Assignment workshop: research, planning and referencing

This week’s topics

Assignment workshop: research, planning and referencing

1. Unpacking the assignment brief and criteria
2. Finding and evaluating sources
3. Planning and referencing
4. Academic writing workshop
5. Craap Test for evaluating sources
6. Citing and referencing using the Harvard Style
7. The project brief

What you will be able to do

• 1.1 Explain why business organisations need to record financial transactions.
• 1.2 Describe how the recording of financial transactions meets the needs of the organisation’s internal and external stakeholders.
• 2.1 Describe principal source documents and Books of Prime (Original) Entry used to record financial transactions.
• 2.2 Prepare principal source documents and Books of Prime (Original) Entry for business transactions.
• 3.1 Differentiate between capital and revenue expenditure and income.
• 3.2 Describe the accounting approaches utilised for items of capital and revenue expenditure and income.
• 3.3 Evaluate the impact on profit and asset valuations of incorrect management of capital and revenue expenditure and income.

Activity

Start with this week’s 4 videos, then: Plan the unit assignment against every criterion; source and reference the evidence.

Study materials

Videos

• Academic writing workshop · YouTube · University of Staffordshire Student Life · 14 min · for registered students
• Craap Test for evaluating sources · YouTube · Talking Libraries and Books · 7 min · for registered students
• Citing and referencing using the Harvard Style · YouTube · UCDLibrary · 7 min · for registered students
• The project brief · Oak National Academy, Key Stage 4 (GCSE level) · for registered students

Further resources

• Writing for Success, ch. 8.1–8.3: Prewriting, outlining and drafting · PDF · Saylor Academy, textbook chapter; pp. 281–318 · for registered students
• Evaluating Information: Applying the CRAAP Test · PDF · Other, report · for registered students
• Harvard Referencing quick guide 2025 (York St John University) · PDF · Other, report · for registered students