GCE in Applied ICT Unit G040: Using ICT to Communicate

Assignment 1: Mags Estate Agents

This assignment will allow you to meet all of the assessment requirements for Unit G040; Using ICT to Communicate. You should look at the Assessment Evidence Grid to check what you need to demonstrate in each task to achieve each mark band.

Mags Estate Agents is a new company that is planning to open an office in a town or village near you. Like all estate agents, the company will sell and rent homes for their clients, arrange mortgages for buyers and provide other services.

In this assignment you will: • compare business documents used by three different companies • look at different methods of communicating information and the technologies that support them • create documents/communications for Mags Estate Agents.

Task 1 – to be handed in on or before………………………………..

Estate agents use many different types of documents to communicate with buyers and sellers.

You should collect (or your teacher will give you) two different documents from each of three different estate agents. For example you may collect an information sheet from each estate agent and then visit their website.

Study the documents carefully and then write a report that describes and compares the documents. You will need to consider these points when describing and comparing the documents:

• What is the purpose of each document? • How is each document laid out? • What is good and what is bad about the way each document is presented? • How does the presentation of similar documents compare? • What is good and what is bad about the way each document is written (the style of language used)? • How does the writing style of similar documents compare? • Do documents from the same estate agent use a house style and how is this demonstrated? • How well does each