Convincing Features
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| Up to and including 15% | 5 marks |
| 15% to 30% | 10 marks |
| Above 30% | Assignment will be marked zero. |
| Assignment Question:
Select TWO (2) international newspaper articles and write a commentary on each of these article. The selected articles must NOT be any older than 1st January 2020 and must concern on macroeconomic issues in any country of your choice. Your commentary should meet the following requirements: a. Provide a concise summary of what is reported in the newspaper. Along with the concise summary provide the context or background as well. b. Make use of all relevant economic theories or economic concepts that are included in the syllabus of Principle of Macroeconomics – TECO 1123 (Check the course plan) c. The use of diagrams and figures to illustrate economic theories or economic concepts is necessary. d. Provide a conclusion. You can conclude by either agreeing or disagreeing about the issues concerned and justify accordingly or you can make a forecast on how the issue will develop based on the economic theories or concepts that you have employed. |
Further Explanations:
Students are encouraged to cite relevant articles in their assignment. Harvard referencing system should be used to reference their work and citations (if any).
Further information on Harvard referencing can be obtained from the below:
http://libweb.anglia.ac.uk/referencing/harvard.htm
Each commentary is marked out of 25%. The assignment requires TWO (2) news articles and one commentary for each. Therefore, total marks for this Group Assignment is 50%, which will constitute 25% of your total assessment marks.
| Key components
of this assignment |
Performance on this component | ||||
| 4-7 | 2-3 | 0-1 | Marks | ||
| Introduction
(7 marks) |
• Provide a concise yet comprehensive synopsis on the issues. Questions like what happened? When happened? Where happened? – Must be answered • Provide arguments to emphasize the importance of the topics that the issues touched on |
• Concise synopsis provided but not sufficiently comprehensive and the importance of the topics that the issues touched on is vaguely argued | • Synopsis provided not comprehensive and importance of the topics that the issues touched on is
vaguely argued |
/7
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| 10 – 13 | 6 – 9 | 3 – 5 | 0 – 2 | ||
| Content (13 marks) | • Analysis on the topic is well supported with relevant economic theories or economic concepts.
• Appropriate diagrams and figures are used to illustrate economic theories or economic concepts. • Facts and statistics are provided to support |
• Analysis on the topic is well supported with relevant economic theories or economic concepts.
• Appropriate diagrams and figures are used to illustrate economic theories or economic concepts. • But no facts and statistics are provided as support |
• Analysis on the topic is well supported with relevant economic theories or economic concepts.
• Either no appropriate diagrams and figures are used for illustration OR analysis not drawn to Malaysia context
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• Analysis on the topic is well supported with relevant economic theories or economic concepts.
• No diagrams or figures are provided for illustration and topics are not analysed within Malaysia context. |
/13 |
| 4 – 5 | 2 – 3 | 0 – 1 | ||
| Conclusion (5 marks) | • A brief recall is provided on what has been discussed or achieved in the commentary
(1 or 2 sentences is sufficient) • Appropriate opinion or position is taken by either agreeing or disagreeing on the matters highlighted by the issues in the articles or forecast / prediction is made about the development of the issues. |
• Appropriate opinion or position is taken by either agreeing or disagreeing on the matters highlighted by the issues in the articles or forecast / prediction is made about the development of the issues.
• No summary or recall on what has been achieved in the commentary
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• No appropriate opinion or position is taken.
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/5 |
| Total Marks | /25 |
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