IND/Assessment One

Document for Professional Peers
Value: 20% Length: 750

Rationale
This short task provides practice in working with academic sources and writing in formal and respectful manner. Constructive feedback will be provided that can be used in subsequent assessments and in work documents. The task provides you with an opportunity to apply the course content to your particular field of study and practice. The task addresses the following learning outcomes:


 * explain the diversity of Indigenous Australian cultures both past and present
 * demonstrate professional communication skills when working with Indigenous Australian peoples and communities.

Task
Write a document for your future professional peers who will work with Indigenous Australian colleagues or clients. Explain Indigenous Australian cultures by engaging with the ideas found in the key scholarly readings for this course.

1. Give your document the title ‘Indigenous Australian Cultures’ and divide the document into three sections with the following headings:
 * The Dreaming
 * Kinship
 * Economic Organisation

Each section should be approximately 250 words in length. (The total word count for the three sections should be 750 words).

2. The information under each section heading should aim to explain and demonstrate aspects of Indigenous cultures relating to that heading:


 * define and explain each topic,
 * explore the role and function of the topic in Indigenous Australian life,
 * provide examples from specific language groups,
 * refer to diversity within Indigenous Australia (i.e. there is no single concept of the Dreaming as each is dependent on the nation or language group from which it stems),
 * link these three aspects of culture together.

3. Reference list.
 * Provide a reference list on a separate page at the end of your assessment. The reference list must use the APA referencing system and be in alphabetical order. All sources that you cite in your assessment task must be included in the reference list.

Reference requirements

 * Use at least four (4) reference sources in total.


 * You must use a minimum of three (3) required readings from Module 1.


 * You must cite and reference one additional source that you have located yourself. This text 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.

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 * '''Do not cite or reference the module. You may cite and reference the readings linked to the module.
 * 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.


 * The reference list must follow the APA style.

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.

Submission requirements

 * Submit as a Word document only.

Presentation

 * Assessment tasks should be submitted 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 at: Style guides are available.