2013 tp3 lfsc006a subject outline

SWINBURNE COLLEGE PATHWAYS PROGRAMS

COURSE CODE L0046FB – Foundation Business, L0046FD – Foundation Design, L0046FE – Foundation

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Swinburne College : Pathways

Prepared by : Imelda Carthy of 13

Valid for Teaching Period 3 – 2013 ( October 2013 – January 2014)

Subject Code LFSC006A

Title “Academic and Communication Skills A”

Teaching

Period

October 2013 –

January 2014 (TP3) Year 2013 Group Foundation

1. Contact Details

Name Telephone Email

Subject Convenor Imelda Carthy 9214-4664 [email protected]

Director of Studies

Teachers Imelda Carthy

9214-4664

[email protected]

General Administration

Contact

Isobel Wroe 9214-4740 [email protected]

Program Office Room TD 190 Swinburne College

Key Contact Kathleen Drew (Foundation) TD194 [email protected]

2. Learning and Teaching Structure

Delivery: This unit is taught via 7 hours of classes each week, divided into one 3-hour + two 2-hour classes.

These classes will be delivered by attending face-to-face tutorials.

Blackboard will be used to supplement the tutorials with helpful tutorial notes and worksheets.

In a semester, you would normally expect to spend, on average, twelve and a half hours of total time (formal

contact time plus independent study time) a week on a 12.5 credit point unit of study.

In developing the English language competencies of international students all classes will be guided by the

10 Good Practices Principles as set down by the Australian Government.

(Ref: http://www.deewr.gov.au/HigherEducation/Publications/Pages/GoodPracticePrinciples.aspx)

3. Email communication

For privacy and reliability reasons Swinburne College will only communicate with you via your official

Swinburne College email account. It is your responsibility to check this account regularly for important

official communication. Your email account is: <your-student-number>@swin.edu.au

mailto:[email protected]




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4. Special Needs

If you have special needs you should advise your Academic Manager by the end of the second week of the

teaching period. In addition, you are recommended to notify the Equity Office if you have not already done

so. http://www.swinburne.edu.au/stuserv/equity/

http://www.swinburne.edu.au/stuserv/equity/



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5. Module Outline

Contact Hours 100

Module Type Core

Pre/Co Requisites Nil

Description / Aims

This unit is the first of two compulsory language units for students in the

Foundation Studies program. This initial unit of study is intended as an

introduction to using Australian English to meet the demands of further academic

study. The unit aims to extend student language skills through thinking, reading,

writing, speaking and listening. Students will be assessed on their ability to

communicate ideas, feelings, observations and information, effectively, both

orally and in writing.

Learning Outcomes: 1 Identify ideas and themes in a range of texts.

2 Deliver an oral presentation based upon a specific text.

3 Understand structures and features of persuasive texts from the Australian media.

4 Write an essay that presents a point of view.

5 Understand what an annotated bibliography is and how to prepare one.

6 Demonstrate the ability to write clearly and concisely in a range of registers.



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6 Weekly Schedule

SWINBURNE COLLEGE - PATHWAYS PROGRAMS

TIMELINE – TEACHING PERIOD 1 (2013)

Week Commencing (Monday)

Topic and Learning Outcomes Assessment/Exercises

1 14 October Diagnostic Testing.

English Basics.

2 21 October Writing Styles & Text Types:

eg. narrative, descriptive, letters.

Writing: (for example)

- Personal profiles,

- Film reviews,

- Short stories,

- Travel stories,

- Letter writing.

3 28 October “The Writing Process”.

Editing skills.

Magazine: text review / editing.

College Closed 4 – 5 November

Melbourne Cup

4 6 November Magazine Production:

Final text editing.

Page Layout & Design.

5 11 November Magazine Production:

Final layout editing.

Submission to the Printers

Class Magazine (20%) (inc. 4 pieces of writing, using different writing styles and text types.)

6 18 November

Effective reading skills.

Paraphrasing skills

Presentation Skills

Individual Presentation (5%)

7

25 November

Plagiarism & Referencing.

Harvard System basics.

8 2 December Preparation for Class Test:

Paragraph Writing.

Class Test (5%)

9 9 December

Reading for detail

Bibliography & ‘in-text’ refs

Summarising and paraphrasing

Researching

10

16 December Argumentative Essay: purpose,

structure, and analysis.

Outlining (planning).

Forming opinions.

Writing opinion ‘paragraphs’.

Writing in the third-person.

Annotated Bibliography (10%)

Monday 23 December – Friday 3

January 2014

Christmas Break

11 6 January Writing ‘body’ paragraphs.

Evidencing your arguments.



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12 13 January Refuting counter arguments.

Introductions & conclusions. Argumentative Essay (10%)

13 20 January Revision.

14 23 September Exam Week (23 Sept to 27 Sept 2013) Exam (50%)



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7. Assessment Details

Assessment Outline

Assessment Task Weighting Learning Outcomes

Class Magazine 20% 1, 2, 6

Class Test 5% 4, 5

Writing Project

i) Presentation

5%

2

ii) Annotated

Bibliography

10% 5

iii) Argumentative

Essay

10% 2, 3, 4

Exam 50% 1, 5, 6

8. Minimum requirements to pass this subject

In order to pass this subject you must achieve, an aggregate mark of 50%.

9. Learning Resources

Books (Recommended)

Oshima, A & Hogue, A 2007, Introduction to academic writing 3rd

edn, Pearson Longman,

New York.

Housden, E 2010, Senior text types, Farr Books, Queensland.

Library

Resources Harvard style guide 2012, Swinburne University of Technology, www.swin.edu.au/lib.

10. Blackboard site for this subject

Important information concerning this subject is placed on Blackboard, the Swinburne College course

management system. It is your responsibility to access Blackboard on a regular basis. The address is;

http://ilearn.swin.edu.au

Comment [KD1]: Written twice

http://ilearn.swin.edu.au/



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11. Assignment Details and Marking Criteria

The considerations to be used in marking assignments and the standards needs to be achieved are

shown below.

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Assessment Task 1: “MAGAZINE PROJECT”

You are expected to collaborate in the writing, editing and layout of a class magazine. Your mark will be based on your individual contributions to the magazine, (ie. your writing,

artwork, etc), as well as your overall participation and teamwork.

WHAT TO WRITE: Every student should write at least four original articles; each article should be a different ‘text type’. For example, a short story, a movie review, a travel story, and a letter. Other text types may include: recipes or personal writing, (such as: your first impressions of

Australia, advice for visitors to your country, comparing different customs, or a personal profile.)

*** NOTE: Your teacher will guide you in this. *** You will have a fair degree of freedom about ‘what’ you write - so long as your articles are original, interesting and not offensive to other students. The articles don’t all have to be serious, either – as long as they are well written and either informative or entertaining. THE WRITING PROCESS: One very important aspect of this assessment is to improve ‘how’ you write. To this end, you will be expected to ‘plan’ before you write, as well as writing ‘draft’ versions. As you write, you should collect together all your ‘planning’ notes and ‘draft’ versions into a neat “work folder”.

*** NOTE: You are expected to submit your “work folder” along with your final articles. *** PRESENTATION: Remember, magazine articles need illustrations and an attractive layout to attract attention – in order to make people want to read them! Therefore, this will be an aspect of your work that you will also need to consider. FINALLY: Creating a quality magazine requires some hard work. However, this is also a chance to have some fun, and make a great class souvenir!

(This assessment is worth 20% of your total subject-mark)



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‘Class Magazine’ Marking Guide:



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Assessment Task 2: Writing Project

Presentation (5%)

Due date: Week 6

Task:

You will research a newspaper article on a given topic and you will be expected to give an individual five minute presentation about the article and its contents.

You may or may not use visual aids in your presentation. The most important requirement is that you can understand and clearly explain the content of the article. This may require doing further research about the information in the article.

You will be expected to answer questions on the article.



Annotated Bibliography (10%)

Due date: Week 10

Task:

The Annotated Bibliography consists of 5 reviews of texts related to an specific topic.

The information gathered for the Annotated Bibliography will form the basis for your

argumentative essay.

The sources used should be current and may include books, journals and newspapers.

Each text should be reviewed separately and the reviews should be 150 – 200 words in

length. The reviews should not exceed the word limit.

Each review will consist of two paragraphs. In the first you will be expected to briefly

summarise that author’s main point or arguments in your own words. In the second you

will explain how the summarised information relates to your essay topic.




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ARGUMENTATIVE ESSAY (10%)

Due date: Week 12

Task:

You are expected to write an ‘argumentative essay’, (of approximately 750 words), on a topic

given to you by your teacher.

Your arguments should be supported with facts, examples, and appropriate quotations.

You should also refute possible counter arguments.

In preparing your essay, you are expected to research current materials, (such as newspapers), to support your arguments, and to inform your essay.

NOTE: You must reference at least five different sources. You must use the ‘Harvard System’ for all your referencing, (inc. in-text and bibliography references).It is expected that these references will be taken from your Annotated Bibliography.




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12. Submission of assignments

NOTE: In addition to the points below, you should also follow any specific instructions by your

teacher about ‘how’ to submit assignments.

Assignments need to follow the Harvard standard/style of presentation. A style brochure is available in

the library. http://www.swinburne.edu.au/lib/researchhelp/harvard_style.html

Assignments are to be submitted according to the class teacher’s requirements before the specified time

and date.

Students need to ensure they keep a hard copy of any assignments they submit. This copy needs to be

DATED. Keeping an electronic copy on file is not adequate.

Students should note that Saturday and Sunday are deemed to be working days in the case of late

submission of assignments.

Plagiarism will not be permitted. Students need to attach an assignment declaration form available from

the admin office / reception.

Any assignment submitted after the designated due date and time will be penalised by deduction of

10% of the marks for each working day that the assignment is late.

Late assignments will only be accepted without penalty if a student has a valid medical reason or an

extension has been applied for and granted, in writing. A medical certificate must accompany any

valid medical reason for a late assignment or test being missed and must be provided within 72

hours of the assignment or test due date.

Any assignment that is more than five working days late will not be accepted for marking.

Extensions will only be granted in exceptional circumstances and any request for an extension should be

made, in writing, at least a week before the assignment is due.

If a teacher designates that an assignment is to be handed in to the office, students must ensure that the

assignment is date stamped by the Administration staff.

Resubmission of Assignments

Students may resubmit an assignment or assessment piece that has not received a pass at the discretion of the

subject convener. Re-submitted work can only achieve a pass grade.

13. Plagiarism

Swinburne College defines Plagiarism as the action or practice of taking and submitting or presenting

thoughts, writings or other work of someone else as though it is our own work. Plagiarism includes any of

the following, without full and appropriate acknowledgment of the original source(s):

i) The use of whole or part of a computer program written by another person;

ii) The use, in essays or other assessable work, of the whole or part of a written work from any

source including but not limited to a book, journal, newspaper article, set of lecture notes,

current or past student’s work, or any other person’s work, a website or database;

iii) The paraphrasing of another’s work;

iv) The use of musical composition, audio, visual, graphic and photographic models’

v) The use of realia; that is objects, artefacts, costumes, models and the like.

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Plagiarism also includes the preparation and production and submission or presentation of assignments or

other work in conjunction with another person or other people when that work should be your own

independent work. This remains plagiarism whether or not it is with the knowledge or consent of the other

person or people. It should be noted that Swinburne College encourages its students to talk to staff, fellow

students and other people who may be able to contribute to a student’s academic work but that where

independent assignment is required, submitted or presented work must be the student’s own.

Allowing or otherwise assisting another student to copy or otherwise plagiarise work by, for example,

allowing access to a draft or completed assignment or other work, is also considered plagiarism. Students

will be penalised for work that has been plagiarised.

14. Student Feedback

Swinburne College seeks student feedback in a number of ways, including through periodic surveys as part

of the College’s approach to quality assurance and improvement.

The address is: http://www.swinburne.edu.au/corporate/feedback/

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