Acknowledging references

Taught skills

<b>List of skills you will be taught
</b>
- how to select an appropriate EPQ title

- time management skills, overall project planning, preparing a project plan

- Managing the project - timeline, Gantt etc

- research skills and evaluation of sources with examples (RAVEN and triangulation)

- primary and secondary research

- report writing skills, structure of the written report

- preparing mid project review

- writing a literature review

- referencing and bibliography section

- external visitors from universities

- the ethics of research

- questionnaire design and analysis

- Use of IT for footnotes, index, table of contents, headers and footers, graphs and charts

- surveys and data analysis

- how to avoid plagiarism

- presentation skills

- reflection and evaluation

Primary Research

Time management and Gantt Charts

Notes from 16th January lesson. Planning your project/timings.

TASKS

Deadlines

Record of Initial Ideas

Proposal

Planning review end of Feb/March

Mid project review end of March

Product review end of Summer

Research log until April – primary/secondary

Referencing – author, date, source

Essay

Presentations June/July

Moderating/Marking September/October in time for UCAS grade predictions

Take into consideration holidays, A levels, PPEs

https://templates.office.com/en-us/Simple-Gantt-Chart-TM16400962

Recording your research and evaluating resources

A grade proposal

EPQ presentation