Description This assignment is designed to help you prepare and find relevant literature/information for writing the final assessment in this unit (Assessment 3), and will further your critical...

Description

This assignment is designed to help you prepare and find relevant literature/information for writing the final assessment in this unit (Assessment 3), and will further your critical searching and reviewing skills.

Task

You are required to find four (4) academic/research articles (from within ejournals found in the SCU Library about tourism or related issues) and complete an annotated bibliography (which just means writing a short summary about each article along with your critical assessment/evaluation about how it will relate and help write about the relevant theoretical concepts you need to discuss in Assessment 3 regarding your chosen destination).

Instructions

1. Watch the recording provided about how to do this assessment.


2. Briefly summarise and critically evaluate the relevance of the four (4) articles in relation to the requirements for Assessment 3 (see instructions for Assessment 3).Note:Your Weaver and Lawton textbook and unit Readings should not be used for this assessment, but will be used extensively as sources of information in Assessment 3.


3. Your annotated bibliography should be presented as follows (providing approximately 250 words for each annotation):

• provide a heading for each article, which is the Harvard reference as per the SCU Library online Harvard referencing guide (i.e. these are referred to as the bibliographic details of each article), arranged in alphabetical order as per the Harvard Referencing system (seehttp://libguides.scu.edu.au/harvard)


• provide an overview or brief description/summary of the important information in each article and your critical analysis/opinion regarding their strengths and weaknesses (e.g. is the aim clearly stated and does the conclusion address the aim; are the findings/results clearly presented; is the information up-to-date, etc.–we discuss these things in class and in the recordings about how to do this assessment)


• provide a statement or statements regarding the relevance or usefulness of each article in relation to the topics that need to be addressed in Assessment 3, e.g. does the article provide relevant information about the type of tourists who may visit your destination and/or their interests, or relevant theories about types of tourists; does it discuss the Whole Tourism System theory in relation to your, or a similar destination or region; does it provide information about destination or event planning that may be relevant to your destination in Assessment 3 (i.e. you need to be familiar with the requirements of Assessment 3 and the topics and theories weaddress in this unit).

4. Assignment reflection and Turnitin Report – provide a 200-word reflection of how you feel your critical reading, searching and general information literacy skills are developing through work on this assignment, and again attach a copy of your Turnitin Originality Report at the very end of this assessment document (which you can also discuss if relevant