Annotated Bibliographies
Business Academic Skills
Week 6 Workshop
Annotated Bibliographies
Student Materials
Learning Outcomes:
Identify key information in resources.
Evaluate the limitations of resources.
Articulate overall appropriateness and usefulness of a resource for a given assessment task.
Rationale:
Academic literature and business reports are lengthy and knowing what information is important and relevant and where to find it is often difficult. At university, students often need to read copious amounts of literature to complete assessment tasks but are unable to identify key elements within the text, such as the thesis statements and research methodologies, and evaluate them. In the work environment, employers expect employees to know …show more content…
The authors used a Likert survey to identify the communication skills that department chairs found most important. However, the survey sample only had a sixteen percent response rate so the results may not be transferable to other educational institutions or stakeholders. Thus, other institutions and stakeholders like students and employers should also be surveyed. The authors conclude that there needs to be greater focus on writing skills including grammar, traditional business letters, proposals, reports and …show more content…
RESEARCHING SECTION 3: ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY /50
Clear Fail
Needs Work
Pass
Credit
Distinction
High Distinction
REFERENCE
Harvard
UWS
reference
Not in any known referencing format
Missing required bibliographic details or
No references included.
All or most references are not in Harvard UWS style but:
All required bibliographic details are present.
May or may not include view date and url/data base/DOI.
All references are in Harvard UWS style but:
Some required bibliographic details are not present and/or
They are poorly formatted.
The Harvard UWS style is acceptable:
Most of the required bibliographic details are present and/or
Not correctly formatted.
The Harvard UWS style is very good:
All required bibliographic details are present; but
It is not properly punctuated and/or
May or may not include view date and url/data base/DOI.
Correctly formatted.
The Harvard UWS style is excellent:
Authors’ names are presented correctly
Date presented correctly
Titles are italicised
All required bibliographic details are present
May or may not include view date and url/data base/DOI.
Properly punctuated and
Correctly formatted.
/5
Week 6 Workshop
Annotated Bibliographies
Student Materials
Learning Outcomes:
Identify key information in resources.
Evaluate the limitations of resources.
Articulate overall appropriateness and usefulness of a resource for a given assessment task.
Rationale:
Academic literature and business reports are lengthy and knowing what information is important and relevant and where to find it is often difficult. At university, students often need to read copious amounts of literature to complete assessment tasks but are unable to identify key elements within the text, such as the thesis statements and research methodologies, and evaluate them. In the work environment, employers expect employees to know …show more content…
The authors used a Likert survey to identify the communication skills that department chairs found most important. However, the survey sample only had a sixteen percent response rate so the results may not be transferable to other educational institutions or stakeholders. Thus, other institutions and stakeholders like students and employers should also be surveyed. The authors conclude that there needs to be greater focus on writing skills including grammar, traditional business letters, proposals, reports and …show more content…
RESEARCHING SECTION 3: ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY /50
Clear Fail
Needs Work
Pass
Credit
Distinction
High Distinction
REFERENCE
Harvard
UWS
reference
Not in any known referencing format
Missing required bibliographic details or
No references included.
All or most references are not in Harvard UWS style but:
All required bibliographic details are present.
May or may not include view date and url/data base/DOI.
All references are in Harvard UWS style but:
Some required bibliographic details are not present and/or
They are poorly formatted.
The Harvard UWS style is acceptable:
Most of the required bibliographic details are present and/or
Not correctly formatted.
The Harvard UWS style is very good:
All required bibliographic details are present; but
It is not properly punctuated and/or
May or may not include view date and url/data base/DOI.
Correctly formatted.
The Harvard UWS style is excellent:
Authors’ names are presented correctly
Date presented correctly
Titles are italicised
All required bibliographic details are present
May or may not include view date and url/data base/DOI.
Properly punctuated and
Correctly formatted.
/5