RECENT ASSIGNMENT

Assessment 1. Individual oral presentation

Worth 10% 5 minutes Due Date: During tutorials


This assignment is to provide students with an opportunity to refine your oral presentation skills, and to help you to be able to summarise textual information.

Students will be assigned a tutorial in which to present this task.

Each student will be allocated one chapter from the text and will be required to present an oral summary (five minutes) during the tutorial.

The summary should include:

• A summary of the content
• Examples to show your understanding of the content
• Relate a relevant piece of recent news OR content from another text or journal article that shows a deeper understanding of one of the theories from the chapter.

If there are several students in the class, then more than one student will have to present on the same chapter individually. Your goal is to present for 5 minutes, if you speak for less than 4 or more than 6 minutes you will penalised by 1 mark. You presentation will be cut off by your tutor if you reach 7 minutes.

Please note: this assessment is an oral presentation only. Powerpoints are optional and no written paper is required.

Please see the assessment criteria sheet towards the end of this document to guide you through this task.