31265 Communications for IT Professionals assignment 代写
Assignment Outline
31265 Communications for IT Professionals
This document contains details for assessments for Communications for IT Professionals (31265).
Please refer to the subject outline for important statements regarding: extensions and late
assignments, and academic misconduct.
Assignment Overview
There are four assignments in 31265 Communications for IT Professionals that are detailed below.
NO
Assignment Name Type Weight Due Date
1
Professional
Engagement with
Learning
dividual
In Class Exercises
10%
Assessed in week 2 -11
2
Information
Search &
Evaluation
Individual
Literature Review
1,200 - 1,500 words
20%
1.59pm Thursday
13 April 2017
3
Careers Project
Individual (Part 1)
&
Group (Part 2, 3)
30%
in
total
Part 1 & 2 due
26 May 2017 Online
Part 3 due in week 7 -11
During workshops
Part 1. Time Management Report
Individual
2%
11:59pm
Friday 26th May 2017
Part 2. Vodcast
Group
12%
11:59pm
Friday 26th May 2017
Part 3. Presentation
Group
16%
Assessed in week 7-11
During workshops
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Research Report
Individual
Draft in hard copy
Final Research Report
2,200 – 2,500 words
40%
In
total
raft due in week 12
During the workshop
Submit in hard copy
Final report due
9 June 2017 Online
Draft
3%
Due the workshop
in week 12
Time Management Report
2%
11:59 pm
Friday 9th June 2017
Report
35%
11:59 pm
Friday 9th June 2017
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Assignment 1 Sheet
Professional Engagement with Learning
Aims: This assessment task encourages students to become self-directed learners within
the university environment, to develop regular study habits, and to engage in effective
collaborative learning with their peers and lecturer or tutor.
Marks: 10%
Objectives: 1-5
Due Date: Weeks 1-11
Type: Exercises
Category: individual task
Task
Students participate by
• Answering and asking questions; discussing topics; and presenting, arguing and
justifying opinions in whole class and small group discussions.
• individual written homework activities.
• Undertaking online exercises such as questionnaires and discussion board
participation.
• Engaging in mini-presentations in their workshop.
• Undertaking individual and group writing tasks in the workshop.
• Supporting fellow students and contributing in a positive way to the learning of
the class as a whole.
• Constructively using lecturer and peer feedback to improve the quality of their
communication skills in class.
Marking Criteria
This mark is cumulative. From time to time the workshop tutor will assess the quality of th student’s participation on the class list using criteria and indicator marks similar to those
shown in the table. The indicators will be converted into a mark at the end of semester.
Assessment criteria
In-class participation in learning:
Quality of and engagement in presentation practice
Engaging in effective group exercises
Asking insightful questions and oral participation
Out-of-class participation in learning:
Quality of student’s homework and participation in
online exercises
Students should occasionally check the class list that their workshop lecturer or tutor holds
to see how they are going and try to participate more effectively based on feedback. If
necessary, students should discuss strategies with their lecturer or tutor as to how they can
improve their participation.
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Assignment 2 Sheet
Information Search & Evaluation
Aim: Assessment Task 2 aims to develop your skills in searching for and evaluating
information that will later form the basis of your Assessment Task 4.
Objectives: 1, 3, 4
Marks: 20%
Length: 1,200 – 1,500 words
Due Date: Week 5 - 11:59 pm Thursday 13 April 2017
Type: Literature Review
Category: Individual task
Submission: 1.Assignment Cover page:
Download from [UTS Online/Assessment/Assignment Materials]
Fill the page, sign and attach to the front of Assignment 2
2. Assignment 2:
Combine Assignment 2 with signed assignment cover page as a PDF file
Submit to [UTS Online/Assessment/Assignment dropbox/Dropbox A2:
Individual- Information Search & Evaluation]
3. Appendices:
Merge all articles you search into one single file
Submit to [UTS Online/Assessment/Assignment dropbox/Dropbox A2:
individual- Appendices]
Feedback: Assignments Feedback will be returned 2 weeks after submission in the
workshop.
Task - In this assignment, you will:
• Identify an IT issue or topic with ethical and/or social dimensions. (Your
workshop lecturer or tutor will assist you choose your topic).
• Formulate a short question about the topic by Week 3. Make sure the question
has two or more sides to it, and is not obvious. Discuss the question with your
tutor.
• Locate 4 articles relevant to the issue or topic and of a sufficiently high quality to
support an academic discussion. The articles will be listed in a bibliography using
Harvard Referencing style. You must source articles from at least 2 different
academic databases.
• Select 2 of the 4 articles you have located:
▪ Summarize the main points of each of the 2 articles in relation to the
Chosen issue or topic.
▪ Evaluate these 2 articles, by using Evaluation Table Template from [UTS
Online/Assessment/Assignment Materials/Assignment 2: Evaluation Table
Template] to assess their relevance to the chosen topic and their suitability
to support an academic discussion. The evaluation will be presented both in
paragraph form and in a table.
• In a final concluding paragraph, make sense of the sources you’ve selected and
their relevance to your topic: are reliable, what are their strengths, and what will
you use them to show.
• The assignment should be typed in an appropriate font with adequate margins and
should use 1.5 line spacing.
• Do not refer to articles as ‘article 1’ or ‘article 2’, but instead use Harvard UTS in-
text citation format as it is has been taught.
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Structure of Assessment 2 (Use section headings to structure the document)
1. INTRODUCTION
• Briefly identify the chosen issue or topic and define the
Particular ethical or social dimension of the topic that the
articles you have selected will address.
2. SUMMARY OF
ARTICLE 1
3. SUMMARY OF
ARTICLE 2
4. EVALUATION OF
ARTICLES 1 and 2
• Summarize the first article, focusing on t h e e t h i c a l and/or
social dimensions.
• State how the article relates to your issue or topic.
• Summarize the second article, focusing on the ethical and/or
social dimensions.
• State how the article relates to your issue or topic.
• In paragraph form evaluate Article 1 according to the key
criteria, referring to your evaluation table.
• Insert the evaluation table (see evaluation table template
online) following the paragraph in which the first reference to
the table occurs - e.g. after where you say something like ‘In
Table 1 we …’
• In paragraph form evaluate Article 2 according to the key
criteria, referring to your previous evaluation table.
5. BIBLIOGRAPHY
• List the 4 articles alphabetically by author’s surname
Using UTS Harvard Referencing style.
6. APPENDIX
• A copy of the 2 articles, which you summarized and
Evaluated, highlighted to show relevant sections used.
• The first page only of the other 2 articles.
Assessment 2 Marking Criteria
CONTENT
31265 Communications for IT Professionals assignment 代写
(12 marks)
Accurate summaries in relation to chosen topic
Complete and appropriate evaluations according to the key criteria
Appropriate selection of 4 articles from at least 2 different databases
STRUCTURE
(8 marks)
Correct English grammar and vocabulary
Good paragraph structure and organization of paragraphs
Correct placement of evaluation table, reference to the table in the text, and
succinct style of table contents
Appropriate academic style and expression
Correct assignment format
Correct Harvard UTS citation in text
Correct Harvard UTS Referencing in Bibliography
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Assignment 3 Sheet
Careers Project
Aim: This assessment aims to develop your oral and multimedia unication skills,
including those involved in team decision making, interviewing, communicating via a
vodcast, and making a live professional presentation and answering questions. You will
develop these skills in the context of a project, which will increase your awareness of the
different careers available to graduates in Information Technology and assist you in making
an informed choice of your area of specialization and your majors.
Marks: 30%
Length: Individual Time Management Report: 1 page
Group Vodcast: 5-10 minutes
Group Presentation: 20 minutes, plus 5 minutes for questions.
Due Date: Indivdual Time Management Report due 11:59 pm on 26 May 2017
Group Vodcast due 11:59 pm on 26 May 2017
Presentation assessed in workshops from week 7-11.
Type: Individual Time management Report, Group vodcast and Group Presentation
Category: Individual & Group task
Group Size: Maximum 4 students in one group
Submission: 1. Presentation & Release Form: 1 submission per group
Download Release form from [UTS online/Assignment Materials/
Assignment 3: Career Project Template/ Assignment 3: Release Form]
Get permission and ask your interviewee to sign on the form
Submit scanned Release Form to from [UTS online/Assignment
Dropbox/Dropbox A3: Group – Presentation & Release form]
2. Individual Time Management Report: 1 submission per student
Time Management Report to [UTS online/Assignment Dropbox/Dropbox
A3: Individual- Time management Report ]
3. Vodcast: 1 submission per group
Submit vodcast to‘[UTS online/Assignment Dropbox/Dropbox A3:
Group– Presentation & Release form]
Objectives: 1, 2, 5, 6
Feedback: Feedback will be returned 2 weeks after submission of all components.
Project Outline
You will work in teams to investigate an IT occupation, including interviewing a
professional working in the industry. Your team will research the career thoroughly
and then
anage and document your project, researching the career thoroughly
b) Make a presentation of your findings to the students in your workshop,
including a vodcast of our interview with an IT professional
c) Prepare a final version of your vodcast for sharing your information virtually
with all students across the subject, either in this or subsequent semesters
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Group Assignments and Moderation of Marks
All students will receive the same mark for this assignment unless at least half of the team
requests a Peer Assessment. Using Peer Assessment the mark of each membwill b weighted according to their individual contribution as assessed by their peers in the
team using the peer assessment form, and the tutor and subject co-ordinator. The Peer
Assessment form is in the Assignments folder on UTS Online and must be completed by
each student in any team experiencing problems and handed to your workshop lecturer or
tutor individually at the time of the presentation or vodcast upload. Additionally,
information provided in the time management reports submitted by each student will b user to determine appropriate weighting of results. The non-submission of a time
management report may be considered insufficient contribution should a peer aessment
situation arise, and may support the awarding of zero marks. Peer Assessment is
optional and should only be considered where other methods of solving group
problems have been exhausted. If you have trouble with the operation of your team, ask
your tutor for advice as soon as problems arise, a quick discussion can usually produce a
solution in the early stages, but it is much harder to solve when most of the semester
has passed. No complaints about team operation will be considered after both
components of the assignment have been completed.
Procedure
1. Team Formation and Career Selection
In your workshop in Week 4 you will form your working teams, select which IT career
you would like to research and choose the week you would prefer to present. In order to
make the career presentations more interesting and informative for your fellow classmates,
each team from your workshop must investigate a different care. If you know an IT
professional working in the industry, you are encouraged to interview them. By week
5 you must supply their name, organization, role and contact details to your workshop
tutor. If the interviewee is your parent or someone you know well, you are encouraged
to ask a group mate to run the interview. If you cannot find a professional to interview,
one will be contacted for you by the careers service. Since there are a limited number of
IT professionals available for interview and only 1 team will be able to interview each
professional, you may not receive your preferred career choice. It is your responsibility
to arrange the interview, after receiving the contact details of the interviewee.
2. Background Research
You will use a number of resources to undertake basic research into the career your team
is investigating, for example:
UTS Careers Service: www.ssu.uts.edu.au/careers
▪ IT Student and Graduate Profiles: http://www.uts.edu.au/future-
students/information-technology/it-student-and-graduate-profiles/it-student-
profiles
▪ Internet – websites for companies, research organisations, government
Departments
Specialist journals and magazines that have advertisements for jobs
▪ Newspaper and online job advertisements, past and present.
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3. Audio-visual Equipment
For recording the interview with the IT professional you may use one of several video
camera, microphone and lighting kits that the Faculty has purchased for your use. This
equipment may be booked by emailing FEITLPAdmin@uts.edu.au (maximum borrowing
period is 48 hours).
4. Interview
Once you have completed your background research and are confident in using the
audio-visual equipment, you will be in a position to finalisyour questions and organise
your interview with the IT professional. Remember that the person you are Contacting is
a busy professional who will not be impressed with you if you waste their time. There will
only be one opportunity for you to interview them and the interview will last about 20
minutes. So you must be well prepared, both in terms of what questions you intend to ask,
who will be asking questions and who will be recording the interview. You may wish to ask
questions about:
What the person does in the job
• Qualifications, experience, skills (including communication skills) and personal
attributes needed to obtain and hold a position in this area
• Where and in what type of companies graduates might find employment in this
career
What positives as well as challenges are associated with the career
• Particular ethical issues at are encountered. NOTE – do not ask the professional
what ethical issues they themselves have encountered – that is too specific and
may be asking the professional to divulge personal or confidential information!
Ask instead: ‘what type of ethical issues would be encountered by an IT
professional in this role?’.
Opportunities for career advancement
• Other issues of interest to you. Please write around a further 10 interesting
questions to ask during the interview. Some research on the role, thcompany and
the products or services they produce may help you to develop some interesting
questions to ask.
At the beginning of the interview, you must have the IT professional to sign the Release
Form (see the Assignments folder on UTS Online) granting permission for the recording of
the interview to be shown to students in this subject in your presentation and via vodcast
or audio slideshow on UTS Online.
Remember to organize a back-up if one of your recording devices should fail at . Make sure you are confident in using the recording equipment before th interview and check that the devices will be available at the time of your interview. If there
is no video or sound recording to support your presentation and form your vodcast you
will lose marks. Following the interview, you should contact the professional to thank
them for giving up their time for your assignment.
5. Presentation
You will present the findings of your project to your workshop, stimulate discussion about
the career and answer any questions from the audience. Each person within the group is
expected to contribute to the preparation and delivery equally. You must prepar presentation slides to support your presentation and also incorporate portions of the
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vodcast from your interview with the IT professional into the presentation to support it
and add to the interest of the presentation. Remember that you are being marked on you
presentation skills and not on your vodcast at this time. The selections from your vodcast
are to be no more than 5 minutes of the 20 minute presentation (about 1 minute per
person). Note: Zero (0) marks will be awarded for the presentation to any team whose
members read instead of present.
6. Vodcast
After giving your presentation, your team should continue to edit the vodcast footage, to
develop a standalone vodcast that will be submitted in Week 10. In Week 10 you should
upload the final version of your vodcast to thVodcast Dropbox on UTS Online (not to
YouTube or any other website). The file name should include 3 components: Name of
the career_Name of your workshop tutor_Family names of all your team members - eg.
:AnalystProgrammer_Jennifer_KinghornHo&Cruwys.
The vodcast or slideshow will be standalone, based on the recording of your interview with the
IT professional. If the IT professional is reluctant to be identified by name in the vodcast, you
must de-identify it. In order to maximise the impact of your interview recording, you will need
to edit it and add an introduction to say which career is being investigated, transitions showing
the aspects of the career you are discussing, and concluding credits. You do not neto include
all the information you delivered in your workshop presentation. Some useful media training
resources are at: http://ometra.wordpress.com. Also – you will need to compress the video file
to upload it to UTS Online. Please do not upload files larger than 250mb. Note: Zero (0) marks
will be awarded for any vodcast where the team cannot supply a Release Form duly signed by
IT professional who was interviewed. The Release Form must be scanned and uploaded to
the appropriate section of UTS Online.
7. Format of Time Management Report
Thtime management report should be created progressively as the time management syste.
(we currently recommend www.nirvanahq.com) Nirvanahq is used over the course of th semester. The time management report will be a printout of the final state of the time
management system. Students may substitute their own time management system if they wish,
but their time management documentation must still satisfy the assessment criteria. Note that
beginning the time management report after the assignment is complete is not acceptable.
Writing the report in a Word Processor cannot satisfy the assessment criteria, so submissions
written in word documents will attract 0 marks for this section. Also, as mentioned above, the
time management report may be used when a group requests peer assessment.
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Assessment 3 Marking Criteria
TIME MANAGEMENT Report (1 per team member) :
TIME
MANAGEMENT
(2/30)
Documented evidence of advance planning and completion of tasks
Documented breakdown of team project into individual systematically
categorized tasks for each individual student, and awareness of need to be
able to work separately
Presentation:
CONTENT
(8/30)
Accurate and sufficiently detailed description of the career, required
qualifications, etc.
Awareness of ethical issues encountered in this job
Account of the day-to-day reality of the job
PRESENTATIO N
SKILLS (8/30)
Well-organized presentation with appropriate introduction and conclusion
Clear spoken expression of ideas and appropriate style
Effective use of movement and gesture
Visually appealing and effective presentation slides including visually
organized information
Effective use of a ‘hook’ of some type to assist listeners to comprehend and
remember the presented information
Effective incorporation of vodcast to support presentation
Ability to answer questions and appropriate leading of group discussion
Vodcast or Audio Slideshow:
CONTENT
(6/30)
Communicates significant or interesting information about the career
Portrays the day-to-day reality of the job and the work context in which the
IT professional operates (max. 10 minutes)
AUDIOVISUAL
SKILLS
(6/30)
A self-sufficient, standalone vodcast (including intro, outro, titles and
subtitles, transitions, etc.)
Creativity in production and content
Production values (e.g., sound, lighting, camera angles, framing, etc.)
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Assignment 4 Sheet
Research Report
Aims: To develop your skills in researching, critiquing, synthesising and organising
information into a report and in arguing and justifying a point of view derived from your
research.
Objectives: 1-6
Marks: 40%
Length: 2,200 – 2,500 words
Due Date: Draft eport is due in class in Week 12.
Final Research Report due 11:59 pm Friday 9 June 2017
Individual Time Management Diary due 11:59 pm Friday 9 June 2017
Type: Formal Research Report
Category: Individual task
Submission: 1. Draft Reporof Assignment 4:
Bring draft report to week 12 workshop to be marked.
2. Assignment Cover page:
Download from [UTS Online/Assessment/Assignment Materials]
Fill the page, sign and attach to the front of Assignment 4
3. Final Report of Assignment 4:
Combine Assignment 4 with signed assignment cover page as a PDF file
Submit to [UTS Online/Assessment/Assignment dropbox/Dropbox A4:
Individual- Research Report]
4. Individual Time Management Diary
Submit to [UTS Online/Assessment/Assignment dropbox/Dropbox A4:
Individual- Time Management Diary]
Feedback: Assignments will be returned 3 weeks after submission of all elements.
Task — in this assignment, you will:
• Conduct more extensive research on the issue or topic established in Assessment
Task 2. The topic may be altered with the approval of the workshop lecturer or
tutor, but It’s best not to alter it to a different topic completely.
• Select a minimum of 6 journal articles, conference papers or books relevant to
the issue or topic. (Website articles or blogs do not count towards this total but
may still bused).
• Identify the main points that relate to your specific topic, position and argument.
• Organise, synthesise and critique the main points to develop an argument.
• Present your argument, fully justified, in an appropriate report format.
Note:
• can used the articles you have used in Assignment 2
• You should not copy any text from Assignment 2 into Assignment 4.
Structure of Draft Report:
In Week 12 students will be required to bring to their workshop a hard copy of their
draft report in order to obtain feedback from their lecturer or tutor and have it marked. It
is expected that a draft report will be approximately 2000 words. This musinclude
following: the complete main points completely fleshed out in draft form, the
Introduction and conclusion, the complete Reference List using Harvard Referencing.
Your draft must be edited by all other group members - (use word with track changes,
Adobe Reader annotation tools, and pages on mac, or an equivalent editing system).
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Format of Time Management Report
The time management report should be automatically created as the time management
system is used over the course of the semester as per instruction in class. Th report therefore will be a printout of the evidence of the usage of the time
management system. Students may substitute the recommended time management
system for their own system if they wish, but their documentation of their must still satisfy the assessment criteria. Note that, writing a time
management report in a Word Processor cannot satisfy the assessment criteria, so
submissions written in word documents will attract 0 marks for this section.
Structure of Final Research Report
A signed and scanned cover sheet for each student must be attached. The assignment
should be typed with 1.5 spacing and should follow this outline:
TITLE PAGE EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
Briefly summarize the main conclusions of the report.
INTRODUCTION
Give background to the chosen issue or topic; set parameters or scope of topic; describe
your approach; establish your own focus and point of view (your position); briefly
indicate the organization of the report.
SYNTHESIS OF SELECTED TEXTS (Replace this heading with heading/s more suitable to your topic) Synthesize
the relevant information around 2-5 main points (probably 3). Organize these points in logical paragraphs that develop your ethical argument. Draw on at least 6 sources to
support and justify your argument.
Incorporates 1 visual presentation you’ve created from data obtained from articles or
surveys
CONCLUSION
Summarize your argument and give main conclusions.
REFERENCE LIST
List the articles or books you cite in your report, arranged alphabetically by author’s
surname using Harvard UTS Referencing style. Note - none of these references should be
a single URL.
APPENDIX
A copy of either the first page, or the entirety of each article you cite (or the title and
reverse title page of any book cited), highlighted to show the source.
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Assessment 4 Marking Criteria (40% weighting)
TIME
MANAGEMENT
DIARY (2/40)
Evidence of advance planning and completion of tasks
Documented breakdown of assignment project into individual
systematically categorized tasks
DRAFT (3/40
marks)
Evidence of planning and drafting
Evidence of group member editing and proof-reading
Reference list in correct Harvard UTS format
CONTENT
Complete, succinct executive summary
Clear introduction and conclusion, content organisation supports
Selection of appropriate texts and evidence of wide reading
Awareness of ethical theories and application to ethical question
Main points formed from synthesis of evidence
Quality, elegance and relevance of data visualisation
Correct English grammar and vocabulary
Elegance of paragraph structure
Cohesion of text (organization of paragraphs & sections headings, etc.)
Appropriate academic style and expression
Correct Harvard UTS citation in text
Reference list in correct Harvard UTS format
31265 Communications for IT Professionals assignment 代写
