Posted: February 27th, 2015

Costcutter A1 Poster

Paper, Order, or Assignment Requirements

 

Learning Outcomes

This assessment will enable students to demonstrate in full or in part the learning outcomes identified in the Unit Descriptor – see online copy, via the STR355 homepage on myCourse.

 

Other Instructions

Follow any advice and guidance given for both `Turnitin’ and `Succeed@Solent’ found on the SSU Portal, as well as on the STR355 homepage on myCourse.

 

No External Contact is permitted – please note that widely used cases with answers already on the internet will not be permitted, either.

Extenuating Circumstances

The University’s Extenuating Circumstances procedures are in place if there are genuine circumstances that may have affected your academic performance. Remember however you need to be ‘fit to study’, this means that you can either submit your assessed work or declare extenuating circumstances, but you cannot do both.

 

A summary of guidance notes for students is given below:

uk/DocMan8/OCSFile?RNS=1234570925″>http://docman.solent.ac.uk/DocMan8/OCSFile?RNS=1234570925

 

Academic Misconduct

Any submissions must be your own work and, where facts or ideas have been used from other sources, these sources must be appropriately referenced. The University’s Academic Handbook, includes the definitions of all practices that will be deemed to constitute academic misconduct. You should check this link before submitting your work.

 

Procedures relating to student academic misconduct are given below:

http://docman.solent.ac.uk/DocMan8/OCSFile?RNS=1234570157

 

Ethics Policy

The work being carried out by the student must be in compliance with the Ethics Policy. Where there is an ethical issue, as specified within the Ethics Policy, then the student will need an ethics release or an ethical approval prior to the start of the project.

 

The Ethics Policy is contained within Section 2S of the Academic Handbook:

http://docman.solent.ac.uk/DocMan8/OCSFile?RNS=1234569791

 

Anonymous Marking

A copy of the University’s Policy on Anonymous Marking, process details and student guidance on submission sheet completion can be found on the following links, which are also uploaded on the Student Portal.  The guidance ‘fact sheet’ will be available at Faculty Reception Points.

 

Policy:  http://docman.solent.ac.uk/DocMan8/OCSFile?RNS=1234574213

 

Process:  http://docman.solent.ac.uk/DocMan8/OCSFile?RNS=1234574215

 

Fact Sheet:  http://docman.solent.ac.uk/DocMan8/OCSFile?RN=1234574214

 

Grade marking

The University uses a letter grade scale for the marking of assessments. Unless you have been specifically informed otherwise your marked assignment will be awarded a letter grade. More detailed information on grade marking and the grade scale can be found on myCourse. The guidance ‘fact sheet’ is available at the Faculty Reception Points.

 

Policy: http://docman.solent.ac.uk/DocMan8/OCSFile?RNS=1234569864

 

Fact sheet:  http://docman.solent.ac.uk/DocMan8/OCSFile?RNS=1234576014

 

 

Assignment Brief

 

• you are to prepare a Poster that demonstrates your reflections upon the AE1 exercise

For more on Reflection – see Succeed@Solent: http://mycourse.solent.ac.uk/mod/book/view.php?id=2732

• your poster must be produced to a high standard and created [online] on one sheet of A1 paper, uploaded onto Turnitin – for assessment and moderation.
• you may be required to respond on key points of your Poster, within your seminar group, in a very brief manner.
• you should ensure that your Poster is a stand-alone item and requires no additional notes, etc..

 

 

No External Contact is permitted – please note that widely used cases with answers already on the internet will not be permitted, either.

 

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Poster guidance notes

• Basic principles
• Creating your poster

• The poster should be A1 (841 x 594 mm) in size
• It should be visually interesting, presenting your topic clearly and with immediacy
• It should be understandable to a reader without extensive verbal comment – the poster should be able to speak for itself

You should create your poster using a software package that can cope with A1 size.  Otherwise, you may have problems when scaling up, particularly if you have inserted a picture.  One of the following packages will do the job.

Software examples:

• In ‘PowerPoint’, create your poster as a single slide. You can set the page size when you start using File > Page Setup, so if you want an A1 poster (84.1 x 59.4 cm), you can specify this before you start. PowerPoint also allows you to add guidelines to help you line up the poster elements.  Use View > Grid and Guides… and tick the Display grid on screen (Try this source too?) http://www.ljmu.ac.uk/lea/LEA_Docs/Posters_with_Powerpoint.pdf

• In ‘Open office writer’.  This software is free and can be downloaded from http://www.openoffice.org.  It takes a few minutes to download and several more minutes to install onto your desktop.  You can set the page size by using Format > Page > Page and set the page size width to 59.4 cm and height to 84.1 cm.  There is a useful Drawing toolbar (View > Toolbars > Drawing) which will probably appear at the bottom of the screen.  This software also allows you save the document as a PDF, which is necessary for printing in the library.
• Other software packages that might be suitable include ‘Photoshop’, ‘Indesign’ or ‘Illustrator’.