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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
ief 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:
XXXXXXXXXX%
Submission
time and date:
Monday 6 Fe
uary 2023
efore 23:59
Target feedback
time and date:
3 weeks from the date of final
submission
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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.
XXXXXXXXXXEthical 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?
. What improvements need to be made and why?
XXXXXXXXXXc. 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.
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• 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
eport a
anged in alphabetical order i
espective of the sources and ONE Appendix page following
the reference list page.
You can access guidance to Harvard referencing here:
https:
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eferencing/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
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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
eceipt 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
egulations.
Summative Submission Deadline date and time: Monday 6 Fe
uary 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 defe
al 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:
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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
elevant 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
eflects 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
alanced 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
etween the two.
Excellent communication and
evaluation of concepts or
evidence, facilitating a highly
logical, coherent, and
alanced development of
judgements or arguments.
Strong awareness of other
stances.
Excellent defence with
esearch-informed argument.
Consistently accurate
application of referencing.
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shows full awareness
of the nature of the
area of study and
different perspectives
or approaches within it
provide a basis for the
eflection.
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
asis 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.
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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
k
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
alanced development of
judgements. Good
awareness of the strengths
and weakness of past
experiences that provide a
asis for the reflection.
Consistent and accurate
application of theory to
practice, with the student
making appropriate links
etween the two.
Adequate communication and
evaluation of concepts or
evidence, facilitating a largely
logical, coherent, and
alanced development of
judgements or arguments. An
emerging awareness of other
stances.
Adequate defence with
esearch-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.
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M
a
g
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