The course objectives met by this assignment include

Industry
research paper 1 – second assignment specification

Due date:	See your study Desk
Value:	35%
Structure:	Industry research paper

Objectives copy document of objectives

The course objectives met by this assignment include:

• Course
specifications are available online from the USQ website
<http://www.usq.edu.au/course/specification/>. Always check the website
for the latest version.

Overview

This assessment item requires you to use
the two organisations from your preliminary work (first assignment). You have provided a profile of these
organisations. This now forms a base for
the next assessment. Taking into consideration the reasons why you selected these
organisations that you described in your preliminary work, you now need to
describe business communication network-related elements in your research paper.

Background

In the first assignment you already
provided information what you should consider about the potential set up of
these organisations network-related elements, including the size and type of
organisation.

Using the course material you are now
required to make further assumptions and write an industry research paper that
will describe the business communications and business systems relying on the network-related
elements of these two organisations.
While the textbook provides you with technical information of network
operation, you need to take the higher level view of how the networks can
provide and help the management of the organisations. You need to differentiate the use of the networks
between these two organisations. A larger organisation would have more
complexity due to the factors outlined in the first assignment specifications.
A smaller organisation may not have the necessary infrastructure as one would
expect.

You need to familiarise yourself further
with these two organisations and create an understanding how they would conduct
their business (email, network connectivity), local or global, small family
business. Consider that different types of businesses even in the same sector might
have different requirements. Determine if the organisation is owned by another
(this information may be available on the internet) and how that might have an
impact on the use and design of communications in the organisations. Some of
your assumptions can be based on what you may already know about an
organisation. As you do your research, online, journal articles, or books, use
the information from your reading to build support and arguments using Harvard
citing.

Once you have built up a picture of these
organisations network usage and design, you will then have integrated the
course material in your description while focusing on the specifics of each
organisation. You are not required to
contact anyone from these organisations.

Structure of industry research paper

Using the USQ library search facility to
locate suitable journal papers will provide you with a good understanding on
how a paper is written. The focus here
is not so much that you write a journal article, but that you write a document
that applies the structure given below, and address the issues outlined in this
specification. We are particularly
looking for you to apply the course material to your description of the
network-related elements. You need to show your understanding of the material,
while describing each organisations network.
This will result in unique content.

Organise your research paper in the
following way:

·
Title (you are required to
provide your paper’s title)

·
Your name and student number

·
Abstract (about 100 words)

·
Introduction

·
Body context (you could divide
into several sub-sections if required)

·
Conclusion

·
References.

The word-count limit for the introduction,
body, and conclusion of this paper is set at about 3,000 words. It is part of the assessment that you meet
this word count, as it will require you to address the specifications
succinctly. Use five (5) or more
resources for you Harvard in text citing and reference list. Please ensure that you apply the format
correctly, and for your convenience, links to resources have been provided.

Submission requirements

Submit your assignment into EASE. Please note that the link will be visible to
you only when the assignment is due. Do not email the essay to the course
leader. If you are unable to upload, notify the course leader of the issue so
that it may be resolved so that you can upload the assessment.

Marking criteria for research paper 1

Student name:
___________________________ Student number: ____________________

Marks

Structured development
of research paper

Logical flow leading the reader from start
to finish on a clear path of addressing the assignment; clear identification
and description of network usage; clearly differentiation of networks between
the two organisations as outlined in the specification.

Meets all the requires for this objective	15-20
Good work – minor issue	10-15
Requires more work	5-10
Very poor effort	0-5
Comment:

/30

Depth of research/
critical reflection

Reason to support findings: critical
evaluation and analysis of the two organisations networks usingbook, journal
article, report, news article on the internet); using sources to support
description of thenetwork-related elements of these two
organisations.

Meets all the requires for this objective	15-20
Good work – minor issue	10-15
Requires more work	5-10
Very poor effort	0-5
Comment:

/30

Understanding of key
ideas and concepts

Understood the course material; able to
identify key ideas and concept within a real life scenario of issues; able to
explain an issue with the use of key ideas and concepts; able to relate own
experience to course material and issue by introducing own perspective; showing judgement by incorporating
objective view of how implementing a concept may not work and providing suggestions
on how this could be overcome.

Meets all the requires for this objective	15-20
Good work – minor issue	10-15
Requires more work	5-10
Very poor effort	0-5
Comment:

/30

Evidence of support

Citing and referencing: Correct format used for
within text Harvard citing; correct format used for Harvard reference list;
used more than five (5) sources (book, journal article, report, news article
on the internet) in addition to the course text book.

Meets all the requires for this objective	15-20
Good work – minor issue	10-15
Requires more work	5-10
Very poor effort	0-5
Comment:

/10

Total

/100

General Comments:

Preliminary work for two industry research
papers

Due date:	See your Study Desk
Value:	5%
Structure:	Essay

Objectives

The course objectives met by this
assignment include:

• Course specifications are available online from the USQ website <http://www.usq.edu.au/course/specification/>.
Always check the website for the latest version.

Overview

This assessment item requires you to find
two organisations that you will be using for the other assignments in this
course.

In your essay, you need to provide information
about these two organisations you selected.

Background

You are required to find two organisations:
one large organisation with more than 5,000 employees and one small-to-medium
organisation with between 50-1,000 employees.

The size of these organisations is
important as their current and future requirements would be different. When you are selecting these organisations,
consider their footprint, such as are they operating within one country only,
are they branching out to another country or are planning to do so, or are they
already operating on a global scale?
Other points you need to consider at this point is the type of business
(pharmaceutical versus distribution for example). You may find some information on their
history that provides some clues. You could look at their mission, vision,
values statements. An organisation may
be small now (they might have just started) and has the potential to grow. Some
organisations pride themselves to be a family business and their expansion
would encompass minimal risks, while large conglomerate organisations may have
more assets to take larger risks. Some
organisations are owned by another organisation, and this may impact their
current and future situation differently.

Please do not contact any organisation to
obtain information. There are security
reasons why this information is not availably publicly. What you need to do for your assignments it
to use the technical aspect of this course to make your own assumptions and
deductions from the information that is publicly available. Then translate this into a managerial view.

In addition, it would be more beneficial and
workable to select two organisations that do not have the same product or type
or operation. This will assist you in
the requirements of the other assignments in this course.

General Note

For all assignments in this course you are
expected to write clearly, with the relevant theme of the specific assignment
requirements flowing from one point to another, and succinctly addressing the
issues within the word limit given to you.
This is a normal expectation when you work in the industry, and
therefore also of this course.

Essay

In your essay for this assignment you need
to provide the following for each organisation:

describe
these two organisations
explain
why you have selected them
provide
the URL of the web sites
describe
their main product(s)
provide
the number of employees
details
about their presence (global, local)
type of
business (family owned, multinational)

One last point to consider is that in your
other assignments you will be looking at the organisations requirements for the
technologies we are covering in this course.
Not how an organisation is going to provide this technology to their
customers – a big difference to be aware of when selecting your organisations.

Structure

The structure of this assignment is essay
type – please refer to the communications handbook for guidelines.

Please note that all assessment items in
this course must adhere to the correct Harvard specifications for in text citing
and reference list. For this purpose
links have been provided to you on the study desk. However, you can consult the
library web site for further details and clarifications. It is optional to use Endnote, and the links
are provided to you on the study desk for the course. Endnote is of great assistance to get the
citing and referring correct. However,
you can do this without Endnote, but you need to make sure that the format of
in text citing and the format of the list of references are correct according
to the Harvard guidelines.

Submission requirements

Marking criteria
for Preliminary work (essay)

Student name: ___________________________ Student number:
____________________

Marks

Applied skills

/20

Essay contains the requested information; good reasoning has been
applied to the selection process and been clearly expressed in the essay.

Meets all the requirements	15-20
Good work – minor issue	10-15
Requires more work	5-10
Very poor effort	0-5
Comment:

Structured development of essay

Clear and succinct communication;
logical flow through the essay leading the reader from start to finish on a
clear path of addressing the assignment requirements

Meets all the requirements	15-20
Good work – minor issue	10-15
Requires more work	5-10
Very poor effort	0-5
Comment:

/20

Depth of research/ critical reflection

Assumptions and deductions made in
the essay reflect the understanding of the course material and matches the
selected type of organisation

Meets all the requirements	15-20
Good work – minor issue	10-15
Requires more work	5-10
Very poor effort	0-5
Comment:

/20

Understanding of key ideas and concepts

The essay reflects the ability to relate own research to course
materials and issues by reflecting own perspectives.; showing judgement
by incorporating objective view of how implementing a concept may not work
and providing suggestions on how this could be overcome.

Meets all the requirements	15-20
Good work – minor issue	10-15
Requires more work	5-10
Very poor effort	0-5
Comment:

/20