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. Craap Test for evaluating sources
5. The credibility of sources

What you will be able to do

• 1.1 Define what a contract is.
• 1.2 Outline how to make a legally binding offer and acceptance.
• 1.3 Identify how offer and acceptance may be withdrawn.
• 1.4 Explain how to enforce a contract.
• 1.5 Explain the terms invitation to treat and the intention to create legal relations.
• 2.1 Outline statutory express terms.
• 2.2 Explore how representation is different from a term.
• 2.5 Explore how terms may be implied in common law.
• 2.3 Explain how terms can be incorporated into a contract.
• 2.4 Explain contract conditions, warranties and innominate terms.
• 2.6 Evaluate the validity of exclusion clauses.
• 3.1 Outline various types of contractual mistakes.
• 3.2 Outline different types of misrepresentation.
• 3.3 Explain how a contract can be discharged.
• 3.4 Explain how lack of capacity, illegality and public policy may void a contract.
• 3.5 Summarise how undue influence and duress may void a contract.
• 4.1 Outline the effect that a breach has on a contract.
• 4.2 Describe the role of equitable remedies in contractual breach.
• 4.3 Discuss types of contract breach, including anticipatory and repudiatory breach.
• 4.4 Explain the meaning of damages in relation to contracts.
• 4.5 Analyse what remedies are available for breach of contract.

Activity

Start with this week’s 2 videos, then: Plan the unit assignment against every criterion; source and reference the evidence.

Study materials

Videos

• Craap Test for evaluating sources · YouTube · Talking Libraries and Books · 7 min · for registered students
• The credibility of sources · Oak National Academy, Key Stage 3 (lower secondary 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
• Harvard Referencing quick guide 2025 (York St John University) · PDF · Other, report · for registered students
• Evaluating Information: Applying the CRAAP Test · PDF · Other, report · for registered students