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

What you will be able to do

• 1.1 Describe the OSI and TCP/IP networking models and their layers and compare them.
• 1.2 Explain how different TCP/IP network protocols enable communication across devices and networks.
• 1.3 Analyse protocols and protocol suites.
• 2.1 Describe the IP protocol.
• 2.2 Explain the role of network hardware components such as routers and switches.
• 2.3 Analyse the security measures used to secure communication across computer networks.
• 2.4 Evaluate mobile and wireless connection protocols and technologies.
• 3.1 Decide on a network topology that is best suited to a given application and setting.
• 3.2 Analyse different network topologies and their role in disparate communication settings.
• 3.3 Design appropriate addressing schemes for a particular network.
• 3.4 Evaluate the best choice of network hardware for a given network.

Activity

Plan the unit assignment against every criterion; source and reference the evidence.

Study materials

Further resources

• Writing Guide, 13.1: Government documents and archives · PDF · OpenStax Writing Guide with Handbook (2021), 13.1 on government documents, archives and evaluating sources, pp. 429–431 · for registered students
• College Success, 7.7: Information Literacy · PDF · OpenStax College Success (2020, updated 2023), 7.7: finding and judging information, pp. 219–225 · for registered students
• Everything online is a website: information format confusion in student citation behaviors · Open-access article · Greer (2018), Communications in Information Literacy. Students' confusion between journals, books, reports and websites. · for registered students