Communication Skills Portfolio 2

Important: students who are not taking any of the supporting courses and, therefore, will not have the appropriate submission(s) for ENCN301, must contact the course coordinator by the end of Week 3, Term 1 to arrange an alternative submission(s) (see information below).

Notes: To pass this course, students must submit and pass all items required for ENCN301 (a non-submission will result in an overall Fail for the course). Also, students must receive an overall communication score of 5/10 (50%).

Submissions are electronic only and uploaded onto Learn into the appropriate drop boxes. All submissions must be named using the correct file name format: ‘SubmissionType-Userid-FamilyName (e.g., Client-klp33-Parrent). For resubmissions add -resub (1) to the end of the name. (e.g., Client-klp33-Parrent-resub.1).

It is expected that students alert the course coordinator if they are unable to submit a report on time or are not doing the course on which the report is based. It may be possible that a student can submit a different report if they are not enrolled in the appropriate courses. However, failure to submit a report without prior notification and approval will lead to a student failing ENCN301 and graduation being delayed as a result.

All students are required to keep a copy of all reports submitted to Portfolio and uploaded to Learn. Students must also download and keep a copy of all marking sheets returned to them throughout the year (keep a hard copy or download to flashdrive/computer). Please do not rely on access to Learn for submissions or results in case of a system failure. Remember to keep a Word copy, and not a PDF copy, to allow for editing of your work. Failure to keep a suitable copy of your work could result in having to rewrite the report in full.

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, whenever possible, students submit a designated report that is part of another course’s assessment. Note: due to various supporting course content it may not always be possible to submit the same report to ENCN301 and a modified assignment, requiring more effort, may be required for ENCN301. However, students are advised that the levels of writing and presentation standards for 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 Portfolio, we advise students to bring all their reports up to a high standard, using the CPG (3rd edition), in conjunction with the Portfolio template, so that they do not have to rewrite reports to submit for 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. Failure to use the template will result in the report not being marked. 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.

The course coordinator for ENCN301 is Dr Kim Parrent. Engineering oversight is provided by Dr Tonny de Vries. Students must address issues with their work as soon as possible. If there are specific issues or problems with a student’s writing ability or confusion over marking criteria, please advise the course coordinator when the problem arises, not at the end of the year. It is often too late to address problems at the end of the course. Please add “ENCN301” within the email subject line. Note that you are required to use your UC email account (e.g., Uclive). Emails from private email accounts (e.g., Gmail etc.,) will not be read/answered.