How to complete the first assessment: digisoc1
Identify an individual or organisation with a public online presence and critically analyse their communications through one or more platforms e.g. website, twitter feed
Topic: Analysis of an individual or organisation’s public online communications through one or more platforms.
Marking criteria: This is the first and smallest piece of coursework; coverage of learning outcomes is partial, to give you feedback for you to act on when they are assessed more fully later.
- Find, critically evaluate and share information online. Understand the skills needed for an effective and successful online presence. Partially relates to Learning Outcomes 1, 2 and 3.
- Use the internet and social media to develop your communication skills and share information. Partially relates to Learning Outcome 5.
- Full description of marking criteria for this assessment.
- Full description of each learning outcome, and how they are assessed.
Length: 500 words.
Style: Blog post. This means: more informal tone than an essay. You are still required to reference everything you would in an essay, including ideas from other students’ previous writing on this unit.
As you are are writing online, link to what you are referencing within the text of your blog post rather than producing a reference list at the end of your blog post.
For help with referencing you can access the My Learning Essentials Citing it right tutorial.
Submission format: public Medium post, published with the tag digisoc1, submitted to the Digital Society publication.
You can edit your post until the deadline, but you must not edit, delete or unpublish your work between the deadline and the end of the unit. This is to allow your work to be marked and viewed by others.
Rules and regulations: Can you go over the word limit? You can go up to 10% over with no consequences. After exactly 110% we will stop reading which will naturally affect your mark.
Deadline: 9am, Friday 15th February 2019.
Submission format: public Medium post, published with the tag digisoc1, submitted to the Digital Society publication. Full instructions for submission.
Licensing: Choose any licence available on Medium to share your work. The University maintains its usual rights to store and use your assessed work, but you remain the copyright owner, and you may release/use the work as you wish, as long as you do not change the submitted version until after the unit has finished. This is to enable us to assess it, and other students to read it.
Weighting within unit: 10%
Please email digisoc@manchester.ac.uk with any questions or problems.
