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Academic Skills Workshops: Understanding your Coursework Brief

Understanding your coursework brief

This Understanding your coursework brief workshop is designed to help you to correctly interpret your coursework brief. Looking at an example, we highlight and explain some key aspects common to most if not all: the task outline, the marking criteria, and the submission and deadline details.

 

[9 minutes 4 seconds]

For more on this topic, visit Interpreting coursework briefs.

You can find a copy of the PowerPoint for this workshop below.

You will also find a list of process words and their meaning, along with an activity to test your knowledge. 

The content in our Assessment planning workshop is a useful follow-up to this one.