RECENT ASSIGNMENT

Assessment 2
Information Search & Evaluation
Marks: 20%
Length: 1,200 – 1,500 words

Individual Assignment, no group work.
Submission: Submit Report & attached Cover Sheet to ‘A2: InformationSearch & Evaluation’ as PDF, and submit Appendices as PDF to ‘A2: Appendices’ in UTS Online Assignments. Join Pdfs to make a single PDF where necessary.
Objectives: Assesses objectives 1, 3, 4
Feedback: Assignments will be returned 2 weeks after submission, in the next workshop that students attend (which may be after vice chancellor’s week).
Aim: Assessment 2 aims to develop your skills in searching for and evaluating information that will later form the basis of your Assessment 4.
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).
?Post a short question about the topic on UTS Online by Week 3. Make sure the question has two or more sides to it, and is not obvious.
?Locate 4 articles relevant to the issue or topic and of a su?ciently high quality to support an academic discussion. The articles will be presented in a Bibliography using Harvard Referencing style. You must source articles from at least 2 di?erent 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 the 2 articles, according to key criteria (relevance, reliability, accuracy, bias, completeness and timeliness) 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 ?nal concluding paragraph, try and make sense of the sources you’ve selected and their relevance to your topic: are they worth relying on, what are their strengths, and what will you use them to show.
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31265 – Communication for IT Professionals: Assignment Sheet
Structure of Assessment 2 (Use section headings to structure the document):
1. INTRODUCTION ? Brie?y identify the chosen issue or topic and de?ne the
particular ethical or social dimension of the topic that
the articles you have selected will address.
2. SUMMARY OF ? Summarize the ?rst article, focusing on the ethical and/
ARTICLE 1 or social dimensions.
? State how the article relates to your issue or topic.
3. SUMMARY OF ? Summarize the second article, focusing on the ethical
ARTICLE 2 and/or social dimensions.
? State how the article relates to your issue or topic.
4. EVALUATION OF ? In paragraph form evaluate Article 1 according to the
ARTICLES 1 and 2 key criteria, referring to your evaluation table.
? Insert the evaluation table (see evaluation table
template online) following the paragraph in which the
?rst 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 Harvard UTS Referencing style.
6. APPENDIX ? A copy of the 2 articles which you summarized and
evaluated, highlighted to show relevant sections used.
? The ?rst page only of the other 2 articles.
•Attach a signed and scanned cover sheet to the report document, which can be obtained at UTSOnline Assignments.
•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