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Assignment Brief Academic Year 2022-23 Assignment task This assignment will assess your understanding of business communication and the skills you have acquired during your study in relation to how this helps in the operation and management of a business. Your Summative Assessment will be an annotated presentation (1500 words in speaker notes) that allows you to demonstrate your communication skills based on contemporary challenges or issues faced by businesses. This assignment has been designed to provide you with an opportunity to demonstrate your achievement of the following module learning outcomes: LO 1 Define the essential components of effective communication; LO 2 Prepare an evidence-based presentation on a topic agreed in class; LO 3 Defend your presentation in a question-and-answer session; LO 4 Reflect on any feedback and how you could improve your next presentation. Task requirements OVERVIEW: Presentation,1500 words Following the assignment brief and guide, prepare an evidence-based business presentation on a contemporary business issue including an evidenced reflection on your personal development across the project. Module code and title: Business Communication Module leader: Dr Kabir Hossain Assignment No. and type: Presentation Slides (1500 words speaker notes) Assessment weighting: 100% Submission time and date: Monday 6 February 2023 before 23:59 Target feedback time and date: 3 weeks from the date of final submission http://uos.ac.uk/ Assignment Brief Academic Year 2022-23 DESCRIPTION OF THE TASK – WHAT YOU ARE BEING ASKED TO DO? Each student will be required to prepare and deliver a 10-minute PowerPoint presentation in class to peer students and tutors. The presentation development is divided into the following two tasks: Task 1: Conduct research and prepare 6 slides on one of the following topics (1000 words in notes): 1.1 Business communication during a global pandemic and the potential issues. 1.2 Communicating with employees about significant company changes. 1.3 Negotiating an international and cross-cultural IT business deal. 1.4 Ethical issues in business communication. Task 2: Reflecting upon your experiences from research for developing the PowerPoint presentation and the feedback from your formative submissions (or in-class activities), prepare 3 more slides covering the following three questions (3 slides with 500 words in the speaker's notes): a. Based on the formative submissions feedback / experiences during your research for developing PowerPoint presentation slides, what went well and why? b. What improvements need to be made and why? c. What action will you take to make suggested improvements? When getting ready to upload your work on Moodle, you must transfer your PowerPoint presentation to a Microsoft Word document along with the notes. In order to develop a fully evidenced based and referenced PowerPoint presentation you will need to undertake comprehensive research around your chosen topic. The presentation should make use of visual aids appropriate to the business context and audience of the topic. You will be asked to ‘defend’ your presentation in a Q&A session. In developing the presentation, you should think about: • your audience (based on the topic given) and appropriate modes of engaging them. • the language you use in the presentation. http://uos.ac.uk/ Assignment Brief Academic Year 2022-23 • clarity in language, speech, and visuals. • the level of detail you provide in visuals and in your notes. • time management (making sure you get through what you need to in the time provided). • what is missing in the work – it is often not possible to cover everything so you will have to choose what you leave out or only touch on; you might think about signalling this as something to come back to in the Q&A. • what kinds of questions you might be asked in the Q&A. Referencing and research requirements You must reference all information used in the presentation and the report, using the UoS Harvard Referencing Guide. You are required to include ONLY ONE reference list page at the end of the report arranged in alphabetical order irrespective of the sources and ONE Appendix page following the reference list page. You can access guidance to Harvard referencing here: https://libguides.uos.ac.uk/academic/referencing/Harvard How your work will be assessed Your work will be assessed on the extent to which it demonstrates your achievement of the stated learning outcomes for this assignment (see above) and against other key criteria, as defined in the University’s institutional grading descriptors. If it is appropriate to the format of your assignment and your subject area, a proportion of your marks will also depend upon your use of academic referencing conventions. This assignment will be marked according to the grading descriptors for Level 3 Submission details This assignment should be submitted electronically via Moodle (module tutors will discuss this process with you during class time). • Please ensure that your work has been saved in an appropriate file format (Microsoft Word, Excel or PowerPoint, or PDF are the most widely used; Google Docs is also accepted). Your file must http://uos.ac.uk/ https://libguides.uos.ac.uk/academic/referencing/Harvard Assignment Brief Academic Year 2022-23 also contain at least 20 words of text, consist of fewer than 400 pages and be less than 40MB in size. • You can submit your work as many times as you like before the submission date. If you do submit your work more than once, your earlier submission will be replaced by the most recent version. • Once you have submitted your work, you will receive a digital receipt as proof of submission, which will be sent to your forwarded e-mail address (provided you have set this up). Please keep this receipt for future reference, along with the original electronic copy of your assignment • You are reminded of the University’s regulations on academic misconduct, which can be viewed on the University website: https://www.uos.ac.uk/sites/default/files/Academic-Misconduct-Policy.pdf. In submitting your assignment, you are acknowledging that you have read and understood these regulations. Summative Submission Deadline date and time: Monday 6 February 2023 before 23:59 You should submit all work for summative assessments by the above deadline. Work submitted up to three working days after the deadline will be accepted and marked, but the mark will be capped at the pass mark (40%) unless there is a valid reason for the late submission (i.e. having been granted an extension to the deadline or a deferral under the terms of the Extenuating Circumstances Policy). Work submitted more than three working days after the deadline without a valid reason will not be accepted and will be recorded as 0% RN (refer, no work submitted). For more information, please refer to: http://studenthandbook.uos.ac.uk/index.php/studentguides/assessment-the-basics-undergraduate http://uos.ac.uk/ https://www.uos.ac.uk/sites/default/files/Academic-Misconduct-Policy.pdf Assignment Brief Academic Year 2022-23 MARKING CRITERIA Level 3 (Foundation Year) Provision at Level 3 (often forming part of a Foundation Year course) is designed to prepare students for higher education. At the end of Level 3, students will be expected to demonstrate the acquisition of foundation level skills, knowledge and understanding necessary to embark on a higher education programme of study at Level 4. In accordance with the national Qualifications and Credit Framework (QCF), this includes the ability to identify and use relevant understanding, methods and skills to complete tasks and address problems that, while well defined, have a measure of complexity. It includes taking responsibility for initiating and completing tasks and procedures as well as exercising autonomy and judgement within limited parameters. It also reflects awareness of different perspectives or approaches within an area of study or work. Assessment category Presentation Contents and Design 30% Reflection (Last 3 slides) 30% Evidence of Research 20% Effective Communication during Presentation 10% Defending Presentation in Q & A 10% 7 0 % – 1 0 0 % Insightful and accurate interpretation and evaluation of information and ideas. An excellent design of the ppt slides with application of the most appropriate skills, methods and procedures. Work Excellent reflection and evaluation of concepts or evidence, facilitating a highly logical, coherent, and balanced development of judgements or arguments. Strong awareness of the strengths and weakness of past experiences that Excellent application of theory to practice, with the student making highly appropriate, developed, and articulate links between the two. Excellent communication and evaluation of concepts or evidence, facilitating a highly logical, coherent, and balanced development of judgements or arguments. Strong awareness of other stances. Excellent defence with research-informed argument. Consistently accurate application of referencing. http://uos.ac.uk/ Assignment Brief Academic Year 2022-23 shows full awareness of the nature of the area of study and different perspectives or approaches within it provide a basis for the reflection. 6 0 % – 6 9 % Good interpretation and evaluation of information and ideas with a competent design of the ppt slides. Work shows sound awareness of the nature of the area of study and different perspectives or approaches within it. Good reflection, interpretation and evaluation of concepts or evidence, facilitating a logical, coherent, and balanced development of judgements or arguments. Good awareness of the strengths and weakness of past experiences that provide a basis for the reflection. Sound application of theory to practice, with the student making appropriate, well- developed, and articulated links between the two. Good communication, interpretation and evaluation of concepts or evidence, facilitating a logical, coherent, and balanced development of judgements or arguments that shows awareness of other stances. Good defence with research- informed argument. Sound application of referencing, with no inaccuracy’s inconsistencies. http://uos.ac.uk/ Assignment Brief Academic Year 2022-23 Level 3 Presentation Contents and Design 30% Reflection (Last 3 slides) 30% Evidence of Research 20% Effective Communication during Presentation 10% Defending Presentation in Q & A 10% P a s s m a rk 5 0 % – 5 9 % Adequate interpretation and evaluation of information and ideas with a fair design of the ppt slides. Work shows awareness of the nature of the area of study and an emerging awareness of different perspectives or approaches within it. Adequate reflection and evaluation of concepts or evidence, facilitating a largely logical, coherent, and balanced development of judgements. Good awareness of the strengths and weakness of past experiences that provide a basis for the reflection. Consistent and accurate application of theory to practice, with the student making appropriate links between the two. Adequate communication and evaluation of concepts or evidence, facilitating a largely logical, coherent, and balanced development of judgements or arguments. An emerging awareness of other stances. Adequate defence with research-informed argument. Referencing may show minor inaccuracies or inconsistencies. 4 0 % – 4 9 % A limited interpretation and evaluation of information and ideas with a satisfactory design of the ppt slides. Work shows emerging awareness of the nature of the area of study and different perspectives or approaches within it, although not always logical or coherent and with inaccuracies. A limited reflection and use of concepts or evidence, to support emerging judgement or arguments. Although not always logical or coherent and with inaccuracies. A limited awareness of the strengths and weakness of past experiences that provide a basis for the reflection. Relevant theoretical knowledge and understanding applied in practice, but with students not always making logical links between the two. Satisfactory communication. Limited use of concepts or evidence, to support emerging judgement or arguments. Although not always logical or coherent and with inaccuracies. Evidence of defence with limited research-informed argument. Referencing show inaccuracies and/or inconsistencies. http://uos.ac.uk/ Assignment Brief Academic Year 2022-23 M a rg in a l fa il 3 5 % – 3 9 % Weak and at times flawed interpretation and evaluation of information and ideas with a poor design of the ppt slides. Largely