Assignment workshop: drafting, feedback and improvement

This week’s topics

Assignment workshop: drafting, feedback and improvement

1. Drafting against the criteria
2. Tutor and peer feedback
3. Improving the final submission
4. Feedback and peer review
5. Things To Do Before You Hand In Your Assignment
6. Feedback and evaluation

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 3 videos, then: Draft the assignment, get feedback and improve it before submission.

Study materials

Videos

• Feedback and peer review · YouTube · Akademiskt skrivande/Academic Writing · 6 min · for registered students
• Things To Do Before You Hand In Your Assignment · YouTube · University of Staffordshire Student Life · 22 min · for registered students
• Feedback and evaluation · Oak National Academy, Key Stage 4 (GCSE level) · for registered students

Further resources

• Writing Guide, 3.5: Peer review and using feedback · PDF · OpenStax, textbook chapter; pp. 92–94 · for registered students
• Writing for Success, ch. 8.1–8.3: Prewriting, outlining and drafting · PDF · Saylor Academy, textbook chapter; pp. 281–318 · for registered students