ZAMBIAN OPEN UNIVERSITY

SCHOOL OF EDUCATION

ED 101[EDG1]: STUDY AND COMMUNICATION SKILLS

SEMESTER 1, 2017 [Mid- Year Intake, for the 2017 cohort]

ASSIGNMENT 1

SECTION A: Essay Writing

Answer all three questions from this Section. Fifteen (15) marks.

1. Discuss, briefly the steps that should be followed in writing a good academic essay. (5
marks)
2. Describe two models of communication and comment on each one, giving examples where
you think the model reflects the reality of communication in today’s world. (5marks)
3. Can non-verbal communication be a substitute for verbal communication? In your answer
discuss the various contexts in which non-verbal communication is used. (5 marks)
SECTION B: Defining terms

Define the following five terms, giving a few brief examples. Total marks: 10.

1. Topic sentence. (2 marks)

2. Transition device. (2 marks)
3. A curriculum vitae. (2 marks)
4. Channel of communication. (2 marks)
5. Academic essay. (2 marks)

Due date: 8th of September, 2017

ASSIGNMENT II REFERENCE WRITING TOTAL MARKS: 25

The following list of references has been jumbled up with some errors and inaccuracies. Re-arrange
the references correctly following the reference style of the American Psychological Association
(APA), and place them in alphabetical order (i.e. surname first, first name second) under the following
categories: i) Authored book, ii) Edited book, iii) Chapter in a book, iv) Journal article, v)
Magazine/Newspaper article, and vi) retrieved sourced material. Underline titles of books and
journals where italics apply.

LIST OF JUMBLED REFERENCES

London: University of London Press. “Parapolitical Systems,” in M. J. Schartz (ed.), Local-Level

Politics: Social and Cultural Perspectives, pg. 281-294. (1968).

Chikwanha, Annie Barbra. “Zambia – Crime and Criminal Justice.” African Human Security Initiative,
Issue Paper, 2007.

http://www.africanreview.org/docs/zambia/zambianissue07.pdf.

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United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), Legal and Protection Policy Research
Series, Department of International Protection. The Administration in Refugee Camps: A Study of
Practice. Da Costa, Rosa. (2006).

ZAOU. Philosophy of Adult Education. Mwansa, D. M., P. C. Chuma and S. W. M. Phiri. (2006).

Chusa Sichone, Times of Zambia, ‘Hunger looms in Pemba’, April, 2013.

“The Breakdown of Cultures in Refugee Camps.” Forced Migration Review, No.14. Eruesto, Jose.
(2002).

Equality Now. “Zambia.” Submission to the United Nations Human Rights Committee, 56 th Session,
March 1996. Accessed: 19 January 2009.

http://www.equalitynow.org/english/campaigns/un/unhrc-reports/unhrc-zambia_en.pdf.

“Ethnicity, gender and violence in Kenya.” Forced Migration Review, Vol. 9. Kagwanja, P. M. (2000).

New York: (1995). Literacy practices: Investigating literacy social context. Longman. Baynham,

Griek, Ilse. “Traditional Systems of Justice in Refugee Camps: The Need for Alternatives.” Refugee
Reports, Vol.

27,No. 2, Dutch Council for Refugees Summer/Autumn 2006.

http://www.refugees.org/uploadedFiles/Investigate/Publications_and_Archieves/Refugee_Reports/RR
SummerAutumn2006.pdf

New York: Basic Books. 1976. Schooling in Capitalist America. S. Bowles and H. Gintis.

Daily Nation, (2016, January 22 nd). Nyirenda, P. Has mining benefitted indigenous Zambians and the
economy? 3(1244), 21.

IRIN News. “Zambia: Anti-corruption drive misses the point.” 30 January 2007.

http://www.irinnews.org/PrintReport.aspx?ReportID=67716

Johns Hopkins Press. Coffin, J.M. Molecular biology of HIV. In (Ed.), (pp. 3-40). (1999). Baltimore:
Crandell, K.A. The Evolution of HIV 

London: Routledge, 2002. Ezzy, Douglas. Qualitative Analysis: Practice and Innovation.

University of North Carolina Press, 1991. A Case for the Case Study. Feagin, Joe R., Anthony M.
Orum, and Gideon Sjoberg.

Short, Susan E. “Focus Groups,” in Perecman, Ellen and Curran, Sara R. (Eds). A Handbook for
Social Science Field Research: Essays and Bibliographic Sources on Research Design and Methods.
USA: Sage Publications, Inc., 2006

New York, 1977. Dennis Collins: Paulo Freire: His Life, Thought and Work. Paulist Press.

Successful nonverbal Communication: principles And Application. D. G. Leathers. Macmillan, New

York, 1

New Zealand Journal of Adult Learning, 6-20. Benseman, J. 2005. Paradigm lost? Lifelong education
in New Zealand in the 1970s and 1980s. 33(1),

Due date: 16th of October, 2017

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