IND/Assessment Two

Essay

Value: 50%
Length: 1500

Rationale

This is the major assessment task in this subject and completion of this tasks will develop your professional writing skills, focusing on writing and supporting arguments. You can apply feedback from assessment 1 relating to professional and respectful writing to improve your work. This task provides an opportunity for you to evaluate sources of information, synthesise ideas gained from academic texts and incorporate reference material in an appropriate manner. In this task, students will engage with history content; this provides a foundation for understanding contemporary Indigenous circumstances as explored in the next assessment.

The task addresses the following learning outcomes:

• explain the diversity of Indigenous Australian cultures both past and present Outcome;
• describe post-colonisation policies and practices and their impact on Indigenous Australian communities and families;
• demonstrate professional communication skills when working with Indigenous Australian peoples and communities

Task

Write an essay of 1500 words which addresses the following question:

In what ways have Indigenous Australian peoples resisted the non-Indigenous occupation of Australia and the policies imposed upon them?

Content requirement

• For the purposes of this essay, cover the period from 1770 to approximately 1970.

• Engaging with the key scholarly readings presented in this course , explain the following stages of Australia's shared history and discuss Indigenous Australian resistance in each:
  • the colonial frontier of Protection
  • Segregation
  • Stolen Generations

• Each era must include an example from an identified language group or person.

• The essay should be your own original work. This assessment task will be put through Turnitin to identify plagiarism.

Essay requirements

• This assignment is to be completed in essay format. Include an introduction, body paragraphs and conclusion.
• Develop an overall position and ensure each paragraph contains a specific point that is demonstrated and supported in the paragraph.

• Write in the third person; avoid the use of “I”.

• Resources and information relating to writing essays can be found at:

Reference requirements

• Use at least eight (8) reference sources in total.

• You must use a minimum of six (6) required or recommended readings from the modules.

• You must cite and reference two (2) additional sources that you have located yourself. These texts must be of academic standard, such as a journal article, text book, text book chapter or conference paper proceeding. Assess the quality of content in web sources very carefully. In general, website references are unlikely to provide reliable, researched information suitable for this task.

• Do not reference Creative Spirits, Wikipedia or Skwirk/Red Apple as these are unreliable sources.

• Do not cite or reference the module. You may cite and reference the readings linked to in the module. The written information contained in the modules are not academic sources and are not to be used in your essay.

• Use in-text citations to identify other people’s ideas and words. These in-text citations must follow the APA referencing style.

• Quotes must be in quotation marks and the in-text citation must include the page number.

Formal and respectful language requirements

• This assessment task must be in professional and formal language. This means there should be no abbreviations or slang.

• Care must be taken to avoid spelling, grammar and punctuation errors.

• Respectful and appropriate terminology must be used when referring to and writing about Indigenous Australian people and cultures.

Presentation

• Assessment tasks should be submitted on EASTS as a Microsoft Word document. Do not submit as a PDF document.
• The first page should contain your name, subject name, word count and due date. Please use 12 point font and avoid the use of fancy templates with added colour or graphics
• Line spacing should be double spacing.
• The assessment tasks should be within +/- 10% of the word limit. The word count is taken from the first word to the last word and includes quotes. Quotes must comprise less than 10% of the total word count.
• Proof-read your work so that it is free of spelling, grammar and punctuation mistakes. Use language that is appropriate to academic and professional tasks. Ensure you use respectful and appropriate terminology.
• Your reference list should contain all source documents that you refer to, quote or paraphrase from. It must conform to the APA referencing style. Style guides are available.

Marking Criteria

Assessable Component	HD 43-50/50	D 38-42/50	C 33-37/50	P 25-32/50	F 0-24/50
Describes post-colonisation practices, policies and legislation relating to Indigenous people from 1770 to 1970	Presents a detailed chronology that examines evolution in ideas and their application in policy and practice	Presents important appropriate information for each stage, such as ideas of race and Social Darwinism. Explains the way that these ideas informed the objectives and practices of each historical stage. Explains the connections between these ideas and each stage, and how these ideas evolved over time.	Presents more detailed information that includes the timeframe, driving legislation and/or policy, the main objectives and key actions of each stage. Outlines the connections between each stage.	Explores all 4 stages. Each topic contains a definition and an explanation. Presents broad and relevant content. Includes chronological connections between each stage.	Explores fewer than 4 stages or explores different stages to those requested without justification. Definitions or explanations are missing. Presents irrelevant or inaccurate ideas.
Explains impacts of post-colonisation practices, policies and legislation on Indigenous peoples and cultures.	In addition to Distinction criteria: Provides a supporting example for each stage drawn from an identified language group that demonstrates how specific legislation, policy or practice caused that impact	Provides detailed explanations for 2 or more impact of specific legislation, policy or practice on Indigenous peoples and cultures for each era	Provides a detailed explanation of more than 1 impact of specific legislation, policy or practice on Indigenous peoples and cultures for each stage.	Describes at least 1 impact on Indigenous people and cultures for each stage in broad and general terms.	Does not describe at least 1 impact for each stage or there are inaccuracies or misunderstandings.
Explains Indigenous reactions and resistance to post-colonisation practices, policies and legislation.	In addition to Distinction criteria: Presents a shared history by providing a detailed explanation of non-Indigenous practices, policies and legislation and Indigenous reactions and resistance.	In addition to Credit criteria: Provides a supporting example for each stage drawn from an identified language group that demonstrates an instance of reaction and/or resistance to specific legislation, policy or practice.	Provides an explanation of Indigenous reactions and resistance for each era and links Indigenous responses to specific practices, policies and legislation.	Describes Indigenous reactions and resistance for each stage in broad and general terms.	Does not include Indigenous reactions and resistance in each stage or presents inaccuracies or misunderstandings.
Explores Indigenous Australian cultural diversity among language groups and over time.	Presents Indigenous Australian cultural diversity as the norm and recognises the specific cultural and historical circumstances of included content.	At least one stage contains 2 contrasted examples drawn from 2 language groups.	The collection of included examples shows cultural diversity among language groups and diversity over time.	Includes broad and general statements about cultural diversity among language groups and over time	Does not include or explore cultural diversity; omits either diversity among language groups or diversity over time.
Selects and uses appropriate terminology and respectful language..	All language and terminology uses are appropriate and informed.	Language and terminology choices allow for diversity and do not ‘generalise’ Indigenous people or cultures.	Accompanies any racial or historical terms used with an explanation. There are no errors relating to writing and references	Avoids common terminology issues. Uses appropriate non-racial terms to describe groups of people.	Common terminology issues are evident, such as non-capitalisation, use of inappropriate words without context or explanation (e.g. half-caste, native, tribe), interchangeable use of Indigenous and Aboriginal, use of words such as ‘they’,‘we’, our’, ‘their’, other issues.
Fulfils the technical aspects of the task..	Writing shows control and skillful construction of expression to convey specific understandings. Seamlessly integrates citations and referencing into the writing.	Written expression and referencing show clear organisation. Uses a variety of techniques to incorporate source material and citations.	There are no errors relating to writing and references. Uses formal written expression consistently without errors. There are no imprecise or unsupported statements or generalisations. Uses the APA reference system without error.	There are few errors. Uses formal written expression with fewer than 6 instances of slang, contractions, spelling, punctuation or grammatical errors. Uses full sentences consistently. Identifies and explores one idea per paragraph. Links paragraphs using effective methods. Content is accurate and supported; there are fewer than 3 instances of unsupported assertions and/or inaccuracies. At least 6 required readings and 2 self-located readings are cited and referenced. Judgment is shown in the choice of reliable, relevant, academic sources of information. Uses the APA referencing system; there may be some errors however there is consistency in approach. All task requirements have been met and submitted.	There are serious errors. Informal or inappropriate written expression is evident and there are more than 6 instances of slang, contractions, spelling, punctuation or grammatical errors. Uses phrases or run-on sentences habitually. Paragraphs are unfocused, too long or too short, or links between paragraphs are undeveloped. Content is not supported; there are more than three instances of unsupported assertions and/or inaccuracies. Cites and references fewer than 6 required readings. Does not include at least 2 self-located references, or uses inappropriate texts. Does not use APA referencing. Referencing style is inconsistent showing a lack of understanding of its purpose. There is evidence of unacknowledged sources or plagarism. Does not meet or is missing one or more task requirement.