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.