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 Analyse the mechanics of creating express trusts including the rights of beneficiaries.
• 1.2 Understand the functions of a trust device.
• 1.3 Evaluate and compare types of trust.
• 1.4 Evaluate the nature of respective rights and obligations of the parties trusts.
• 2.1 Analyse the context of commercial transaction into contract with trusts law and equity.
• 2.2 Evaluate the interactions between contract law and trusts law.
• 2.3 Explain how trusts are not bound up with contract.
• 2.4 Critically analyse how trustees limit their liabilities.
• 3.1 Evaluate the powers of a trustee operating a commercial trust and one operating a family trust.
• 3.2 Compare and contrast the rights and duties imposed upon a trustee of a commercial trust or family trust.
• 4.1 Analyse commercial expectations of a trust creditor.
• 4.2 Compare the law relating to trust creditors in other jurisdictions.

Activity

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

Study materials

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