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Which of the following points are true about professional reports at university?
Check three options.
1. A key aim of these reports is to display understanding of how knowledge is generated
in your field.
2. They have both real audiences and imagined audiences.
3. May follow guidelines set by professional bodies or publishers.
4. Purpose is to show familiarity with experimental methods.
5. Language must be brief and key points quickly understood.
6. Their structure is usually Introduction-Methodology- Results-Discussion/Conclusion. -
Answer- 2. They have both real audiences and imagined audiences.
3. May follow guidelines set by professional bodies or publishers.
5. Language must be brief and key points quickly understood.
Consider the same presentation assessment from an undergraduate business course
unit of study outline.
Groups of 3-4 will design an online marketing campaign for the organisation of their
choice. They will write a report addressed to the organisation's marketing director,
giving reasons for their choices. Groups will also present their campaign in the final
lesson of the course. The presentation must be addressed to the company's board of
directors, and will need to 'pitch' their marketing strategy to the board, as well as giving
reasons for their choices. The presentation will last for 10 minutes, with extra time at the
end for questions.
What kind of research will students need to do for the presentation?
A. C. Research into the market demographics for the online marketing campaign.
B. B. Research into the organisation to which the presentation is addressed.
C. Both B and C.
D. A. None - Answer- A. None
According to Pat, how can you search sites such as academic databases more
efficiently to get the information you want?
Check 2 options.
1. Boolean searching
2. Precision when looking for academic journal articles.
3. Use key words from assignment.
4. fine-grained searching - Answer- 1. Boolean searching
3. Use key words from assignment.
Consider the following assessment question.
"It is important to remember that educational software, like textbooks, is only one tool in
the learning process. Neither can be a substitute for well-trained teachers, leadership,
and parental involvement" (Keith Krueger). How important is educational technology?
, A student has run the following search term while researching the question:
" "educational technology" AND teacher training NOT parent"
It has returned very few results. Choose the best reason why below.
A. The student needs to use Boolean searching.
B. The search is too wide because using NOT as a search term widens the search.
C. The student needs to use synonyms in their search.
D. The search is too narrow because using AND and NOT as search terms narrows the
search - Answer- The search is too narrow because using AND and NOT as search
terms narrows the search
Which of the following is NOT a criterion used to judge the credibility of sources?
A. Clarity
B. Scholarly purpose
C. Audience
D. Objectivity - Answer- Clarity
Which of the following may pose a problem for objectivity?
Check 2 options.
1. A study conducted by an airline company on the relative safety of air travel compared
to boat travel.
2. A peer-reviewed journal article on the impact of social media on high-school
behaviour
3. A journal article on the health impacts of a particular fast-food burger that was
sponsored by the fast-food chain which makes it.
4. A journal article on the health impacts of a particular fast-food burger that was
sponsored by the World Health Organisation. - Answer- 1. A study conducted by an
airline company on the relative safety of air travel compared to boat travel.
3. A journal article on the health impacts of a particular fast-food burger that was
sponsored by the fast-food chain which makes it.
Consider our example assessment question.
""Doctors can be replaced by software - 80% of them can. I'd much rather have a good
machine learning system diagnose my disease than the median or average doctor"
(Vinod Khosla). Discuss the implications of artificial intelligence doing traditionally
human tasks from technical, social and economic perspectives."
You have found a journal article for your assignment; the abstract of the article is below.
Read the abstract and answer the question below.
"This study seeks to explore the educational affordances and constraints of English
language teacher robots in Korea. With small but increasing use of AIs in service
industries, there is a growing literature on the impact of robots and AI on everyday
social interactions in a number of contexts; however, the effects of robots and AIs in
educational contexts remain relatively unexplored. This study used ethnographic means
- Answer- Yes
While reading an information source, what should you do if you find references to other
additional relevant information sources?