Purpose: This is an individual assessment where students are required to develop an ePortfolio that demonstrates engagement and reflection with various unit learning resources both provided in
Moodle and sourced by students within various areas of business communication. This assessment also focuses on Interpersonal and Digital literacy.
Interpersonal Skills 1 – With reference to the core readings, respond to the following.
Students are encouraged to use examples from your work/university/school in your responses.
• Why is EI important in the 21C? What role does it play in managerial decision making and why? (200 words max)
• Use the web to find articles on submissive and assertive behaviour. Submit two articles you used to find these examples. Why did they seem relevant to you? (200 words max)
Referencing requirements: Students must reference their ePortfolio submissions with relevant in sentence citations and references using APA 7ed style.
Marking guide:
Analysis of
Topic/Issue(s). Quality
of your analysis.
The overall quality of
the academic writing
and use of e- portfolio
features.
Conventional
requirements
for
academic writing but
also effective use of
the features of a
Canvas e- portfolio.
Greatly Exceeds Expectations
Your analysis is exemplary. You have critically analysed the topic question and identified one or more issues.
You illustrate exemplary scholarship in how you have used the Required Readings and other literature to support your analysis and assertions.
Your writing is well structured.
You provide a well- evidenced logical argument, which is well written and is well referenced using the appropriate Style.
Overall, the section greatly surpasses expectations.
1) Each page must display a word count.
2) Word count guidelines are provided for all ePortfolio submissions in the template,
wordcount excludes references and appendices. PLEASE NOTE: Word count is only
recommended; marks are allocated on quality of answers provided not volume of words.
3) All images and videos must be embedded in the Portfolio pages.
4) It is expected that all work submitted will have been edited for spelling, grammar, and
clarity.
Importantly, students should be aware that:
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You cannot submit for assessment content generated by AI except when expressly
permitted by Unit Coordinators, communicated through the unit description
Use of AI in assessment tasks without express permission is considered Academic
Misconduct and may result in you failing the unit
The use of AI may involve risks to one or more of personal privacy, intellectual
property and copyright infringement
AI responses may contain bias, factual inaccuracies and may include false references
Plagiarism is strictly treated!!!!!
A text book is not prescribed for this unit, however, if you wish to access the
text: Eunson, B. (2016). Communicating in the 21st century 4e. Wiley.