Assignment 1
Your assessment is to:
Create a landing page for a wiki about the topics of ‘self’ and ‘community’. Demonstrate your understanding of the principles of Catholic Social Thought (CST) in relation to ‘self’ and ‘community’.
What are you being assessed on?
Assessment No.1 is designed to assess the first intended learning outcome, namely:
1. Describe coherently in writing the principles of Catholic Social Thought (CST), and through a personal written commentary on each one, explain that the concepts of 'self' and 'community' are interrelated.
General Instructions:
• _Construct a landing page describing in writing, the 9 principles of Catholic Social Thought (CST) as outlined in the unit, and draw upon these principles to demonstrate the interrelationship between the concepts of 'self' and 'community'.
• _The landing page is to be between 1,000-1,200 words in length.
• _The page is to have a catchy title.
• _The page may have illustrations/artwork that relate to the content of your page. Try and make your page interesting and engaging for readers.
• _The page must refer to the extracted readings in the unit reading list for weeks 2-5. You may refer to other material you have read around the topic in order to gain a greater understanding of the topic but note that you are not required to read outside of the reading list in the unit in order to achieve a high distinction in this assessment task.
• _All material must be referenced by the use of endnotes (see the notes on the LEO) under UNCC100 for how to reference according to your discipline area). References do not count in the word limit.
• _Feel free to make the wiki as interesting and engaging as you can by using other modes of communication and external resources (e.g., blog posts, online articles, videos, animations, audio tracks etc) that help illustrate concepts described within your wiki topics.
• _This assessment will be worth 50 marks.
ELEMENT HD (85-100) Di (75-84) Cr (65-74) Pa (50-64) NN (0-49)
Content Part a)
(18 marks)
a) Describe the 9 Catholic Social Thought Principles
(2 marks per principle) Provides comprehensive understanding about the topic. Provides moderate understanding about the topic. Provides satisfactory understanding about the topic. Provides only minimal understanding about the topic. Provides no understanding about the topic.
Content Part b)
(18 marks)
Uses the CST principles provided to demonstrate the interrelationship between self and community Provides clear synthesis, comprehensive insight, and reflective thought about the topic. Provides moderate synthesis, insight, understanding, and reflective thought about the topic. Provides satisfactory synthesis, insight, understanding, and reflective thought about the topic. Provides only minimal synthesis, insight, understanding, and reflective thought about the topic. Provides no synthesis, insight, understanding, and reflective thought about the topic.
Style (2 marks) Presents all information in a style that is appealing and appropriate for the intended audience. Presents information in a style that is generally appropriate for the intended audience. Presents information in a satisfactory style sometimes appropriate for the intended audience. Presents information in a style that is often inappropriate for the intended audience. Presents information in a disjointed, unpolished style which is inappropriate for the intended audience.
Organization
(4 marks) Uses a consistent organizational structure that includes grouping related information and defines specialized vocabulary. Uses an organizational structure which groups some but not all related information and defines specialized vocabulary. Uses an organisational structure that satisfactorily groups some information and defines specialist language. Uses a loosely defined organizational structure which attempts to group similar items. Fails to provide a consistent organizational structure, and information is difficult to locate.
Citation (4 marks) Accurately cites all sources of information to support the credibility and authority of the information presented. Most sources are cited accurately, and support the credibility of the information presented. Some sources are cited accurately and satisfactorily support the credibility of the information presented. Few sources are cited accurately, and they fail to adequately support the credibility of the information presented. Does not provide any accurate information about sources used.
Writing Mechanics (4 marks) No errors in grammar, capitalization, punctuation, and spelling. Minor additional editing required for grammar, capitalization, punctuation, and spelling. Major additional editing required for grammar, capitalization, punctuation and spelling. Errors in grammar, capitalization, punctuation and spelling distract or impair readability. Numerous errors in grammar, capitalization, punctuation, and spelling repeatedly distract the reader and major revision is required.