Communication Skills Portfolio 1

Workload

Some students will need very little time to meet our objectives and pass; other students will need many hours and use many more of our resources and methods of support. To minimise the workload for this programme, students submit a designated report that is part of another course’s assessment. However, students are advised that the levels of writing and presentation standards for Communications Portfolio are higher than other courses. It is required that students have read and followed the CPG (3rd edition) before submission. To reduce the time spent on Communications Portfolio we advise students to bring all their reports up to a high standard, using the CPG (3rd edition), in conjunction with the Communications Portfolio report template, so that they do not have to rewrite reports to submit for Communications Portfolio.

Students should spend time carefully proofreading their reports before submitting them. There is a template for the reports available on Learn. Students are required to use this. This template can be easily adapted for other reports, saving students’ time. To cut down on failure due to presentation issues, it is required that all students use this template, adapted for the appropriate report when preparing their reports for submission.

There are set tutorials that support the teaching of ENCN201.
Tutorials: a compulsory 60-minute Tutorial (Tutorial A) to go over the ‘short report’ assignment.
In addition to the set tutorial: all students who fail an item and need to resubmit must sign up for a one-on-one compulsory help session, this may be in-person or via Zoom, to assist with resubmission with the course coordinator before resubmitting. Full details on how to arrange this will be given early in Term 1.