Business Communication (TASK 1 ONLY)

Coventry University College

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Level Achieved:

L2

L3

Final Grade Achieved

(Level 3 units only)

Resubmission?

Y

N

Title of Access to HE Diploma:

(e.g. Science)

Unit title(s): Finding and reading information 1.1, 2.1

Unit code(s): HC7/3/LN/628

Learner:

Description of Assignment:

In order to achieve this unit you need to carefully read the assessment criteria for this unit on the following page.

Task 1: Create a research question to help you investigate one aspect of business communication- see tasks 1 and 2 of the business communication assignment for guidance. (use your question as a title for your work fo AC1.1, 1.2 and 2.2)

• Use a minimum of 3 sources, from the following: books, textbooks, newspapers, journals, e books, websites, DVD material.

• Demonstrate how you employed various reading techniques such as skimming, scanning, reviewing and summarising when using these sources

Create a mind-map for each of the three sources used, and stick to the focus of the question you posed.

The documents should have a title, start in the centre with the heading ‘workplace communication barriers’, show linked ideas and give correct references and citations for each source used at the bottom of each page.

Task 2: Look at the texts given to you by your tutor and examine implied meaning in them ( examples given below)

• Assumption, suggestion, irony, sarcasm, allusion, metaphor, inference, symbolic representation or statistical representation.

And

• Explain the purpose and effect of implied meaning in a variety of written texts

To achieve AC3.1 you need to read the given extract and explain the purpose of that implied meaning in the text showing why it was used and what effect it had on the overall text.

You may present your work in prose

Date set: 24/10/2016

Date for draft submission

(if applicable):

Date for

submission: 18/11/2016

Extension date

(if agreed):

Signed by Tutor/Assessor to agree extension:

Date

submitted:

Learner declaration:

• The explanations and evaluations in this work have been developed and written by me.

• I have not submitted material copied from the Internet, text books or other sources in place of my own thinking and writing.

• When I have referred to the work of others I have done so to discuss, comment on or argue their ideas.

• I have kept quotation and paraphrasing to an absolute minimum and only to support points I have made.

• I understand that referencing the names of authors whose ideas I have used without including my own interpretation of those ideas, does not meet the assessment criteria and cannot attract the Pass, Merit or Distinction grades.

• I have not copied the work of my peers

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Level 2/3

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Unit title: Finding and reading information

This assignment addresses the following Assessment Criteria from the unit (or a copy of the unit may be attached, if all AC are covered):

AC no

Level 3

1.1

Frame a purposeful question to provide focus when investigating information and/or ideas

1.2

Use a purposeful question or questions across a range of sources to include at least three types of sources e.g. books, text-books, newspapers, journals, magazines, scripts, e-books, websites and audio-visual material.

2.1

Use specific reading techniques to explore specific texts, documents, data etc.(e.g.

Skimming, scanning, reviewing, summarizing.

3.1

Explain the purpose and effect of implied meaning in a variety of written texts

Part A: Feedback on credit level

AC no

Credit achieved (L2/L3)

Location of evidence

Tutor/Assessor comments on assessment criteria

(you could also indicate on the work itself where each AC is met)

1.1

1.2

2.1

3.1

Level achieved

Tutor/Assessor’s signature:

Date:

Resubmission (if applicable)If any of the assessment criteria for this assignment have not been met at Level 3, a resubmission may be permitted. Resubmission must follow the QAA guidelines and be permitted only once.

Requirements for resubmission/new Task set:

5/12/2016

Feedback on resubmission:

Level achieved

after resubmission:

Tutor/Assessor’s signature:

Part B: Feedback on grading(Applicable only if all assessment criteria achieved at Level 3)

Grade Descriptor

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Grade

GD3

GD6

GD7: Quality

Tutor/Assessor’s reason for final grade decision (if applicable):