Question- ‘What are the key academic writing styles and why are they important’? (Approx. 350 words)
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ASS065-1 Skills for the Social Sciences
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Assessment title
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Part one:
The first part of the portfolio is a 500 wordreflective piece on what the student has learnt about types of academic writing and why academic writing styles are important for university purposes.
Question- ‘What are the key academic writing styles and why are they important’? (Approx. 350 words)
This is followed by an introduction to their topic of interest, which the student will be investigating over the course of the semester (approx. 150 words).
Part two:
The second part of the portfolio will be 1500 words evidencing the student’s understanding of how research is used for social enquiry. This requires the student to use the topic chosen in part one identify 3 articles that are positivistic (quantitative) in style and 3 journal articles that are interpretative (qualitative) in style.
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Learning outcomes and threshold criteria(extracted from UIF)
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Unit learning outcomes and assessment criteria covered by this assessment
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Demonstrate the knowledge and understandingthe nature and applications of academic conventions in higher education required to source the journal articles on any chosen subject and understand the academic protocol for citing them.
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Recognise and differentiate between quantitative and qualitative research procedures and their methodological implications; the sociological approaches and philosophical underpinnings of positivism and interpretivism and have an understanding of the fundamental features of Modernism, Critical Theory and Post-modernism.
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ASS065-1 Skills for the Social Sciences
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