University of Technology and Applied Sciences – Ibri Sultanate of Oman Business Studies Department Academic Year: 2021 — 2022 Semester: I Student Assignment Guidelines to the students: 1. Students should upload the assignments in Moodle through the link (Turnitin) provided by your course lecturer on or before the deadline. 2. Students should submit their assignments in typed format which is accepted by Turnitin. Hand written assignments are not be accepted. 3. The assignment file should be in a Word format and the file name should be: Student ID, Student First Name and Course Name. 4. The submitted assignment should comply with the academic integrity and honesty of UTAS (Academic Integrity and Honesty Policy). Sanctions for high plagiarism (above 25%) are: First offence: Written warning and repeat the work Second offence: Zero mark and suspension for one semester Third offence: Dismissal from the college 5. If a student is found violating rules and instructions or has used tricks to reduce the plagiarism percentage, a disciplinary action will be taken by the Department Council (DC). 6. Student is responsible for the consequences of submitting a wrong file in Moodle. 7. Submission of assignment after the deadline is treated as a late submission and penalties are applied. Below are the penalties for a late submission: Late submission by 1 day 2 days 3 days Reduction in Marks 15% 25% 30% 8. Students are advised to follow Harvard referencing style. A sample of referencing is shown below: ? For Books: Schneider, Z, Whitehead, D & Elliott, D 2007, Find them correct: The right steps for good handwriting, 3rd edn, Elsevier New Zealand, Marrickville, Auckland ? For Websites: Health Council 2019, Causes of bad health, Health 2019, . Council, viewed 2 January ? For Journals Khan I, P 2004, ‘Role of infrastructure in economic development’, Business Standard, vol. 19, no. 6, pp. 4652. Page 1 of 2 ? For Newspaper Articles Norvic, N 2012, ‘Education in pandemic: new mode of education’, The Arabic Education, 30 March, p. 5. Structured Assignment Course Name: Business communication Course Code: Date & Time of Issue: ENGL1208 Level: 24 October 2021 Diploma-1 Deadline (Date & Time): Section No.: 2 09th December 2021 Learning Outcomes Covered in the Assignment: Outcome No. 1 Choose and use communication methods and strategies appropriate to specific business situations including the proper use of telephone, fax and e-mail. Outcome No. 2 Record and summarize information, instructions and ideas to help solve business problems. Outcome No. 3 Apply a variety of communication skills, methods and strategies to communicate effectively in business situations. Outcome No. 4 Work independently and as a member in team Assignment Question(s) (Allotted Marks: 15) Answer All the Questions Q1. Make a list of all the forms of communication that you use on a regular basis. For each form of communication list what forms of technology are required? Each student will research the history of one form of communication technology used in their daily life and submit report on that. Q2. Select any country of your choice and then write a report on that country’s national variables and individual variables that affect business and communication. Your outline may include the following points The Country Page 1 of 2 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Land &Climate Economy Education Transportation Language 6. Religion 7. Methods of greeting 8. Nonverbal Behavior 9. Foods 10. Business Hours Please ensure to remove the above contents before you submit your assignment in Moodle. 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MLA In-Text Citations: The Basics

Guidelines for referring to the works of others in your text using MLA style are covered throughout the MLA Handbook and in chapter 7 of the MLA Style Manual. Both books provide extensive examples, so it’s a good idea to consult them if you want to become even more familiar with MLA guidelines or if you have a particular reference question.

BASIC IN-TEXT CITATION RULES

In MLA Style, referring to the works of others in your text is done using parenthetical citations. This method involves providing relevant source information in parentheses whenever a sentence uses a quotation or paraphrase. Usually, the simplest way to do this is to put all of the source information in parentheses at the end of the sentence (i.e., just before the period). However, as the examples below will illustrate, there are situations where it makes sense to put the parenthetical elsewhere in the sentence, or even to leave information out.

General Guidelines

• The source information required in a parenthetical citation depends (1) upon the source medium (e.g. print, web, DVD) and (2) upon the source’s entry on the Works Cited page.
• Any source information that you provide in-text must correspond to the source information on the Works Cited page. More specifically, whatever signal word or phrase you provide to your readers in the text must be the first thing that appears on the left-hand margin of the corresponding entry on the Works Cited page.

IN-TEXT CITATIONS: AUTHOR-PAGE STYLE

MLA format follows the author-page method of in-text citation. This means that the author’s last name and the page number(s) from which the quotation or paraphrase is taken must appear in the text, and a complete reference should appear on your Works Cited page. The author’s name may appear either in the sentence itself or in parentheses following the quotation or paraphrase, but the page number(s) should always appear in the parentheses, not in the text of your sentence. For example:

Wordsworth stated that Romantic poetry was marked by a “spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings” (263).

Romantic poetry is characterized by the “spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings” (Wordsworth 263).

Wordsworth extensively explored the role of emotion in the creative process (263).

Both citations in the examples above, (263) and (Wordsworth 263), tell readers that the information in the sentence can be located on page 263 of a work by an author named Wordsworth. If readers want more information about this source, they can turn to the Works Cited page, where, under the name of Wordsworth, they would find the following information:

Wordsworth, William. Lyrical Ballads. Oxford UP, 1967.

IN-TEXT CITATIONS FOR PRINT SOURCES WITH KNOWN AUTHOR

For print sources like books, magazines, scholarly journal articles, and newspapers, provide a signal word or phrase (usually the author’s last name) and a page number. If you provide the signal word/phrase in the sentence, you do not need to include it in the parenthetical citation.

Human beings have been described by Kenneth Burke as “symbol-using animals” (3).

Human beings have been described as “symbol-using animals” (Burke 3).

These examples must correspond to an entry that begins with Burke, which will be the first thing that appears on the left-hand margin of an entry on the Works Cited page:

Burke, Kenneth. Language as Symbolic Action: Essays on Life, Literature, and Method. University of California Press, 1966.