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DistanceLearningCentre.comSTUDENT ASSESSMENT TAQ SHEET
COURSE: Access to Higher Education Diploma
SUBJECT: Study Skills
UNIT TITLE: Writing for Academic Purposes
LEVEL: 3 (Ungraded)
CREDITS: 3
How to use this document
This document contains your Tutor Assessed Questions (TAQs) for this assessment, as well as
information about formatting your work (including word counts and references) and deadlines.
Although this is an ungraded assessment, we have also included indicative grade descriptors so
that you can begin to familiarise yourself with them.
Do not attempt to fill in this document. Please use the related Student Assessment Answer
Sheet to answer your TAQs.
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‘indicative content’ of the unit, as this may help you to
understand how you could meet specific assessment criteria.
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, IMPORTANT NOTE:
The podcasts in this unit are essential reading / listening in
order to complete this unit, please use them fully
Read through all the instructions below before you begin to
write anything.
We have produced a podcast to help you understand how to
approach this assessment, which can be accessed below:
YouTube- Writing for Academic Purposes Assessment Podcast
(You can find the Podcast transcript in the Appendix at the end of
this document)
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, Course: Access to Higher Education Diploma
Subject: Study Skills
Unit title: Writing for Academic Purposes
Level: 3 (Ungraded)
STUDENT ASSESSMENT TAQ SHEET
TAQs for this unit
Your Tutor Assessed Questions (TAQs) for this unit are shown below.
AIMS AND In this assessment you will plan, research and write an academic
OBJECTIVES essay using up-to-date and reliable research.
Your essay will be on a topic that relates to your intended career or
degree and that is topical and current.
You should choose ONE question/topic from the list of options
below:
NOTE:
Read through all the instructions below before you begin to
write anything, including the information on your Student
Assessment Answer Sheet.
ESSAY TITLES Built Environment:
• Discuss the importance of contract law in business and
construction.
• Discuss the impact of the economic cycle on the construction
industry.
• Can construction ever be sustainable?
Business / Finance / Economics:
• Has Amazon committed tax avoidance, or is it just good
accounting?
• Is tax a social obligation, or something for businesses to avoid at all
costs?
• Evaluate the importance of corporate governance in modern
business.
• What are the consequences of bribery and corruption? You should
focus on a specific case, or a specific example of bribery and
corruption in your essay.
• How can the ‘triple bottom line’ (3BL) help businesses to work
towards sustainability, and does it work in practice?
English:
• What are the causes and effects of the popularity of dystopian
fiction?
• Is English an ‘international language’?
• Why is it important to study literature?
• Why is global literacy important?
• Why is it important to diversify the texts studied in English
Literature?
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