LCA English and Communication case studies
LCA English and Communication · Put your knowledge to work in context.
The LCA English and Communication assessment measures whether a candidate can read closely, write clearly, listen accurately, and argue coherently in academic and workplace settings. It is typically taken by students finishing secondary English, by candidates preparing for tertiary study where English is the medium of instruction, and by professionals who need evidence of communication competence for admission, employment, or internal promotion. The LCA English and Communication case studies are 5 cases and about 2,752 words.
1The Hybrid Eligibility Conflict
You are a team leader at a 240-person logistics company. Two documents govern eligibility for the new hybrid schedule.
620 words, about 3 min2The Grant Draft with Four Faults
You are proofreading a 250-word grant narrative for a community arts council before a 5 p.m. The rubric awards 10 points for "clarity and command of standard written English" and penalises sentence-level errors.
553 words, about 3 min3The Deadline That Moved Twice
You are an account manager at a compliance consultancy. A client, Dana Reyes, leaves this voicemail at 4:40 p.m.
531 words, about 3 min4The Four-Day Week Pilot
You are on a 12-person customer support team evaluating a proposal to adopt a four-day week permanently. The pilot ran for eight weeks in November and December.
554 words, about 3 min5The Abstract That Missed Its Audience
You are a research assistant submitting a 200-word abstract to a practitioner conference on community health communication. The reviewer rejects the draft with this comment: "The abstract lacks a clear problem statement and implications for practice, and the register is too specialised for a mixed audience of clinicians and community organisers." The draft opens: "This study operationalises a mixed-methods, socio-ecological framework to interrogate the discursive construction of vaccine hesitancy among hard-to-reach populations (n=112) in two peri-urban catchments." The finding - that text-message reminders in the participants' first language raised appointment attendance by 14 percentage points - appears only in the final sentence.
494 words, about 2 min