Selecting Work for Assessment

1. Do you need to submit a critical review? Please check your specific assessment requirements in either the assessment section of your unit for Teach-in units, or in the Teach-out Unit Learning Outcomes & Discipline Specific Guidance in the Understanding Assessment section, to identify if you're required to submit a critical review. If you do, please continue with the following steps. 

2. Check your word count and spelling. If you have not done so already, check the spelling and word count in your document using your software. 

3. Check your use of Harvard Referencing. You should cite any research you have undertaken through secondary sources using the Harvard referencing system. The system can be applied to books, quotations, images, films and any other work you wish to reference. Through written citations it helps to locate work and prevents any accidental plagiarism. To find out how to use Harvard Referencing, please visit The OCA Library.

4. Documenting your work. You can choose to either type up your Critical Review using the available Google Drive tools (Gdocs) or otherwise submit a Microsoft Word docx file. You can obtain MS Office 365 applications, including MS Word, by registering as a student user on the Office 365 Education site.

5. Submitting work in a suitable format for plagiarism checks. All extended written work - this will be particular assignments such as critical reviews / essays (and all final assignment pieces for creative writing assessments) - must be checked for plagiarism by the OCA Assessment Team. Please prepare your files in either Word or PDF formats to support these checks - links to extended written work in blog entries or other platforms will not be acceptable.