ENGL 2222-55 Project
Student Booklet
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Introduction
As 50% of your assessment for ENGL 2222-55, you must complete a project, on a topic
related to your major. We will assess you on two things:
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A 10-minute presentation to be delivered early in the second half of the semester.
You may, if you wish, do a multi-medium or PowerPoint presentation but you will
be assessed on what you say and how you say it, not what is written on your
PowerPoint slides. The presentation will be assessed using the English
Department’s presentation assessment criteria, which are scored out of 100 and
are available from your teacher. This will count for 20% of the total marks for the
ENGL 2222-55 assessment.
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A written report, of 1000-1200 words. The report will be assessed using the
English Department’s assessment criteria for Year 2 writing, scored out of 25 and
available from your teacher. This will count for 30% of the total marks for the
ENGL 2222-55 assessment.
Both the presentation and the report must be your own work and must not be a copy of
work that you have already done in your major studies. This research may be chiefly
‘secondary’ i.e. it will involve reviewing what they have said about a topic. However, it
must contain a ‘primary’ element: one of the sources of information in the project must
be a limited, small-scale piece of investigation carried out by the student. An example of
such a procedure might be a survey or an interview or an observation. For example, a
student might be interested in Twitter and how/why people use it. He/she could
investigate this through reading sources on the world-wide web and then carry out a
class survey. Note: both presentation and report must be addressed to the same topic
or research question. Students who do a presentation on one topic and a report on
another will score 0 for the second. Your teacher will support you with the project and
you will do a number of activities in class to help you complete each of the tasks below.
Task 1: Choose a research topic.
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This must be a specific question, not a general topic.
The question must be researchable within the semester, and one you can attempt
to cover satisfactorily in a 10-minute presentation and a 1000-word report. There
is no point taking a vague and general question that you cannot hope to answer.
The question should relate to your major studies but it must not be something that
you have already researched and answered as part of the assessment for one of
your courses.
The question will involve secondary research i.e. something you research through
the internet or the LRC and an element of primary research i.e. research you
carry out yourself.
Your teacher will advise you how to go about choosing this question.
My Topic
My general area of interest is ….
My question is ….
I have chosen this because ….
Task 2: Plan a work schedule.
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You will need to decide what you need to get done, and how and when you are
going to do it.
You should show this plan to your teacher.
My Plan
Action
Deadline
Done
Task 3: Gather information from the internet or the LRC to answer
your question
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Identify sources to read in the LRC or the Internet.
Read and make notes on the sources.
Think about what you have read and decide what your opinions are.
You should show your teacher the sources you plan to use and your notes.
My sources
Ref 1
Ref 2
Ref 3
Ref 4
In your reference include as much information as you can, following the APA style. If
you take a paper source you should be able to find: the name of the author, when the
source was published, the title of the article, the name of the journal or book it was
published in, the name of the publisher and the city where the publisher’s office is. If you
take an internet source you may find only some of these things. Give the URL and as
much other information as you can.
My Notes
Ref 1
Ref 2
Ref 3
Ref 4
Task 4: Gather your own data through carrying out a piece of primary
research
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Identify the procedure you want to use.
Plan where, when, how and with what resources you will carry out the research.
Carry it out.
Analyse your data to see what it shows.
You should show your teacher your research plan..
My Primary Research Procedure
My research procedure will be ….
Resources I will need are …
I will carry out this research …
(when) ….
(where) ….
(with whom) ….
What happened?
What does my research show?
Task 5: Organize your information.
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Review all the information you have found and decide what you want to say.
Remember, the markers are interested in hearing and reading what you think
about a topic not just your report of what other people say about your topic.
You should discuss with your teacher – and with one of your major teachers as
well if you can – what you want to say about your topic.
What I want to say
Task 6: Plan your presentation
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Plan the presentation in three main stages: introduction, main body, conclusion
List and sequence the points you want to make in the main body.
Introduce the topic in your introduction.
Sum up your conclusions in the conclusion.
Practice delivering the presentation. Do this on your own at first and then
rehearse it in front of a small audience. This is the best way of becoming fluent
and the only way in which you can try things out and learn what changes need to
be made.
Make sure that you include a list of references that you have referred to in the
presentation.
You should discuss your presentation with your teacher but you should not
practice or rehearse it in front of him/her.
My Presentation Plan
Stage Points
Time
Visual aids
Introduction
Main body
Conclusion
Questions
Task 7: Deliver the presentation
This will be done in front of your classmates and will involve delivery of your information
plus a short period for answering questions. Your teacher will give you feedback on your
presentation as well as assessing it and your classmates may also be able to offer
useful advice.
Feedback on my presentation
Teacher
Classmates
Task 8: Plan and draft your report
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Use the feedback on your presentation to make any necessary changes to it.
Write your presentation up as a report with an introduction, main body and
conclusion.
Check that you have not copied from any of your sources without proper citation or
use of quotation marks.
Write a references list using APA conventions.
Submit a draft to your teacher for feedback.
Use the feedback to write a second draft.
Proofread it
Plan
Draft 1
Introduction
Body Paragraph 1
Body Paragraph 2
Body Paragraph 3
Body Paragraph 4
Conclusion
Teacher feedback
Draft 2
Task 9: Submit your report
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Put your report through SafeAssign.
Hand it in with the SafeAssign report by week 13. (No report will be accepted
without such a report.)