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 Identify where to find case law.
• 1.2 Explain how to read case law.
• 1.3 Analyse the difference between citing judicial legal reasoning and citing legal facts of a case.
• 2.1 Identify where to find legislation.
• 2.2 Explain how to read statute.
• 2.3 Describe how to cite statute.
• 2.4 Research a statute and explain the influences that impacted on its progress into law.
• 3.1 Describe how to plan and structure various types of legal assignment.
• 3.2 Assess the role of legal citation in academic assessments.
• 3.3 Explain the need to apply the command verb in academic writing.
• 4.1 Describe the range of approaches to learning and study used.
• 4.2 Explain the importance of independent learning skills.
• 4.3 Identify and record development needs and specify priority areas for development.
• 4.4 Develop a plan for further improvement.

Activity

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

Study materials