BUSN20017 EFFECTIVE BUSINESS COMMUNICATION

Task Description

Assignment Type:

Reflective Practice Essay

Due date:

The assessment is due in Week 12 Friday 5th, October, 11:00 PM

Weighting:

AEST.

This assessment accounts for 40% of your final grade. Essays that

Length:

are submitted late will receive a late penalty of 2 points per day late.

The assignment must be between 1500-2000 words in length. Two

Cover sheet:

points will be deducted for the essays that are +/- 200 words.

The assessment must include a cover page that contains your name,

student number, resident campus, assessment title, and lecturer

Style:

and/or tutor.

The assessment must double-spaced; 11 Point; Times New Roman

References:

The assessment must include 10 academic references. You must use

Other:

the APA reference style.

This is an essay and should not include headings.

Task Description:

The objective of this reflective essay is to summarize what you

learned from the unit and how you believe your learnings could be

applied by you in your future career goals.

Sections:

Section one: For weeks one to ten you should identify one

important or significant concept that you have learned about. You

should define the concept and then explain why it is important to

you in your current line of work. It is not enough to simply say that

the concept is important, you will need to explain why.

Section two: Based on your discussion of the ten significant

concepts you should provide a literature review of one of the

concepts. So for example, if you found that listening was an

important communication concept then you should provide a

literature review on the current academic understanding of the

importance of listening within the work environment.

Section three: Lastly, you will need to discuss how two of the ten

concepts could be important to your future career aspirations. Here

you will need to identify where you wish to be in 5 years’ time, and

then discuss how you think these concepts/skills will help you meet

your career goal. It is important that you are specific as possible.

Outline of essay:

Your essay should follow the following structure:

1.  Introduction

a.  Opening statement that introduces the topic

b.  Background information that introduces the context,

significance and the purpose of the essay

c.  Preview of the structure of the essay

d.  Thesis

e.  Transition to section one

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