AIX117 - Professional Writing for Work

Unit details

Year:

2024 unit information

Enrolment modes:Trimester 2: Burwood (Melbourne), Waurn Ponds (Geelong), Online
Trimester 3: Burwood (Melbourne), Online
Credit point(s):1
EFTSL value:0.125
Unit Chair:Trimester 2: Karen Le Rossignol
Trimester 3: Karen Le Rossignol
Cohort rule:Nil
Prerequisite:

Nil

Corequisite:Nil
Incompatible with: ALW117, ALW217, EAD110
Typical study commitment:

Students will on average spend 150-hours over the teaching period undertaking the teaching, learning and assessment activities for this unit.

This will include educator guided online learning activities within the unit site.

Educator-facilitated (scheduled) learning activities - on-campus unit enrolment:

1 x 2-hour seminar per week

Educator-facilitated (scheduled) learning activities - online unit enrolment:

Online learning, independent and collaborative learning activities, including 1 x 2-hour seminar equivalent

Content

This unit focuses on developing flexible and transferable communication, writing and research skills for employability in a twenty-first century work environment. Students will explore ways of professionally representing themselves, organisations and community or social issues within the context of their own discipline-specific work requirements. They will use online techniques and tools and imaginative digital world workplace scenarios to prepare themselves for professional, organisational and online writing for specific purposes in workplace contexts.

ULO These are the Learning Outcomes (ULO) for this unit. At the completion of this unit, successful students can: Deakin Graduate Learning Outcomes
ULO1

Demonstrate the creative use of resources, tools and technologies in developing a range of discipline-specific writing tasks

GLO1: Discipline knowledge and capabilities

ULO2

Apply relevant materials and research from a range of sources to a folio of workplace-oriented writing tasks

GLO5: Problem solving

GLO8: Global citizenship

ULO3

Write and redraft clearly, concisely and creatively within a deadline to a specified readership

GLO2: Communication

ULO4

Demonstrate working with others to solve a workplace-oriented task

GLO7: Teamwork

ULO5

Evaluate your own and the work of others

GLO4: Critical thinking

ULO6

Demonstrate use of technology for a range of purposes including working with others, communication and accessing sources of research

GLO3: Digital literacy

Assessment

Assessment Description Student output Grading and weighting
(% total mark for unit)
Indicative due week
Assessment 1 - Research report on social issue (discipline-specific) 1200 words 30% Week 5
Assessment 2 (Group and Individual) - Scenario-based working in teams evaluation and individual reflection 800 words 20% Week 7
Assessment 3 - Online Writing Folio 2000 words 50% Week 11

The assessment due weeks provided may change. The Unit Chair will clarify the exact assessment requirements, including the due date, at the start of the teaching period.

Learning Resource

The texts and reading list for the unit can be found on the University Library via AIX117
Note: Select the relevant trimester reading list. Please note that a future teaching period's reading list may not be available until a month prior to the start of that teaching period so you may wish to use the relevant trimester's prior year reading list as a guide only.

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