Advantages
Allows for diverse learning styles in which some students thrive on scholarly writing tasks, while others excel at applied writing . Offers an important opportunity to develop a variety of written communication skills targeted at specific audiences. Useful within all HaSS disciplines, where communicating complex arguments to open audiences is valued.
Challenges
Some students may struggle with the challenge of communicating abstract concepts in an accessible way. Class time may be dedicated to strategies for achieving this.
Tips for implementation
Coordinators should emphasise the importance of creating a distinct piece of writing as part of responding to this task, so as to mitigate against students resubmitting elements of their original essay without alternation.
How it supports academic integrity
Students actively build on their previous assessment piece, so should ideally be drawing upon their own ideas. Orienting the task in this way potentially reduces the risk of outsourcing, and consolidates the importance of integrous attribution (including not resubmitting one's own previous work).