Group Assessment

Instructions

Career exploration and discovery

 The purpose of this assessment is to select five (5) journal articles related to the discipline of business and to learn from them with respect to your own career wishes and desires. Your job is to: identify issues, gather data, analyse  the forces at play in each of the five journal articles that is related to career development and recommend appropriate courses of action that will benefit your career. 

How to proceed and write the Journal Article Review

In this assessment the objective is to, “…build learner capacity to identify, gather, summarise and reference academic research papers related to the discipline of business.” 

The way you can think about this is that you will be taking another person’s text and:

understand it, summarize it, and write in your own words your opinion about that text and whether it impacts or is influential with respect to your career. 

Keep in mind that YOUR opinion matters as much as does the author who wrote the text.  You are reviewing their work! They are not reviewing YOUR work! 

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Now, how do you write this?

Step 1: Pick a Journal Article #1 (say 10 pages) that is about career development or the career you want to have when you graduate from Holmes.

Step 2: To get an idea of what the topic is about, “look at the abstract”! Read it very carefully. 

Step 3: WARNING! Don’t start writing until you are fully aware of what the journal article is about. 

Step 4: Read through the article and extract and write a summary of the main points of the article. Write them on a separate piece of paper. 

Step 5: Make certain that supporting facts to the main points are also summarized.  If you see words you do not understand just use your dictionary!

Step 6: Read through the article AGAIN – you should really understand the article now. 

Step 7: Go back to # 4 above and expand the summary of the main points that you have written – and any facts that were used to support them. BUT, this is a summary of the author’s arguments, thoughts and views – NOT YOURS!

Repeat steps #1 to 7 using five different journal articles selected by the group.

Remember! Use short and simple sentences such as:

 “The author thinks that there are strong career opportunities in XXXX.”

“ He also thinks that there are not many opportunities in the banking industry.”

So, in summary short sentences not more than 10 words to a sentence! 

OK, now you should understand what the article is about as you have summarized the main points and have created some paragraphs about the main points. 

So, you can NOW start to express your main thoughts using this structure:

Title – keep it short and interesting, e.g. “Career opportunities in the IT industry in XXX”

Citation, please use Holmes Institute adapted Harvard referencing

Section A: Journal Article #1

Journal Article #1: Introduction

Use it to simply state the main points of the argument. If there are 4 main points, then simply speak about these in 4 short sentences – remember less than 10 words per sentence. So, in total it will be about 40 words. (Include reasons for your choice if the case)

• Summarize the main points of the article.
• Highlight reasons for choosing this article

Your opinion on Journal Article #1

Go back to #7 and use that expanded summary to discuss what your opinion is of the author’s ideas. This is YOUR opportunity to say what YOU THINK! Write in your own words, maximum of 10 words to a line and maximum of 4 sentences to a paragraph.

• Reflect on the author's ideas in your own words.
• Keep sentences concise, not exceeding 10 words each.
• Limit each paragraph to a maximum of 4 sentences.

Critique of Journal Article #1

This is your chance to say what you think of what the author said. Is it reasonable or unreasonable? So, you could say, “The author is disappointed about banking employment. (7 words) But he does not offer evidence.”  (6 words). (Include identification of Unit issues in the chosen case)

• Evaluate the reasonableness of the author's arguments.
• Provide concise critiques, not exceeding 10 words per sentence.
• Identify any issues with evidence or reasoning.

Impact on your career- Journal Article #1

Possible impact on your career of the discussion in the journal article 

• Discuss potential implications of the article on your career.
• Keep responses brief and to the point.

Repeat the Above Steps in Section A for the Remaining Journal Articles to create Sections B to E for Journal Articles #2 to #5. Follow the same structure and guidelines for each article.

Section F: Overall Summary of the Five Journal Articles:

• Summarize key findings and insights from all articles.
• Reflect on the collective impact of the articles on career exploration.
• Conclude with any overarching observations or lessons learned.

PROOFREAD, make certain all grammar, spelling, upper & lower cases are correct.

 Penalties may reduce your actual mark, as follows:

1. Late submissions -5% per day.
2. No cover sheet OR inaccuracies on the cover sheet -10%
3. Inaccuracies in referencing OR incomplete referencing OR not in Holmes-adapted-Harvard style -10%
4. No appendix at end indicating which student wrote which section, or incomplete details entered in appendix -10%
5. Submission is not all in one single document -10%

Assessment Citation and Referencing Rules 

Holmes has implemented a revised Harvard approach to referencing. The following rules apply: 1. Reference sources in assignments are limited to sources that provide full-text access to the source’s content for lecturers and markers.

1. The reference list must be located on a separate page at the end of the essay and titled:

“References”.

1. The reference list must include the details of all the in-text citations, arranged A-Z alphabetically by author surname with each reference numbered (1 to 10, etc.) and each reference MUST include a hyperlink to the full text of the cited reference source.

For example:

8. Hawking, P., McCarthy, B. & Stein, A. 2004. Second Wave ERP Education, Journal of Information Systems Education, Fall, http://jise.org/Volume15/n3/JISEv15n3p327.pdf 4. All assignments must include in-text citations to the listed references. These must include the surname of the author/s or name of the authoring body, year of publication, page number of the content, and paragraph where the content can be found. For example, “The company decided to implement an enterprise-wide data warehouse business intelligence strategy.