1) Assessment Details
You are required to submit a written evaluation and an oral presentation of a current article obtained from
financial magazines and/or newspapers. You should choose an article which you feel is relevant to the
concepts and theories covered in this course. For example your article could deal with trade theories,
international trade policy, balance of payments, foreign exchange markets, or open economy
macroeconomics. Sources of current articles include the business pages of ‘The Age’ ( Business Day) and
‘The Australian’; ‘Australian Financial Review’; Business Review Weekly; or international financial magazines
and newspapers. Your article must have been published within the past 6 months.
Your chosen article must be attached to your written evaluation together with a copy of your presentation
slides. The written article evaluation should be no longer than 1,000 words.
2) Criteria used to grade this task
This assessment task will account for 20 percent of the total assessment (10 percent for the oral
presentation and 10 percent for the written evaluation. Also refer to the attached marking guide for this
task.
3) Task Assessor
Lecturer
4) Suggested time to devote to this task
Approximately 10 hours outside class time.
5) Submission details
To be determined by the lecturer
6) Feedback and return of work.
Feedback will be provided by the lecturer within two weeks of the presentation.
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