Bibliographies

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Final investigation lesson before Friday deadline

Afternoon all,

As the title says, this is your last investigation lesson before your full draft is due in on Friday. As you are only entitled to one draft, you need to ensure that it's up to the required word count so your feedback is as detailed and specific as possible. Some of you have a lot of catching up to do - you must ensure that it is all completed and up to scratch.

The final piece that is missing is the conclusion in which you evaluate your findings and decide whether or not these have proven your hypothesis. Some general advice:

Conclusion/Evaluation:

• Conclusion needs to be tentative - mention any issues you had with generalising or the reliability of your data, despite your careful methodology
• Evaluate how far your hypothesis was proven
• Consider any contextual elements that might have affected the data (e.g. age/dialect/social group etc.)
• What would you need to make a more effective investigation? e.g. more data, a more focussed hypothesis, another section/another technique analysed etc.
• Don't be self-critical, but do be evaluative of the investigation

Conclusion & Evaluation can be combined under one heading, and should total about 300 words. You have a handout containing 3 examples, so look at each one and model your own on their style.

Investigations: Organisation and Editing

Hi everyone,

As the first draft deadline for your coursework looms ever closer, ensure that you are making rapid progress with your analysis.

Another task on your list is to organise your investigation and edit out anything unnecessary which may tip you over the word count.

In order to make your investigations presentable, please complete the following steps today:

1. Now that you have collected and shown me your data in full, copy and paste your data onto a new document and delete it from your original investigation document.

2. Introductions: please edit your introductions down to a word count of approximately 200/300 words.
Note: your hypotheses should be stated clearly at the end of your introduction and not in your methodology.

3. Methodologies: please edit your methodologies down to a word count of approximately 200/300 words.

Note: together your introductions and methodologies should equal approximately 500 words. You can tailor these sections to suit your needs but be aware that the methodology will likely net you more marks.

4. Analysis: overall your analysis needs to be approximately 1200 words but remember that your analysis needs to be organised into sections with subheadings and data tables. Data tables are not included in your word count.

5. When you have completed your analysis, you need to write a conclusion and evaluation at approximately 300 words. I will provide a model of this for you next week.