Assignment Brief Academic Year 2024-25

Module code FY026 Preparing for Success at Module leader: Tamanna Jahan
and title: University: Knowledge and
Creativity

Assignment CW1: Reflective Journal Assessment 40%

No. and type: weighting:

Submission Friday 8th November 2024 Target feedback 3 weeks after submission
time and date: before 2.00 pm time and date: deadline.

Assignment task

Write a reflective journal of 1000 words on your experience during Preparing for Success at
University: Knowledge and Creativity (PSKC) module. You may structure the journal as follows:

• Write an introduction to your reflective journal. (50 words)

• Select three topics out of four below sessions/lectures of PSKC module delivered in class at
LSST.
▪ RM Unify and MS Office Applications
▪ Digital literacy and technology skills
▪ Academic writing skills
▪ BNU Harvard Referencing

• Write three reflective logs (300 words each) on the above selected topics. (Total 900 words)

• Structure each reflective log using Driscoll's model, which consists of three stages:
o Stage 1- Description: Describe What happened?
o Stage 2- Analysis: So What? Reflect on the importance of this workshop by focusing on
your: Feelings and reactions, Key learnings, Challenges faced, and Application of class
activities.
o Stage 3- Future Actions: Now What? Based on what you learnt in your experience, focus
on identifying future actions and plans for improvement and future practice. You could focus
on: Continued practice, Setting goals, Personal development, Using resources, and
Applications in education or future career.

• Write a conclusion to your reflective journal. (50 words)

Internal approval: Name, Date

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If you are registered with the Disability and Inclusion Services or have a disability, please contact your
module leader to discuss how your reasonable adjustments will be applied to this assignment.

This assignment has been designed to provide you with an opportunity to demonstrate your
achievement of the following module learning outcomes:

LO 1: Demonstrate effective communication skills, applicable to academic and professional contexts.

LO 2: Reflect on their individual performance, behaviour and experience in education and/or employment.

Practicalities: Referencing, presenting and submitting your work

Please see the module and programme handbook for information on the standard referencing style,
assessment requirements and process for submitting your work.

1. You are required to include in-text citations and full references when you are using LSST lecture
materials or any other resources.
2. The work you submit for assessment must be properly referenced – a guide to Harvard
referencing can be found on LSST Connect clicking on this link or as defined in the Cite them Right
Online: https://www.citethemrightonline.com/category-list?docid=CTRHarvard
3. Follow academic writing guidelines below.
o The text should be 1.5 line spaced.
o Font should be Arial 12.
o The word count for this essay is 1000 words, + or – 10%. This means that the final word count
must be within the range 900-1100 words. Front cover, and reference list are not included in
the final word count. You must indicate your final word count on the cover page.
4. Follow submission guidelines.
o Written work for this assignment should be saved and submitted as a Word document
(.docx) or as a .pdf file. If other file formats are used, these may not be compatible with
Turnitin.
o Written work for this assignment should be submitted through the LSST Connect submission
link on the module homepage.

Confidentiality

You should maintain and respect confidentiality in relation to the protection of personal, technical and/or
commercial information of a sensitive nature in your assessed work.
For further information and guidance, please see your programme handbook.

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Academic integrity

Academic integrity means taking responsibility for your own work.

When you submit an assignment, you are making a declaration that it is your own work and that you have
acknowledged the contribution of others and their ideas in its development (for example, by referencing
them appropriately).
For further information and guidance, please see the University website: https://www.bnu.ac.uk/current-
students/registry-helpdesk-and-academic-advice/academic-integrity-and-misconduct

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Assessment Criteria Academic Year 2024-25

0-29 (F) – 30-39 E – 40-49 (D) 50-59 (C) 60-69 (B) 70-79 (A) 80-100 (A+)
Fail Marginal fail Pass Pass Pass Pass Pass
Not successful Below required Satisfactory Good Very Good Excellent Outstanding
standard
Criterion 1: Lack of clarity Marginal clarity Satisfactory Good clarity and Very good clarity Excellent clarity Outstanding
Effective and coherence in and coherence in clarity and coherence in and coherence in and coherence in clarity and
Communication writing. Ideas are writing. Ideas are coherence in writing. Ideas are writing. Ideas are writing. Ideas are coherence in
Skills (LO1) disorganised and poorly organised writing. Ideas are generally organised and well-organised writing. Ideas are
illogical. Very and lack logical somewhat organised and logical. Uses and presented presented
35% limited flow. Limited organised but logical. Uses appropriate logically. Uses logically and
vocabulary and vocabulary and may lack logical appropriate vocabulary and varied fluently. Uses
This should poor sentence sentence flow. Basic vocabulary and varied sentence vocabulary and sophisticated
include evidence structures. structures. vocabulary and sentence structures. Few complex vocabulary and
of: Numerous Frequent sentence structures. Some grammatical, sentence sentence
grammatical, grammatical, structures. grammatical, spelling, or structures. structures. No
• Clarity, spelling, or spelling, or Noticeable spelling, or punctuation Minimal grammatical,
coherence punctuation punctuation grammatical, punctuation errors. grammatical, spelling, or
• Vocabulary errors. errors. spelling, or errors. spelling, or punctuation
and sentence punctuation punctuation errors.
structure errors. errors.
• Grammatical
accuracy.

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Assessment Criteria Academic Year 2024-25

0-29 (F) – 30-39 E – 40-49 (D) 50-59 (C) 60-69 (B) 70-79 (A) 80-100 (A+)
Fail Marginal fail Pass Pass Pass Pass Pass
Not successful Below required Satisfactory Good Very Good Excellent Outstanding
standard
Criterion 2: Lack of Marginal depth of Satisfactory Good depth of Very good depth Excellent depth Outstanding
Analytical Skills reflection. No reflection. depth of reflection. of reflection. of reflection. depth of
in Reflection breakdown of Minimal reflection. Somewhat Breaks down Effectively reflection.
(LO2) experiences breakdown of Limited breaks down experiences breaks down Thoroughly
using Driscoll experiences breakdown of experiences using Driscoll experiences breaks down
35% model. Provides using Driscoll experiences using Driscoll model. Provides using Driscoll experiences
no insights or model. Provides using Driscoll model. Provides relevant insights model. Provides using Driscoll
This should examples from minimal insights model. Provides some insights and examples detailed insights model. Provides
include evidence personal and examples limited insights and examples from personal and examples profound insights
of: experiences. from personal and examples from personal experiences. from personal and specific
• Depth of Demonstrates no experiences. from personal experiences. Demonstrates experiences. examples from
reflection self-awareness Demonstrates experiences. Demonstrates good self- Demonstrates personal
• Application of or critical limited self- Demonstrates some self- awareness and strong self- experiences.
Driscoll’s thinking. No awareness and basic self- awareness and critical thinking. awareness and Demonstrates
Model future actions critical thinking. awareness and critical thinking. Identifies future critical thinking. exceptional self-
• Indicating identified. No Minimal critical thinking. Identifies some actions with Outlines future awareness and
future actions coverage of identification of Limited future actions. some planning. actions with a critical thinking.
• Covering 3 selected future actions. identification of Covers at least Covers all three clear plan. Clearly outlines
sessions. sessions. Limited coverage future actions. two selected selected Covers all three future actions
of selected Covers at least sessions. sessions selected with a well-
sessions. one selected adequately. sessions structured plan.
session. thoroughly. Covers all three
selected
sessions
comprehensively.

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Assessment Criteria Academic Year 2024-25

0-29 (F) – 30-39 E – 40-49 (D) 50-59 (C) 60-69 (B) 70-79 (A) 80-100 (A+)
Fail Marginal fail Pass Pass Pass Pass Pass
Not successful Below required Satisfactory Good Very Good Excellent Outstanding
standard
Criterion 3: Lack of Marginal Satisfactory Good adherence Very good Excellent Outstanding
Adherence to adherence to adherence to adherence to to guidelines. adherence to adherence to adherence to
Assignment guidelines. Does guidelines. guidelines. Adheres to word guidelines. guidelines. guidelines.
Guidelines not follow word Significantly Deviates from count with minor Generally, Adheres to word Precisely follows
(LO1) count. Incorrect deviates from word count. Uses deviations. Uses adheres to word count. Uses BNU word count.
or missing word count. Poor BNU Harvard BNU Harvard count. Uses BNU Harvard Consistently
30% references. Does use of BNU referencing style referencing style Harvard referencing style uses BNU
not follow Journal Harvard with several with some errors. referencing style accurately. Harvard
This should Structure. Fails referencing style. errors. Basic Good adherence with few errors. Excellent referencing style
include evidence to meet Limited adherence to to Journal Very good adherence to accurately.
of: formatting adherence to Journal Structure. Meets adherence to Journal Outstanding
• Word count, requirements. Journal Structure. Meets most formatting Journal Structure. Meets adherence to
• Referencing Structure. Fails some formatting requirements Structure. Meets all formatting Journal
style, to meet several requirements. with minor most formatting requirements Structure. Meets
• Journal formatting deviations. requirements. with minor errors. all formatting
Structure requirements. requirements
• Formatting flawlessly.
requirements.