KKB180 Creative Futures
Assessment 1 – Creative Industries Research and Analysis
Task overview
Assessment name Creative Industries Research and Analysis
Description
Due Date
Length
You will research, analyse and report on creative industries sectors, disciplines and
occupations of interest in terms of significance, future trends, career opportunities
and challenges.
Due Sunday 14th April 2024 11.59 PM
1200 words (excluding discussion board contributions and reference list)
Weighting 40%
Individual or Group Individual
Learning outcomes
measured
1. Research, investigate and analyse trends and emerging opportunities in creative
sectors, disciplines, and occupations.
2. Identify and characterise ways that creative practitioners add value through
interdisciplinary, socially networked, entrepreneurial creative practice.
3. Locate, evaluate and synthesise information from a variety of sources into written
communication.
4. Write and create for specific academic and creative industry applications taking
into account audience, purpose and context.
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KKB180 Assessment 1
Task Instructions
What you need to do There are two parts to this assignment:
1. An essay of 1200 words (+/- 10%), submitted through the KKB180
Creative Futures Canvas page
2. An appendix to the short essay, which provides screenshots of three posts in
KKB180 Creative Futures discussion board in Week 2-Week 6 that best
reflect critical analysis and/or engagement with other students in
developing and deepening critical analysis.
Part 1 – Essay
In your essay you will critically analyse and evaluate a technological trend, or
technological trend/s, impacting the creative industries.
Inspired by your reading in the module areas in KKB180 Creative Futures in Week 2-6,
you will undertake independent research to develop your analysis and evaluations of
technological trend/s and their impact on the creative industries.
When analysing and evaluating your trend/s, you must identify:
- The technological trend/trend(s)
- The opportunities and benefits for future creative industry professionals
- The risks for future creative industry professionals
- Any other significant implications for the future of work in the creative
industries
Your essay should have an introduction, a body and a conclusion, a reference list in
the style of APA and an appendix that includes screenshots of three discussion board
contributions. The following is a suggested guide to writing your essay.
Introduction (approx. 150 words)
- Introduce the technological trend/s and the sectors of the creative industries
you have chosen to analyse and evaluate in the essay
- Provide a brief overview of what you cover in the essay: e.g. opportunities,
benefits, risks and other expected impacts
Body (approx. 900 words)
- This section of your essay should provide a detailed account of your research
and evaluation of the trend/s you researched for the essay
- You should have a minimum of 3 paragraphs that cover your analysis and
evaluation of the 1. Opportunities and benefits, 2. Risks, and 3. other
implications for future creative professionals and work in the creative
industries
- You should refer to academic literature, industry and government
literature, and specific creative industries practitioners and practices
Conclusion (approx. 150 words)
- Your conclusion should provide a short summary of your analysis with an
emphasis on your final evaluation of the trend/s.
Reference list (no word limit)
- You must cite academic and industry research that supports your claims.
- This should contain a minimum of five sources which include a minimum of
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three formal sources.
- It is strongly encouraged that you use both course readings and undertake
additional research beyond the course materials.
- You must use APA references to cite all sources
Appendix
- You will include three screenshots which show the three discussion posts
that best display critical analysis, and/or engagement with other
students in KKB180 Creative Futures in developing and deepening critical
analysis.
Part 2 – Discussion Posts
From Week 2-6 (inclusive), you will contribute to the KKB180 discussion board. Your
posts will be made in response to a discussion question provided in online Learning
Modules 2-6 (inclusive), and your response must include ‘critical analysis,’ as defined
in Module 1, rather than just description of trends in creative industries. You can
instigate a thread or post a response to another student’s contribution or both.
Your contributions to the KKB180 Creative Futures discussion board, and research,
analysis, and evaluation of issues via the discussion board, will be a working basis to
identify technological trend/trend(s) you will focus on in your KKB180 Creative
Future(s) essay.

As an appendix to your KKB180 Creative Futures essay, you are required to include
screenshots of three posts to in KKB180 Creative Futures discussion board in Week 2-
Week 6 that best reflect critical analysis and/or engagement with other students in
developing and deepening critical analysis.
You must cite all sources according to the guidelines set out in QUT Cite | Write.
Submission Information
What you need to do
Moderation
before marks or grades are finalised. Refer to MOPP C/5.1.7.
already submitted. I/We understand that this work may be submitted for plagiarism
check and consent to this taking place.
See the detailed A1 Criteria Sheet in Canvas.
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Academic Integrity
As a student of the QUT academic community, you are asked to uphold the principles of academic integrity during your
course of study. QUT sets expectations and responsibilities of students specifically stating that students “adopt an ethical
approach to academic work and assessment in accordance with this policy and the Student Code of Conduct
(E/2.1)". Students need to be aware that academic integrity refers to text and non-text sources, i.e. "copying or
adapting non-text based material created by others, such as diagrams, designs, musical score, audio-visual materials, art
work, plans, code or photographs without appropriate acknowledgement" (MOPP C/5.3.6 Academic Integrity). It also
includes self-plagiarism, this “involves the re-use by a student of their own work without appropriate acknowledgement
of the source. Students should seek express consent from the unit coordinator prior to re-using their own work in an
assessment submission" (MOPP C/5.3.6 Academic Integrity).
Students are expected to demonstrate their own understanding and thinking using ideas provided by ‘others’ to support
and inform their work, always acknowledging the source. While we encourage peer learning, it is not appropriate to
share assignments with other students unless your assessment piece has been stated as being a group assignment. If
you do share your assignment with another student, and they copy all or part of your assignment for their submission,
this is considered collusion and you may be reported for academic misconduct. If you are unsure and need more
information http://www.mopp.qut.edu.au/C/C_05_03.jsp#C_05_03.03.mdoc.