LEARNING OUTCOMES ASSESSED 1.developing awareness of individual, cultural and social influences on communication and successful engagement with the multi-literacies required for academic study at...

LEARNING OUTCOMES ASSESSED
1.developing awareness of individual, cultural and social influences on communication and successful engagement with the multi-literacies required for academic study at undergraduate level
2. developing ability to critically engage with academic texts
3.the ability to produce academic texts that meet the conventions and expectations of undergraduate writing




A. Preparation


Choose a topic or an issue in your discipline area which you would like to research for Assessment 2 Essay. Think about questions you might like to explore and check the topic with your lecturer. The topic will be reflected in the bibliography title.


Use Library Search to locate two academic journal articles which might provide relevant information for your essay topic. You may need to skim read several articles or their abstracts before you select the two you will use.  At this stage you should begin to formulate an idea of what your position/thesis might be, however, this may change after further reading.


   The two academic journal articles will form the basis of an annotated bibliography
(list of research sources) for your proposed essay topic.
   Your bibliography will contain two entries, one for each article, listed in
alphabetical order by author’s surname according to APA 6th conventions.
   Each entry will consist of a full reference list citation and an annotation/ summary.




B. Presentation


Write an annotated bibliography for your essay according to the instructions below.


1.    Write a title e.g.  Stem Cell Research: An Annotated Bibliography


My topic/ title is…….. Obesity is the problem of the consumers not producers