Writing for International Students (WRIT1001)
Sem 1 2025
Mode Activity/ Performance
Category Participation/ Student contribution
Weight 15%
Due date 30/05/2025 4:00 pm
All UQExtend content must be completed by 4pm Friday Week 13.
Learning outcomes L01, L02, L03, L04, L05, L06, L07
Task description
This course is built around an online course hosted on UQ's Extend online learning platform. This online course contains a wide range of activities that will help you to learn about (and improve) your academic writing. These activities are available via WEEKLY MODULES.
IMPORTANT:
There are a total of 13 weekly online modules available for completion from the beginning of the semester. Students are advised to complete each module in sequence on the corresponding week of the teaching semester, e.g., Module 1 in Week 1, Module 2 in Week 2, etc.
Each weekly online module can take between 2-4 hours to complete, depending on the week and content covered.
Participation tracking will begin from Week 1 and end at 4:00pm on Friday of Week 13. Activities completed after this time will not count towards your online participation score.
Students will be able to track their online activity completion rate through the 'progress' tab in the Extend course (instructions will be provided online and in Week 1's workshop).
Criteria & Marking: Here is how the grading works for the online component:
To be awarded full participation marks, students must complete ALL online activities (except where an activity is specific as OPTIONAL). An online activity completion rate of between 90%-100% will result in you receiving 15% of the grade for the whole course as 'online participation’.
An online activity completion rate of between 80%-90% will result in you receiving 10% of the grade for the whole course as 'online participation'.
An online activity completion rate of between 70%-80% will result in you receiving 5% of the grade for the whole course as 'online participation'.
Please note that in order to PASS WRIT1001, you must complete at least 70% of all online activities.
An online activity completion rate of <70% will result in a FAIL grade for the course.
This participation score does NOT include face-to-face workshops - attendance for these is OPTIONAL and will NOT affect your online participation grade (although you are strongly encouraged to attend).
Your completion of these activities is tracked by the course coordinator, and your score will reflect the extent of your completion of the following activity types:
PROBLEM QUESTIONS (Multiple choice, dropdown menu, checkboxes, etc.).
COMPLETION OF VIDEOS (entire video must be watched).
DISCUSSION FORUMS (following all accompanying instructions).
PEER INSTRUCTION QUESTION (including meeting minimum character count for replies).
DRAG AND DROP activities.
CIRRUS ANNOTATION TASKS (see online modules for instructions).
IMPORTANT:
You do not have to get all activities CORRECT - you only have to COMPLETE the activities (it is OK to provide incorrect answers, although you will have the opportunity to revise your answers upon receiving feedback).
Generative AI & MT Statement
This task has been designed to be challenging, authentic and complex. Whilst students may use AI and/or MT technologies, successful completion of assessment in this course will require students to critically engage in specific contexts and tasks for which artificial intelligence will provide only limited support and guidance. A failure to reference generative AI or MT use may constitute student misconduct under the Student Code of Conduct. To pass this assessment, students will be required to demonstrate detailed comprehension of their written submission independent of AI and MT tools.
Essay Plan
Mode Written
Category Essay/ Critique
Weight 20%
Due date 4/04/2025 4:00 pm
WEEK 6
Learning outcomes L01, L02, L03, L04
Task description
Topic
An academic topic of your choice.
Length
MAXIMUM 2 pages in Word (including references), in note (dot, bullet point) form. - not full text.
Content
The plan’s format and content should be set out as discussed on the UQExtend online materials and in the workshops. Your essay plan will need to list three [3] contributing arguments (CAs). Each CA will require at least two [2] pieces of supporting evidence.
Submission
Submit an electronic copy (in Word or PDF) to the Turnitin link in the Blackboard Assessment folder.
Resubmissions are acceptable up until the deadline.
IMPORTANT
An APA 7th reference list is REQUIRED, and the plan should contain in-text citations as evidence that you have begun research. There is no 'magic number' to the number of citations required - use citation wherever you make a claim, or use direct quotations of someone else's work.
Generative AI & MT Statement
This task has been designed to be challenging, authentic and complex. Whilst students may use AI and/or MT technologies, successful completion of assessment in this course will require students to critically engage in specific contexts and tasks for which artificial intelligence will provide only limited support and guidance. A failure to reference generative AI or MT use may constitute student misconduct under the Student Code of Conduct. To pass this assessment, students will be required to demonstrate detailed comprehension of their written submission independent of AI and MT tools.
Complete Essay
Mode Written
Category Essay/ Critique
Weight 30%
Due date 9/05/2025 4:00 pm
WEEK 10
Learning outcomes L01, L02, L03, L04, L05, L06
Task description
Topic:
The same academic topic as used for your Essay Plan assessment
WRIT1001: Essay Assessment: General instructions
Write a complete argumentative (persuasive) Essay based on your Essay Plan and the feedback you received on it, using the information and knowledge that you have learned throughout this course.
Length
1,200 words (+/- 10%) in formal academic English
The essay’s format and content should be set out in three sections (Introduction, Body, Conclusion) but DO NOT use subheadings for these sections. (Part of the skill of writing short academic texts is making smooth transitions between sections.)
A reference list in APA format is required. The reference list is not counted in the word count.
Direct quotations are counted in the word count, but they should NOT exceed 5% of the essay.
Submission
Submit an electronic copy (in Word or PDF) to the Turnitin link in the Blackboard Assessment folder. Resubmissions are acceptable up until the deadline, but note that similarity reports are only generated once every 24 hours.
IMPORTANT
You must cite at least six scholarly sources. The reference list should be in APA format. Any claims/evidence in the essay should be supported by in-text citations, also in APA format, e.g. (Davidson, 2017).
Use of AI/essay writing / ghostwriting companies is subject to SEVERE penalty - we are able to know if you produced your own work or not and have the tools to prove it.
Generative AI & MT Statement
This task has been designed to be challenging, authentic and complex. Whilst students may use Al technologies, successful completion of assessment in this course will require students to critically engage in specific contexts and tasks for which artificial intelligence will provide only limited support and guidance. A failure to reference Al use may constitute student misconduct under the Student Code of Conduct. To pass this assessment, students will be required to demonstrate detailed comprehension of their written submission independent of Al tools.
Improving on generative AI essay and video reflection
Mode Written
Category Essay/ Critique, Reflection
Weight 35%
Due date 11/06/2025 4:00 pm
Exam Week 1
Learning outcomes L01, L02, L03, L04, L05, L06
Task description
This assessment is in two parts (PART A and PART B). The assessment is not considered submitted until both parts are received following the instructions below.
PART A:
Drawing on the knowledge you have gained from the WRIT1001 course content, you are to produce an argumentative essay as taught in the course. You are not to write your own essay on your own topic—you must improve the provided essay produced by generative AI (e.g. ChatGPT).
The essay produced by a generative AI will be provided to you on the Monday of Week 13 (in the assessment folder).
Part A of this assessment requires you to improve the AI-generated model essay, bringing its quality up to university standard with the skills you have learned in this course, including critical argumentation, logical structure, detailed research skills, appropriate and valid referencing of sources, etc.
As the AI-generated essay will be short in length, you will be required to also increase the word count to approximately 1200 words. A reference list in APA7 will be required (this is NOT part of the word count).
This part of the task is worth 28 marks (out of 35).
PART B:
Submit a video reflection explaining in detail how you drew upon:
1. The knowledge gained from the WRIT1001 course content to improve upon the Generative AI-produced essay, and
2. How you will transfer and apply this knowledge to your writing in the future.
Note: You MUST be able to explain how you revised the Generative AI essay step by step in the video, AND explain how you used the WRIT course materials to help you do this.
This part of the task is worth 7 marks (out of 35). Students who fail to submit the video as per the instructions below will receive a mark of 0/35 on this assessment.