiary study • You are NOT permitted to use a topic reserved for another class. Doing so will result in zero being given! • You will be provided with details about several articles for each topic, below. • You will need to locate these articles (via the Deakin Library Journal Article Databases) to use in the assignment task; no other sources can be used. • You will need to submit an individual assignment in on-line form only. Printed copies will not be accepted. Submissions will be made by a link provided in the COM 201 moodle – Week 8.
COM 201 – Assignment – Trimester 1, 2013 Page 2 of 7 ASSIGNMENT TASKS – all classes TASK 1 – Journal Article Searches (3+3 = 6 marks) 1. You must provide a ‘print screen’ copy of the catalogue view of each article, as shown in the Deakin Library catalogue (Total of 3), eg: 2. You must provide an IMAGE of each article’s FIRST page ONLY (total of 3), eg: An EXCELLENT, FREE screen capture programme can be downloaded from: http://easycapture.en.softonic.com/
COM 201 – Assignment – Trimester 1, 2013 Page 3 of 7 TASK 2 – Article Summaries (3×10 = 30 marks) For each article, write one summary (Total = 3 summaries). Do the following: 1. You must use the 3-move…