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In a 1500-2000 word essay outline 2-3 aspects of creativity and critically analyze how these aspects of creativity have been applied in a specific occupation or profession of your choice. Use real world examples to support your analysis.

DETAILS:

You must write a draft of your essay to hand in during your tutorial in week 8. You need to make two copies of your draft to bring to your tutorial in week 9 to use in peer review with one of your colleagues from your tutorial group.

Week 8: Essay Draft  (Formative/ Summative)

DUE: Week 8: Hand your draft to your tutor in your Week 8 tutorial.

Week 11: Essay (Summative)

DUE: Thursday May 14, 2015  at Assignment Minder KG,

R Block, Level 2 of the Library at Kelvin Grove Campus.

Include the following in your folder when you submit

1.    Your Essay with 1.5 spacing between the lines

2.    Your reference list

(a) in alphabetical order

(b) single spacing for each entry

3.    Your Essay Draft (from Week 8) with your tutor’s comments page.

4.    The QCD111 Essay Criteria Sheet

As well as submitting the hard copy to Assignment Minder, you will need to upload your final essay digitally to the matching software tool called Turn-it-in on BB before the due date.

NB: QUT Policy on  Late Submission of Assessment Item.

From Semester 1, 2014 if you don’t hand in your assignment by the due date, it won’t be marked and you’ll receive a grade of 1 or 0%.

If special circumstances prevent you from completing your assignment by the due date, you can apply for an extension online only at

http://external-apps.qut.edu.au/studentservices/concession/

SUMMATIVE TASK DESCRIPTIONS

1.0 ORAL ASSESSMENT : Lead a Seminar

The first summative assessment is to lead a 12-15 minute seminar discussion with your tutorial group during weeks 6-8.  In your seminar you need to:

•    explain and discuss with the class briefly what creativity means to you

(using your own ideas AND published sources from a variety of perspectives)

•    identify the importance of creativity  and how it has impacted on a chosen occupation or professional area (Use real world example/s)

•    accurately acknowledged all your sources with citations on each slide and a reference list as the final PPT slide

•    use cleverly designed and creative power point slides and tutorial activities to promote discussion during your seminar

•    read and use the criteria sheet to help you prepare for your seminar.

•    make sure this is NOT a lecture style “seminar”.  Use questions and activities to promote genuine interaction among the group

•    The topic this semester is creativity so don’t be afraid to include a relevant creative activity  as part of leading your seminar

Remember as the leader of a seminar you must show you are knowledgeable about the topic AND you must promote genuine discussion/conversation by asking/answering interesting and provocative questions and/ or creating an activity to promote interaction among your tutorial group throughout the 12-15 minutes of your seminar in tutorial of week 6-8 as allocated.

2.0 WRITTEN ASSESSMENT (Summative) – Academic Essay

“There is no doubt that creativity is the most important human resource of all. Without creativity, there would be no progress, and we would be forever repeating the same patterns.” (De Bono 2009)

In a 1500-2000 word essay outline 2-3 aspects of creativity and critically analyse how these aspects of creativity have been applied in a specific occupation or profession of your choice. Use real world examples to support your analysis.

You must write a draft of your essay to hand in during your tutorial in week 8. You need to make two copies of your draft to bring to your tutorial in week 9 to use in peer review with one of your colleagues from your tutorial group.

Week 8: Essay Draft  (Formative/ Summative)

DUE: Week 8: Hand your draft to your tutor in your Week 8 tutorial.

Week 11: Essay (Summative)

DUE: Thursday May 14, 2015  at Assignment Minder KG,

R Block, Level 2 of the Library at Kelvin Grove Campus.

You will need to hand in a folder with

1. Your Assignment Minder Cover Sheet attached.

2. Your Essay with 1.5 spacing between the lines

3. Your reference list

(a) in alphabetical order

(b) single spacing for each entry

4. Your Essay Draft (from Week 8) with your tutor’s comments page.

5. The QCD111 Essay Criteria Sheet

As well as submitting the hard copy to Assignment Minder, you will need to upload your final essay digitally to Turn-it-in on BB before the due date.

NB: QUT Policy on  Late Submission of Assessment Item.

From Semester 1, 2014 if you don’t hand in your assignment by the due date, it won’t be marked and you’ll receive a grade of 1 or 0%.

If special circumstances prevent you from completing your assignment by the due date, you can apply for an extension at http://external-apps.qut.edu.au/studentservices/concession/

NB

If you don’t have an approved extension, you should submit the work you’ve completed by the due date and it will be marked against the assessment criteria.

3.0 END SEMESTER EXAM (Summative)

The written exam at the end of semester in Week 14 will have two questions

•    Question 1 will require you to write a short academic essay incorporating quotes and paraphrases from short readings provided in the exam. The exam essay question will be related to the topic of your QCD111 seminar and essay.

•    Question 2 will ask you to write a reflective paragraph describing how your real world experience relates to the semester topic which you have  been studying.

Read and use the BB site and the ESE criteria sheet to help you prepare for your exam.

QCD111 Oral Seminar Criteria Sheet  NAME:

Criteria    7    6    5    4      3                          2                               1

Content and structure    In your seminar you:    In your seminar you:    In your seminar you:    In your seminar you:    In your seminar you:    In your seminar you

Content

quality

Organisation

Language choices

prepared highly relevant content, with a well developed train of thought  and consistently modified it to suit the audience’s level of understanding, without oversimplifying, and correctly acknowledged sources     prepared relevant content, developed a train of thought and modified it to suit the audience’s level of understanding, without oversimplifying, and correctly  acknowledged sources     prepared content (mostly relevant) with some flow of ideas and made some modifications to suit the audience’s level of understanding, and acknowledged sources     provided some relevant content with partial development, had some suitable modifications, attempted acknowledgement of sources    provided mostly irrelevant  content minimal  modification  very limited  development of ideas and poor or acknowledgement     provided superficial or irrelevant  content with little or no modification  or development of ideas and poor or no acknowledgement

effectively organised coherent, relevant content to meet the required timeframe, provided an introduction with an interesting stimulus or ‘hook’, body with very effective and creative interaction , comprehensive summary  memorable close      concisely organised the relevant content to meet the required timeframe, provided an introduction with an stimulus or ‘hook’, body with effective interaction

summary  and obvious close     organised relevant content to meet the required timeframe, provided an introduction with attempt at ‘hook , body with some interaction some summarising conclusion

Some organisation of mostly relevant content may have met the required timeframe, and followed the conventional structure introduction, body with little discussion and limited conclusion     presented irrelevant content may have been disjointed;

did not meet the required timeframe

had limited/stilted discussion ineffective interaction. Very little summary/ conclusion        presented irrelevant or  disconnected chunks;

substantially over/ under time

had very limited/stilted discussion /no interaction. No summary/conclusion

clearly conveyed the intended meaning to the audience, by making effective and accurate choices of syntax, grammar and vocabulary     clearly conveyed the intended meaning to the audience, by making mostly effective and accurate choices of syntax, grammar and vocabulary

conveyed the intended meaning to the audience, by making mostly accurate choices of syntax, grammar and vocabulary

partially conveyed the intended meaning to the audience, by making some accurate choices of syntax, grammar and vocabulary     conveyed limited meaning to the audience based on the choices of syntax, grammar and vocabulary     Misunderstanding occurred based on the choices of syntax, grammar and vocabulary

Delivery    7 In your seminar you:    6 In your seminar you:    5 In your seminar you:    4 In your seminar you:    3 In your seminar you:    2/1 In your seminar you

voice

NVC    assisted the audience’s understanding of the words through the use of a clearly audible voice with accurate pronunciation

Very effectively used a variety of tone, pace, pause to enhance audience understanding and promoted and maintained audience interest  and interaction

maintained eye contact, used effective gestures and facial expressions with an open, confident posture

assisted the audience’s understanding of the words through the use of a clearly audible voice with mostly accurate pronunciation

Displayed a variety of tone, pace, and pause to aid audience understanding and maintain audience interest and interaction

maintained eye contact, used suitable gestures and facial expressions with an open posture

allowed the audience to understand the words through the use of an audible voice and mostly accurate pronunciation

Generated some audience interest

and interaction  and understanding through some tonal and pace changes

made some eye contact and used gestures, with varied  facial expressions and mixed closed and open posture

allowed the audience to partially understand the words through the use of an audible voice and some accurate pronunciation

Displayed minor changes in tone and pace  which generated sporadic audience interest

occasionally made eye contact ; used some gestures, read script or slides at times with and closed posture    Volume/

pronunciation meant that the audience worked hard to  hear or understand the words

Generated limited audience interest/interaction  mostly using a monotone and limited  change in pace /pause

made limited eye contact; read from a script/slides most of the time with a mostly fixed facial expression and closed posture    Volume/pronunciation  meant that the audience could not hear or understand the words

Created little/no interest/interaction : little no  variety in tone or pace

Had little / no eye contact, read from a script/slides with a fixed facial expression and closed posture

Inter-

action       asked a range of questions/created interaction selected to suit the content, audience and purpose

responded to the audience in a confident, polished manner, with a conversational tone, responses clarified content and/or were related to real world examples. Successful interaction    asked some questions/ selected activity to suit the content, audience and purpose

responded to the audience in a confident manner, with a conversational tone, partially clarified the content and or related response to real world examples.  Sound interaction     asked questions/chose an activity  mostly suited to content, audience and purpose

responded to the audience in a formal manner; listened to the audience’s comments  and responded briefly.

Some interaction     occasionally

asked questions about the content

minimally acknowledged responses in a formal and/ or indifferent manner

Created minimal interaction    asked few, simple or irrelevant question(s);

Limited (or unhelpful) reaction to responses

Negligible or token interaction occurred     asked no relevant  question(s);

did not respond/responded negatively to audience

Little /no interaction OR

the audience took responsibility for interaction that occurred

7    6    5    4    3    2                      1

visuals    provided interesting, well designed ,creative and relevant supporting materials (PowerPoint) which enhanced the seminar and consistently assisted the audience’s understanding  and interaction     provided mostly well designed, creative and relevant  supporting materials (PowerPoint) which assisted the audience’s understanding and interaction.      provided relevant PowerPoint materials that supported the seminar and mostly  assisted the audience’s understanding and interaction     provided basic PowerPoint materials related to the topic little support for interaction     provided PowerPoint materials: some may have been related to the topic, did not support interaction     provided no or ineffectual PowerPoint, materials: may have been unrelated to the topic, and did not support interaction

GRADE

Overall comment

QCD111 Essay Criteria Sheet    NAME:

7                           6    5    4    3    2                                        1

Generic structure

Academic Essay    Introduction has well written relevant general statements, narrowing of the topic and a thesis statement which relates to the topic and accurately outlines the essay

Body paragraphs begin with very clear, well written, specific and relevant topic sentences which match the topics in the thesis statement and are highly unified, strongly coherent and on topic.

Conclusion has a strong summary and full sense of closure.    Introduction has relevant general statements, narrowing of the topic and a thesis statement which outlines the essay

Body paragraphs begin with, specific and relevant topic sentences which match the topics in the thesis statement and are unified, coherent and on topic.

Conclusion has a summary and sense of closure.    Introduction has some relevant general introductory statements some attempt to narrow the topic and provides a general thesis statement

Body paragraphs begin with clear relevant topic sentences which match the topics in the thesis statements and are unified, coherent and mostly on topic

Conclusion has a summary and closing statement

Introduction is partly structured with a sense of moving form the broad to the particular and has a limited thesis statement.

Body paragraphs have some relevant topic sentences, are mostly unified and coherent and generally on topic.

Conclusion has a partial summary, and some sense of closure    The broad  topic may be mentioned .the intro lacks formal structure. No relevant thesis: direction of the essay not clear

Body paragraphs rarely begin with relevant topic sentences and are not completely unified and coherent or not on topic.

Conclusion has limited summary , and /or little closure

Irrelevant, extraneous material not structured as an introduction

No sign of topic sentences/not on the topic.

Few signs of unity and coherence.

Conclusion not obvious

Content

Development of ideas     Is highly relevant and skilfully connected to the topic throughout. Clearly develops relevant ideas in a provocative or insightful manner. Shows the information collected has been evaluated and synthesised into a cohesive and intelligent examination of the topic.

Draft included and  expert use made of feedback /independently improved on the draft    Is relevant and skilfully connected to the topic

Develops relevant ideas and shows the information collected has been evaluated and synthesised into a clear examination of the topic.

Draft included and the essay has obviously improved in line with feedback on the draft    Shows clear understanding of the topic.

Mostly demonstrates synthesis-level thinking. The information collected is drawn together to produce a logical overview of the topic.

Draft included and  use made of feedback or     Generally linked to what the questions asked.

Content is often descriptive, mostly recounting ideas, analysis and synthesis of relevant content in some parts of the essay.

Draft included and feedback used in some parts of the essay.     Most content does not answer the question/shows some misunderstanding of the question /sources used.

Limited development of ideas or analysis and synthesis of relevant content is evident.

Draft included     Shows misuse/ misinterpretation of ideas

Content has little/ no relationship to the question little/no analysis or synthesis of relevant content

No draft included and/or  no evidence of using feedback from the draft

Academic conventions

Referencing and language

Support is well chosen for the topic. A wide variety of quality sources are skilfully used and integrated.

Expert paraphrasing accurately represents ideas and enhances the point being made in relation to the question

Highly accurate and appropriate word selection, grammar, punctuation and spelling.

All referencing conventions are accurately used and consistently presented.

Support is well chosen for the topic. A variety of sources are skilfully integrated.

Paraphrasing accurately represents ideas and supports paragraph development

Accurate and appropriate word selection, grammar, punctuation and spelling

Referencing conventions accurate and consistent    Support is relevant, mostly effectively used and correctly integrated

Paraphrasing mostly works to develop relevant ideas

Appropriate word selection  mostly accurate grammar ,punctuation and spelling

Referencing conventions are mostly accurate

Some support is relevant, may be limited in scope and/or not always successfully integrated

Paraphrasing is adequate

Some over quoting

Word selection, grammar, punctuation and spelling are adequate

Some referencing conventions adhered to

Support is poorly chosen, poorly integrated, very narrow in scope or irrelevant

Over quoting and/or poor quality when  paraphrasing

Language errors cause confusion OR Quality of language has only been assessed on parts of the essay composed by the student

Referencing  is not complete /some mismatch and/or not accurately presented

Little/no successful use of relevant quality support

Paraphrasing poor or not done. Mostly quotes.

Errors in word  grammar, punctuation are so numerous that little or no meaning can be made OR

there is little/no evidence of student’s own composition

Citing and referencing of supporting evidence is poor

GRADE

QCD111 End Semester Exam Criteria Sheet   NAME:

Q1    7    6    5    4    3    2                                                   1

Introduction and Conclusion    Introduction has  very  clear relevant general statements, narrowing of the topic and a thesis statement which accurately outlines the essay and provides signal of the sub topics to be made

Conclusion has a very strong summary and full closure    Introduction has clear relevant general statements, narrowing of the topic and a thesis statement which outlines the essay and provides signal of the sub topics to be made

Conclusion has a strong summary and full closure    Introduction has some general introductory statements, some attempt to narrow the topics and a partial thesis with sub topics mentioned.

Conclusion has a summary and closing statement    Introduction is partly structured with a sense of moving from the broad to the particular

Limited thesis statement provided

Conclusion has a partial summary and some sense of closure    The broad  topic is mentioned but the intro lacks formal structure

The direction and content of the essay has not been made clear.

Conclusion has very limited summary and/or little closure.    Irrelevant ,extraneous material not structured as an introduction

Not attempted

Conclusion has very limited or no summary and little closure.

Body

paragraphs     Begin with a very clear, well written, specific and highly relevant topic sentences which  match the topics in the thesis statement

Are highly unified and coherent with ideas which are very relevant to the question explicitly linked and show strong analytical/critical thinking

Support material is very well chosen to support the point being made , expertly  integrated, and shows a very well balanced ratio of paraphrase to direct quotes

Begin with a clear, well written and relevant topic sentences which  match the topics in the thesis statement

Are unified and coherent with ideas which are relevant to the question explicitly linked and show some analytical/critical thinking

Support material supports  the point being made , correctly integrated, and shows a  well balanced ratio of paraphrase to direct quotes    Begin with relevant topic sentences which match the topic in the thesis statements

Are mostly unified and coherent with ideas which are mostly relevant to the question, mostly  logically developed  and clearly linked

Support material is correctly integrated and a balance of direct quotes to paraphrase is mostly achieved    Mostly begin with relevant topic sentences

Are mostly unified and coherent with Ideas which are usually relevant to the question, show some development  and linking

Some support material has been used but it not always well chosen or integrated, generally remains descriptive and some overquoting may have occurred    Rarely begin with relevant topic sentences

Are not completely unified or coherent, contain irrelevant material show little development /link to question or subtopic

Support is mostly descriptive and/or may be limited or not relevant to the point or subtopic, poorly integrated

Over quoting may have occurred     No sign of topic sentences

Few signs of unity and coherence

Simplistic/undeveloped or irrelevant ideas

Little /no evidence of well chosen relevant support- Little /no integration or development of ideas or mostly direct quotes

Paraphrasing and Referencing

Paraphrasing and Referencing

(cont)    Shows a very high level of understanding and integration of relevant support material. Highly sophisticated language use when summarising and paraphrasing.

Highly suitable direct quotes correctly punctuated with accurate in text citations

Reference list  is complete matches citations and is accurately presented    Shows a high level of understanding of, support material and integrating mechanisms. Sophisticated language use when summarising and paraphrasing.

Suitable direct quotes correctly punctuated with accurate in text citations

Reference list  is complete matches citations and is accurately presented    Shows moderate level of understanding of topic, and integration of support material.  Appropriate language use when summarising and paraphrasing.

Direct quotes are correctly punctuated and most in-text citations are accurate

Reference list  is complete matches citations and is mostly accurately presented    Shows some understanding of ideas in the support reading(s) Some weakness in paraphrasing

Direct quotes mostly  correctly punctuated most citations are incomplete

Reference list  is mostly complete matches citations and is mostly accurately presented    Uses some ideas not always the most relevant ones

Limited paraphrasing skills

Quotes: poorly chosen or may not be punctuated

In text citations not always present and /or are inaccurate

Reference list is not complete and/or not accurately presented    Few/no relevant ideas or use of readings

No paraphrasing of the reading provided and/ or any other support material.

Many unsuitable direct quotes without quotation marks and or ideas from exam readings used without acknowledgement

Referencing of supporting evidence is poor/not done

Language    Sophisticated use of words, accurate and complex syntax, grammar, accurate punctuation and spelling.     Accurate and appropriate word selection,  grammar, punctuation and spelling    Appropriate word selection Mostly accurate grammar, punctuation and spelling.

Word selection, grammar and punctuation and spelling mostly adequate

and appropriate.

Numerous language errors and /or

quality of language has only been assessed on parts of the essay composed by the student    Errors in word grammar, punctuation are so numerous that little or no meaning can be made OR many  parts of the essay are quoted/little/no evidence of student’s own composition

Question 2

Reflective paragraph    Clearly describes very specific experience (s) closely related to the topic in detail

Includes substantial relevant reflection on the experience Makes insightful comments linking  the experiences and the theory    Clearly describes specific experience (s) related to the topic in with some detail

Includes  relevant reflection on the experience

Makes logical  and relevant links with theory     Describes experience (s) related to the topic

Makes some basic reflection on the experience

Makes some logical  links with theory

Describes more generalised experience(s) mostly related to the topic

Comments about the experiences. Mentions some relevant theory    Description of experience is unclear or loosely related to the topic

Few additional comments made. No link to relevant theory     Minimal mention of an experience, or only a description of experience  little/no reflection or linked theory

Overall grade

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