Assessment 1
Assessment Type Weighting Word Count Week Due
Review of Media
Stories 50% 2,200 words
5
Due Date for Completion:
Week: Sunday, Week 5 by 11:55pm (AEST/AEDT)*
Submission Instructions: Students should submit their assessment online.
*Australian Eastern Standard Time (AEST)/Australian Eastern Daylight Savings Time (AEDT). Check your time zone to ensure that you submit your assessment on time. If required, use a time zone converter.
Assessment Details
This assessment asks you to review 3 or more media articles (from digital and/ or hard copies of films/ TV shows/ news reports/ documentary/ YouTube sources) that have a global focus and deal with social issues. After summarising what the main issues were and how they were presented and discussed, reflect on the role of social work and social workers and what, if anything, the profession and its workers could do or did to help this situation.
Students should include the following information in their review of media stories (you can also set your own criteria):
1. What was the story about and where was it located?
2. How hard was it to find? Who is most likely to view/read it?
3. Who were the authors?
4. Who was the targeted audience?
5. What was the aim of doing/ presenting this story?
6. What is the assumed relationship between the subject(s), the presenter/writer, and the viewer/reader? Who has the power to represent, who is doing the gazing, at whom/what, and what are the implicit power issues?
7. What and who was missing from these accounts, what was left unsaid, and who was left unseen/unheard?
8. Who are the owners of the media outlets of the material researched (e.g. Murdoch or Fairfax press, an NGO, etc.).
9. What could/ did social work contribute to the issues?
Assessment 1 Criteria
1. Draws on ability to research material relevant to assessment requirements
2. Draws on ability to analyse material in a concise manner
3. Capacity to write and reference in an appropriately scholarly style, with attention to grammar, punctuation and spelling
4. Demonstrates ability to think and reflect on information gathered
5. Skills in research and reflection
6. Clarity of presentation; writing style direct and organisation
7. Referencing follows APA (7th edition) conventions as set out in academic guide
How to do well in Assessment 1
• Plan ahead and set the dates for gathering material in advance
• Research where you will most likely find material relevant to the assessment
• Decide how you will gather this material/ can anyone help in gathering material and information for your research?
• Keep focused on a particular medium and topic if that helps with keeping your focus clear
Alignment with learning outcomes: 1-3 & 6
Marking Criteria – Assessment 1 - Review of Media Stories
1. Ability to research material relevant to assessment requirements
2. Ability to analyse material in a concise manner
3. Capacity to write and reference in an appropriately scholarly style, with attention to grammar, punctuation and spelling
4. Demonstrates ability to think and reflect critically and globally on information gathered
5. Skills in research and reflection
6. Clarity of presentation; writing style direct and organisation
7. Referencing follows APA (7th edition) conventions as set out in academic guide
Total Mark: /50
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