This task requires you to provide written answers and map outputs to specific questions based on topics and exercises covered in Weeks 1, 2 and 3 of the term. The questions are in a Microsoft Word file in Moodle, which you can download and use as your template (i.e., type in your answers and insert maps). You must ensure that all of the work you submit is your own, in line with the University's requirements.

Instructions on how to ‘export’ a suitable map image for insertion into the Mapping Practical #1 document are provided in Week 2.

Note: You are permitted to use Generative Artificial Intelligence (Gen AI) models as supplementary or complementary resources to aid your learning and idea development in this unit. However, assessments must be written in your own words. Any ideas or text obtained using Gen AI or other sources must be paraphrased and referenced accordingly. Guidelines for referencing Gen AI in your assessments can be accessed via the link: https://delivery-cqucontenthub.stylelabs.cloud/api/public/content/Guidelines_referencing_Artificial_Intelligence?v=7f19c75d. Failure to reference may result in a breach of academic integrity.    

Mapping Practical #1 marking criteria:

• The degree of completeness and insightfulness of any written answer.
• Written answers conform generally to the word limit guidance.
• Paragraph/sentence/argument construction and readability of short answers.
• The degree a map demonstrates mastery of the unit learning material.
• The degree to which a map is readable and ‘tells a story’ – ensure the maps are sized so that the details can be read, particularly the details important to the story of the map. Select the appropriate ‘zoom’ level.
• The degree to which appropriate, balanced cartographic elements have been used in the map production (depending on, and appropriate to, the tuition of the week – later maps will require extensive marginalia and cartographic elements – details noted in the exercise specifications per week).

This task requires you to provide written answers and map outputs to specific questions based on topics and exercises covered in Weeks 4, 5, 6, 7 and 8 of the term. The questions are in a Microsoft Word file in Moodle, which you can download and use as your template (i.e., type in your answers and insert maps). You must ensure that all of the work you submit is your own, in line with the University's requirements.

Instructions on how to ‘export’ a suitable map image for insertion into the Mapping Practical #2 document are provided in Week 2.

Note: You are permitted to use Generative Artificial Intelligence (Gen AI) models as supplementary or complementary resources to aid your learning and idea development in this unit. However, assessments must be written in your own words. Any ideas or text obtained using Gen AI or other sources must be paraphrased and referenced accordingly. Guidelines for referencing Gen AI in your assessments can be accessed via the link: https://delivery-cqucontenthub.stylelabs.cloud/api/public/content/Guidelines_referencing_Artificial_Intelligence?v=7f19c75d. Failure to reference may result in a breach of academic integrity.    

Mapping Practical #2 marking criteria:

• The degree of completeness and insightfulness of any written answer.
• Written answers conform generally to the word limit guidance.
• Paragraph/sentence/argument construction and readability of short answers.
• The degree a map demonstrates mastery of the unit learning material.
• The degree to which a map is readable and ‘tells a story’ – ensure the maps are sized so that the details can
  be read, particularly the details important to the story of the map. Select the appropriate ‘zoom’ level.
• The degree to which appropriate, balanced cartographic elements have been used in the map production
  (depending on, and appropriate to, the tuition of the week – later maps will require extensive marginalia and
  cartographic elements – details noted in the exercise specifications per week).

Submit Mapping Practical #3 on or before the due date, as one Microsoft Word file adding the maps and answering the questions as specified in the exercises of Weeks 9 and 10 and the major mapping project (specified in Week 10).  The questions are in a Microsoft Word file in Moodle, which you can download and use as your template (i.e., type in your answers and insert maps). Instructions in Week 2 advise how to ‘export’ a suitable map image for insertion into the Mapping Practical #3 document). Submit Mapping Practical #3 in the Moodle Turnitin function when you have inserted the answers/maps for Weeks: 9, 10 and the mapping project. Note that Weeks 11 and 12 are set aside for working on the mapping project. 

Note: You are permitted to use Generative Artificial Intelligence (Gen AI) models as supplementary or complementary resources to aid your learning and idea development in this unit. However, assessments must be written in your own words. Any ideas or text obtained using Gen AI or other sources must be paraphrased and referenced accordingly. Guidelines for referencing Gen AI in your assessments can be accessed via the link: https://delivery-cqucontenthub.stylelabs.cloud/api/public/content/Guidelines_referencing_Artificial_Intelligence?v=7f19c75d. Failure to reference may result in a breach of academic integrity.    

Mapping Practical #3 marking criteria:

• The degree of completeness and insightfulness of any written answer.
• Written answers conform generally to the word limit guidance.
• Paragraph/sentence/argument construction and readability of short answers.
• The degree a map demonstrates mastery of the unit learning material.
• The degree to which a map is readable and ‘tells a story’ – ensure the maps are sized so that the details can be read, particularly the details important to the story of the map. Select the appropriate ‘zoom’ level.
• The degree to which appropriate, balanced cartographic elements have been used in the map production (depending on, and appropriate to, the tuition of the week – later maps will require extensive marginalia and cartographic elements – details noted in the exercise specifications per week).