Assessment topic

Assignment 2 – Analysing and synthesising information

Assessment type

Literature review

Length requirements

3500 words ± 10%

Submission details

Submission will only be accepted via EITOnline. Please check the Assignment Dropbox or Course Schedule for due date and time. Note that the Dropbox will check your assignment for breaches of academic integrity. Remember to include a cover page.

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Weighting

65%

Course learning outcomes covered

LO2: Analyse and synthesise reviewed scholarly information in a written report
LO3: Apply scholarly, legal and ethical principles when accessing and using information sources

Resources for this assessment

Library databases

Background to this assessment

This is the second assessment for Information Sourcing and Evaluation. For this assessment you will return to the scenario that you developed for assignment one, but this time you will review the relevant literature on the adoption of your selected technology and make a recommendation about whether your selected company should adopt the technology.

Task 1

Instructions: Write a literature review using the resources selected in assessment 1, and make a recommendation about whether your organisation should adopt the selected technology (2750 words):

• Specify and justify three criteria that you will use to evaluate your selected technology
• Evaluate the selected technology against each of these criteria by analysing and synthesising information from your selected resources
• Provide a clear recommendation about whether the technology should be adopted
• Include a list of references in APA 7 style using Endnote
• Upload a copy of your Endnote library to the Endnote library dropbox
• Upload PDF copies of any text based resources to the sources dropbox

Guidelines:

• Evaluation criteria should be logically related to the rationale for adoption described in your scenario; these criteria could include cost, feasibility, and effectiveness.
• You can use the resources you selected for assessment 1, or you can select new resources, but your resources should still cover the same categories
• Your report should include the following: title page; executive summary; table of contents; introduction section; section for discussion of evaluative criteria, three sections for applying each evaluative criteria; conclusions section; recommendations section; and a list of references.
• The purpose of this task is to demonstrate your ability to use information resources effectively, so you should address each evaluative criteria by drawing on the relevant information from your selected resources

Task 2

Instructions: Write a discussion of how funding might have biased your selected resources (750 words):

• Select three of your resources and for each resource briefly describe how production was funded, and other incentives that might have contributed to production, how publication was funded, and how your access was funded
• Discuss how these economic considerations might create bias and impact the credibility of each resource

Guidelines:

• You can include this task as an appendix at the end of your report
• Try to select three resources that were funded in different ways or which illustrate different types of potential bias
• In many cases you will not be able to find definitive answers about funding but you should investigate the publishing venue (journal, magazine, website, etc) and draw reasonable conclusions
• The purpose of this task is to demonstrate that you understand the variety of ways in which creation, publication, and access can be funded, and how these different types of funding can create bias

Be sure to consider the performance criteria on the marking rubric for this assessment.