Understanding the Media: Assessment
ASSESSMENT TIMELINE
WEEKS 6-12
WEEK ASSESSMENT 3 CONTEMPORARY RESEARCH
ASSESSMENT 4
INDUSTRY WHITEPAPER
6 Introduce Assessment
7
8 Assessment Due
9 Introduce Assessment
Break
10
11
12 Assessment Due
ASSESSMENT THREE
CONTEMPORARY RESEARCH
You need to write a short report
on an academic article.
The report has a specific structure.
The article must be chosen from a
specific list of journals.
The article must have been
published in 2020.
ASSESSMENT THREE
CONTEMPORARY RESEARCH
Grades: 30%
Due date: 17 September, 5pm
Words: 1000
Demonstrate your ability to:
? Identify and source discipline-appropriate
academic research
? Extract academic concepts from research
? Evaluate benefits across academic research
Formative for:
? Assessment four, Industry Whitepaper
? Academic research skills for other units
INSTRUCTIONS
Moodle > Assessments > Approved Journals
Find a journal that you are interested in, and
find it in the library database.
Look at its issues from 2020, and find an
article to read.
Read the article, then read one of the articles
it cites.
Write a report on these articles that meets the
assessment criteria.
REPORT STRUCTURE
Introduction
? Explain why you selected this article (50 words)
Primary Article Evaluation (article from 2020)
? Write 100 words about the ideas
? Write 200 words about the writing
Cited Article Evaluation (article cited by primary article)
? Write 100 words about the ideas
? Write 200 words about the writing
Comparison
? Write 350 words comparing the two articles
? Indicate what you learned from the articles.
Reference List
EVALUATING IDEAS
Focus on positives
? What kinds of topics does it cover?
? What evidence does it use?
? What methods does the author use in their
research?
? What are its conclusions?
? What do you think is excellent about the article?
and/or
? any other material that you think is important or
relevant to explaining the ideas.
EVALUATING WRITING
Focus on positives
? How is the article structured?
? How does the structure help to
communicate the article’s ideas?
? Who is cited in the article? Why?
? Why do you think it was written in the
way it was?
? How has the writing
COMPARISONS
Focus on similarities and differences
? What is the problem, context, or idea that the
two articles share?
? Demonstrate what you think is important about
these articles.
? Identify why your primary article cites the
secondary article. Why did the author do this?
? Tell us what you learned or gained as a result of
this article.
? This can be direct
? Or it can be indirect
ADVICE + ANSWERS TO
COMMON QUESTIONS
You can use first or third person when
writing.
Focus on positives.
You need to properly cite anything that
you refer to.
You are not expected to engage with
further research beyond what is
explicitly outlined in the assessment.
Understanding the Media: Assessment