Freedom of Press

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Practice for Assessments: ACOM1001
To be completed and reviewed in Week 4 tutorial (N.B. You must prepare your summary notes at home and bring
to class so that you write an annotation in class OR email your draft for online classes.)
Total 500 words
An annotation forms part of a larger collection of similar texts, called an Annotated Bibliography. The purpose of an annotation
is to critically summarise the main arguments of a source that relate to a core research issue and to evaluate the academic
reliability of the source.
You will find your source for your topic by following the link on the iLearn page.
1. Summarise the main ideas in report that aligns with your topic
for the pages given only (approximately 250 words)

Topic Author/s Article Name Year Pages
Freedom of Press
and Government
Ideology
Sora Park, Caroline
Fisher, and Jee Young
Lee etc
Digital News Report:
Australia 2021
2021 28-49; 74-85
Gender
Inequality
World Economic
Forum
The Global Gender Gap
Report 2021
2021 5-42
Hidden Women
in History
Audrey Osler Still hidden from history?
The representation of
women in recently
published history textbooks.
1994 all
Language Death Department of
Infrastructure Transport,
Regional Development and
Communications, etc
National Indigenous Languages
Report
2020 8-22
The New Work
Order
Deloitte Access
Economics
Soft skills for business
success: Building Australia’s
future workforce
2017 12-29

2. Identify the purpose and audience of the report and critically analyse it with regard to:
authority
audience
transparency
objectivity
currency
(
approximately 250 words)
Notes to guide your annotations

Follow the 3 stage structure of the annotation model given in the video lectures (including precise APA
citation, summary of source, evaluation of source).
Use complete, full sentences and try to integrate academic vocabulary.
Be concise (i.e. 500 words not including the citation).
Distinguish the most significant and relevant details and maintain the word count limit.


Department of Linguistics (MH DS March 2022)

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