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- How to Make Your Coursework as Good as It Can Possibly Be
Many GCSE and A-level subjects are assessed in part by coursework in addition to exams, meaning that the mark you receive for coursework contributes to your overall grade. Many students prefer coursework, because it’s a chance to showcase your academic abilities away from the high-pressured environment of the exam room, making it ideal for those who don’t perform to the best of their abilities in exams. However, the time you have available for coursework, in contrast with the time constraints of the exam room, can lull some students into a false sense of security. Coursework is arguably just as challenging as exams, just in different ways – and, given the fact that you have more time, much higher standards are expected of you in coursework than in exams. Careful planning and research are needed for successful coursework, as well as strong data-gathering and essay-writing skills. In this article, we look at how to produce excellent coursework, from planning to proofreading. This information might also be useful to you if you’re planning on attending an Oxford Summer School this summer.
What is coursework?
GCSE and A-level coursework typically takes the form of an extended essay or project. Its objectives vary from one subject to another, but there’s usually an emphasis on the student conducting independent research into a topic of their own choice. Thus coursework often takes the form of some sort of investigation; it may, therefore, help to have your ‘detective’ hat on as you explore, investigate and analyse your topic. You can usually work on your coursework at home, though it’s sometimes completed under controlled conditions through sessions at school. To give you a better idea of how coursework varies from one subject to another, here are some examples:
- English – English coursework usually takes the form of an extended essay with a title of your choice. You’re usually given a choice of themes and/or texts to explore, and you could choose a format such as a comparison between a set text and another one.
- Geography – Geography coursework usually focuses on the gathering, reporting and interpretation of data designed to answer a particular geographical question. You could investigate usage of a shopping centre, for example, or look at erosion on a particular beach.
- Sciences – coursework for science subjects often takes the form of a scientific project or experiment that you conduct and report on yourself.
Before you start work on your coursework, it’s essential that you have a thorough understanding of the rules. Failing to conform to the rules – inadvertently or not – may result in your coursework (or possibly even your entire qualification) being disqualified, so it’s a serious matter.
- No plagiarism – this is particularly dangerous given the ready availability of relevant information on the internet these days. Make sure everything is in your own words; you’ll need to sign a declaration stating that it’s your own original work.
- There’s only so much help your teacher can give you . They can provide guidance on what you need to include, and on what the examiners will be looking for. You can ask them questions, but they’ll usually only be able to check through your first draft once and offer broad hints on updating it.
- Check the word count , and stick to it. Find out whether footnotes, appendices and bibliographies are included in the word count.
- Check what topics you’re allowed to do your coursework on; if there’s an exam on this topic, you’ll almost certainly have to choose a different one for your coursework.
Choose your topic wisely
Ideally, choose something you’re genuinely interested in, as your enthusiasm will come across and you’ll find it more enjoyable to write. If there’s something you’ve been working on for the course so far that you’ve particularly enjoyed, you may be able to focus more on this as part of your coursework. For science coursework, you’ll need to choose something to investigate that you can measure, change and control; it should be what’s called a ‘fair test’, meaning that you have to acknowledge all the controls you use in the experiment and why. Try not to pick a topic for which the scope is too vast, as you’ll struggle to research it properly and you’re unlikely to do it justice, and it’ll be hard to keep within the word limit. Ask your teachers for some guidance on choosing your topic if you’re not sure what to write about; they might even tell you a bit about what previous students have done to give you some inspiration.
Plan how long it’s going to take
Never leave your coursework until the last minute, even if this is your normal approach to essays and it usually works for you. Make sure you understand when the deadlines are, including time for submitting a first draft for comments from your teacher. Then schedule blocks of time for working on it, allowing plenty of time before the deadline to cater for any unexpected delays. Allow ample time for making corrections based on teacher feedback on your first draft, and keep some time aside before the deadline for final editing and proofreading. Because actual deadlines are few and far between, you’ll need to take responsibility for the writing process and impose some deadlines on yourself to ensure it’s finished in time. Write down your deadlines on a calendar, with the coursework broken into stages and dates assigned to each, by which time each task should be complete. You can base your stages on the next few points in this article – research and data gathering, a structure plan for the piece of work, writing up, and so on.
Conducting your research and gathering data
As coursework is primarily a research exercise, the research phase is crucial, so don’t be tempted to skimp on it and go straight to writing up. Use as many different resources as you can to gather data: books, journals, newspapers, television, radio, the internet and anything else you think might be relevant. For science and Geography coursework, you’ll need to base your work on a hypothesis, so the research stage should start by coming up with at least one hypothesis, otherwise your research will lack direction. The research phase for some subjects may involve site visits for gathering data, so allow plenty of time for this, particularly if you need your parents to drive you somewhere to do so. If it’s a scientific experiment you’re conducting for your coursework, you’ll need to pay careful attention to planning the experiment using rigorous scientific methods (also noting what Health and Safety precautions you are taking), as well as reading up on the background and theory so that you have an idea of what to expect from the outcome of your experiment. In the research stage, make notes about what you expect to happen, so that you can later compare your expectations with what actually did happen. The experiment itself also forms part of the research and data-gathering stage for your science coursework; in the write-up stage, which we come onto shortly, you analyse and write up the results.
Plan your structure
Once you’ve completed your research, the process of writing up begins. Before you get down to the actual writing, however, it’s advisable to write a plan for how you’re going to structure it – essentially an essay plan for English coursework and other subjects for which the coursework is based on an extended essay. It’ll look slightly different from an essay plan for science subjects and others that revolve around project work, but the principle is the same: plan out what order you’re going to present your information in. For big projects, this is particularly important, because with a lot of information to convey, you risk being disorganised and waffling.
Writing up your project
For any coursework, but particularly coursework based around an extended essay, you’ll need to perfect your essay-writing abilities. For science coursework, writing up your project also involves data analysis, as you interpret the results of your experiment and work your notes into formal scientific language.
When you’re writing up, it’s important to find a place where you can work quietly, without distractions that could cause you to make careless errors. You wouldn’t want noise or distractions when you were in an exam room, so treat your coursework with the same reverence.
Supporting materials and images
For some subjects, namely the sciences and Geography, it would be appropriate to include images, graphs, charts, tables and so on in your coursework. For example, for Geography coursework, your extra material could include annotated images and maps of the site you’re talking about, plus tables, graphs and charts. An appendix could then detail your raw data; if, for example, your coursework focused on the results of a survey, you could put the raw survey responses in an appendix and provide summaries and analysis in the main body of the coursework.
Footnotes and bibliography
As we said earlier, it’s important that you always use your own words in your coursework to avoid the possibility of falling foul of plagiarism rules. However, it’s acceptable to quote from another source, as you would in any piece of academic writing, but you must make sure that you state where it is from and use quotation marks to show that it’s a quote from somewhere else. The best way of citing another work is to use a footnote; word processors will allow you to insert one, and it just puts a little number at the end of the sentence and another in the footer of the document, into which you put the name of the author and work, and the page within that work that the quote can be found. At the end of your piece of work, include a bibliography that includes a list of every external source you’ve used in the creation of your coursework. Stick to a set formula when including books. A common format is: Author Surname, Initial. (Date) – Title of Book , page number For example: Lewis, C.S. (1960) – Studies in Words , p. 45 When you get to university, you’ll be expected to include footnotes and bibliographies in all your essays, so it’s a good habit to get into and coursework gives you good practice at it.
The final pre-submission check
Having completed a first draft, received feedback from your teacher, and honed your work into a finished piece of coursework, have a final check through it before you send off your coursework for submission.
- Sense check : have a read through your completed piece of work and check that it all makes sense. Make sure you haven’t contradicted yourself anywhere, or repeated yourself, or laboured the point. If there are any facts that you may have meant to look up to double check their accuracy, do so now.
- Word count : ensure that the completed work falls within the word count, and double check whether the bibliography should be included in the word count. If you’ve exceeded it, you’ll need to work through the piece and tighten up your writing, omitting unnecessary information, reordering sentences so that they use fewer words, and so on.
- Proofread : check your spelling and grammar, and ensure that there are no typos. Don’t just use the spellcheck – go through it with a fine toothcomb, manually, and if you can, ask someone to read through it for you to see if they spot anything you haven’t.
- Formatting : check that you’ve included page numbers, and that the font and line spacing is consistent throughout the work. Ensure that the font is plain and easy to read, such as Arial or Times New Roman.
- Bibliography : check that you’ve included everything, that the format is the same for all sources mentioned, and that the right information is included for each.
Once this stage is complete, you’re ready to submit your coursework along with your declaration that it’s entirely your own work. Get ready for a feeling of immense satisfaction when you finally send off your hard work!
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Topic outline.
- Select activity Syllabus content - what you need to know about Syllabus content - what you need to know about
You will have three assessments:
- Two theory papers:
- Paper 1 (Geographical Themes)
Paper 2 (Geographical Skills)
- One practical assessment
- either Component 3 (Coursework)
- or Paper 4 (Alternative to Coursework).
Your teacher will be able to tell you whether you are doing coursework (Component 3) or taking Paper 4.
- If you are doing coursework, you will complete one assignment and take Paper 1 and Paper 2 in the examination.
- if you are not doing coursework, you will take three papers in the examination, Paper 1, Paper 2 and Paper 4.
Make sure you always check the latest syllabus, which is available at www.cambridgeinternational.org .
- Select activity How you will be assessed How you will be assessed
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- Select activity What skills will be assessed? What skills will be assessed?
We take account of the following skill areas in your examination papers:
- your knowledge (what you remember) and understanding (how you use what you know and apply it to new situations)
- how you interpret and analyse information, e.g. data, graphs, diagrams, photographs
- how you make judgements and decisions, including conclusions, based on information.
These skills are called assessment objectives. They are explained in the sections below. Your teacher will be able to give you more information about how each of these is tested in the examination papers.
What does the AO mean?
Remembering facts and applying these facts to new situations
What do you need to be able to do?
Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of:
- the wide range of processes, including human actions, contributing to the development of a. physical, economic and social environments and their effects on the landscape b. spatial patterns and interactions which are important within these environments
- the relationships between human activity and the environment
- the importance of scale (whether local, regional or global)
- the changes which occur through time in places, landscapes and spatial distribution
How you select information and apply geographical understanding to explain the information
- Interpret and analyse geographical data
- Use and apply geographical knowledge and understanding to maps and in numerical, diagrammatic, pictorial, photographic and graphical form
- Use geographical data to recognise patterns in such data and to deduce relationships
- Select and show understanding of techniques for observing and collecting data
- Select and use techniques for organising and presenting data.
Being able to make judgements based on information and recognise possible decisions
Use your geographical training to:
- an appreciation of the attitudes, values and beliefs of others in issues which have a geographical dimension
- an awareness of the contrasting opportunities and constraints of people living in different places and under different physical and human conditions
- a willingness to review their own attitudes in the light of the views of others and new knowledge acquired
- the physical and human contexts in which decisions are made
- the values and perceptions of differing groups or individuals
- the choices available to decision makers
- the increasing level of global interdependence and the need for sustainable development.
- Select activity Command words Command words
- Select activity The flipcards below include command words used in ... The flipcards below include command words used in the assessment for this syllabus. The use of the command word will relate to the subject context.
- Select activity Example candidate response Example candidate response
- Select activity All information and advice in this section is spec... All information and advice in this section is specific to the example question and response being demonstrated. It should give you an idea of how your responses might be viewed by an examiner but it is not a list of what to do in all questions. In your own examination, you will need to pay careful attention to what each question is asking you to do.
- Select activity Question The question used in this example is from... Question The question used in this example is from Paper 1 and is an example of a structured-answer question. Now let’s look at the question to see what the ‘command words’ for this question mean for your answer. (c) For a named country you have studied, describe the problems caused by over population. Describe is the command word in this question. This means that you state the main features of the problems caused by overpopulation. Using examples is an excellent way of supporting your descriptions.
- Select activity Example candidate response and examiner comments Example candidate response and examiner comments
- Select activity (c) For a named country you have studied, describe... (c) For a named country you have studied, describe the problems caused by over population. Name of country: Ghana Ghana is noted to be one of the top countries known to be overly populated. With this, we see that there is pressure on Ghana’s resources. The population of Ghana is very high and because of this water supply would reduce, there would be pressure on the electricity in Ghana because so many people in the country are using the power. Ghana’s government revenue would reduce. The government of Ghana would put in a bit of money to improve medication to new ones, rebuild hospitals, care homes, provide new and well trained doctors, re-construct roads bring more water from another place where there is no supply of water. Ghana has a high rate of crime due to overpopulation. When there is a crowded area people who are uneducated would want to cause a scene and steal and kill people. There is a high spread of so many diseases in Ghana. Diseases such as cholera due to the water we drink as a country and also people use dirty hands to eat. When there are crowded, immediately one person gets the disease it spreads to another person and moves on. The settlements in Ghana are congested. An example is Nima. Nima is very congested and the homes are all together and there is even no space for a car to park. Over-population brings about unemployment because there are a lot of people in the country. Over-population brings noise.
- Select activity Revision Revision
- Select activity Explore the advice below to help you revise and pr... Explore the advice below to help you revise and prepare for the examinations. It is divided into general advice for all papers and more specific advice for Paper 1, Paper 2, and Paper 4.
- Find out when the examinations are and plan your revision so you have time to revise.
- Create a revision timetable and divide it into sections to cover each topic.
- Find out how long each paper is, how many questions you have to answer, how many marks there are for each question, and work out how long you have for each question.
- Find out the choices you have on each paper, make sure you know how many sections there are and which sections you should answer from.
- When there is a choice of questions in a section, make sure you revise enough to have a choice.
- Know the meaning of the command words used in questions and how to apply them to the information given.
- Look at past examination papers and highlight the command words and check what they mean.
- Make revision notes. Try different styles of notes.
- Work for short periods then have a break.
- Revise small sections of the syllabus at a time.
- Test yourself by writing out key points, redrawing diagrams, etc.
- Make sure you define geographical terms accurately, e.g. deforestation is not simply ‘cutting down trees’, it is ‘the total deliberate removal or clearance of forest/trees by cutting and/or burning at rates faster than natural regeneration or without replanting’.
- Definitions must not reuse the words to be defined. E.g. land pollution means the contamination (pollution) of the earth’s surface (land) by the unplanned or illegal disposal of waste substances.
- Make your own dictionary or draw up a glossary of key terms for each section of the syllabus. Look at maps, diagrams, tables, etc. to find out what they show; e.g., recognising landforms and settlement patterns on maps and photographs.
- Practise drawing clear, IGO, neat, fully-labelled diagrams and maps.
- Learn your case studies thoroughly. What do they show? How you might use them? Where in the world are they? Are they are local, regional, international or global scale?
- Make a list of case studies for each section of the syllabus.
- Look at past questions and decide which case study would be best to answer each one.
- Know your own local case studies, whenever possible.
- Learn to spell geographical terms correctly.
- Have a look at past questions so that you are clear of what to expect in an examination.
- Look at mark schemes to help you to understand how the marks are awarded for each question.
- Read the instructions carefully and answer the right number of questions from the right sections.
- Do not answer more questions than are needed, as this will not gain you more marks in the examination.
- Plan your time according to the marks for each question. For example, a question worth three marks requires less time and a shorter answer than one worth 10 marks.
- If a question has several parts, then the parts with more marks will need more time and more developed answers.
- Do not leave out questions or parts of questions.
- Remember, no answer means no mark.
- Identify the command words – you could underline or highlight them
- Identify the other key words and perhaps underline them too
- Try to put the question into your own words to understand what it is really asking.
- Read all parts of a question before starting your answer. Think carefully about what is needed for each part. You will not need to repeat material.
- Read the title, key, axes of graphs, etc. to find out exactly what it is showing you
- Look for dates, scale, and location
- Try using coloured pencils or pens to pick out anything that the question asks you about.
- Answer the question. This is very important! Use your knowledge and understanding. Do not just write all you know, only write what is needed to answer the question.
- Plan your answers. Clear, concise, well-ordered, well-argued, well-supported answers get more marks than long, rambling, muddled, repetitive ones. Quality is better than quantity.
- Use geographical terms in your answers as much as possible.
- Use the resource material given in the question to support your answer. Annotated maps, diagrams and graphs can help you, and be used to support your answer. Use them whenever possible but do not then repeat the information in words.
- Use case study material even when it is not required specifically by the question. Case studies and examples can come from your home area
- Make sure your writing is clear and easy to read. It is no good writing a brilliant answer if the examiner cannot read it.
- Look at the instructions on the front of the paper. You have to choose three out of the six questions, one out of two questions in each section so that you answer a question on each of the three themes.
- Do not try to answer all the questions, you will not have time to answer them properly.
- Write the answers to the questions in the spaces in the question and answer booklet provided, using this as a rough guide to the amount of detail and length of answer that is needed.
- If you run out of space continue the answer on the spare lined sheet at the back of the booklet. Make sure you number any continuation answers carefully and also indicate that your answer is continued on the extra page at the end of your partly-written answer.
- Look at the number of marks available for each part of a question. Do not spend too much time on one part if it is only worth one or two marks, or alternatively write only a short answer when a question is worth more marks.
- Timing is important, do not spend too much time on your first chosen question, otherwise you will have to rush the last question.
- Just in case you run out of time, if there is a question which you are not confident on, answer it last.
- Read the information given in the stem of the question carefully as well as the questions themselves.
- Wherever possible in your answers try to include relevant examples and case studies. There may be local examples which you could use in your answers.
- Where you are asked to complete an answer by labelling or drawing on a resource you must do this rather than writing an answer.
- If you use any extra sheets make sure that you put your name on them and attach them to your answer booklet before handing it in.
- When you are asked to use a written resource you will not be given marks for copying out sections from it.
- Look at the question you are being asked and try to show your understanding by answering in your own words.
- If you are asked to compare or describe the differences between two things it is no good just writing about one. You could use words like ‘bigger’ or ‘more’ to help you compare or a word like ‘whereas’ in the middle of your sentence, e.g. ‘a constructive wave deposits material on the coast whereas a destructive wave erodes material from it’.
- Try to be as precise as possible as vague statements are unlikely to get you many marks. e.g. ‘A Stevenson Screen is used to get accurate readings’ is far too vague. You need to give details explaining why readings are accurate when a Stevenson Screen is used (the louvers allow a free flow of air, the white surface reflects the sun’s rays, it allows you to take temperatures in the shade etc.).
- Make sure you know the differences between global environmental problems which you may have studied. Many people mix up global warming, ozone depletion and acid rain.
- You must also make sure you do not mix up causes and effects / consequences – you may be asked for one or the other so read the question carefully.
- This paper is testing a range of skills.
- Try to be as accurate as you can with measuring and plotting.
- Take your time, take care and always use a ruler to complete graphs and measure straight line distances.
- Many questions ask you to ‘use the evidence’ in the resources provided such as the maps, photographs and graphs.
- You must make sure that you do so rather than using your background knowledge, e.g. if you are asked to describe the features of an industry shown in a photograph there is no need to include general information about that industry and its location.
- If you are asked to describe features of a coastal area shown on a map there will be no credit for explaining how they were formed.
- If you are asked to use evidence from the map to explain why there are no settlements in some areas there is no point in referring to the climate as the map extract is unlikely to include information about it.
- Practise basic map skills, for example six-figure grid references. Candidates sometimes get the third and sixth figures confused.
- Make sure you give the reference for the position of the symbol rather than the name of the place.
- If you are asked to measure a distance it is worth using the linear scale below the map and a straight edged piece of paper. By doing this you will be less likely to make mistakes which are possible when using calculation to convert centimetres to kilometres and metres.
- Look carefully at what units you need to use, whether you should answer to the nearest kilometre or in metres.
- Make sure you always give the units in your answer rather than just writing down the number.
- You could be asked to give a direction or a compass bearing.
- Make sure you know the difference and check which of the features you are measuring from and to, by looking carefully at the wording of the question.
- If you are asked to draw a graph be as accurate as you can, measuring carefully and using a ruler.
- Take care to draw the type of graph that the question asks for rather than a different type of graph.
- Make sure you know how to draw and read a divided bar graph; it is used in a different way from a normal bar graph.
- This paper is an alternative to coursework and to prepare for it you need to be able to answer questions about collecting, presenting and analysing data like you would in a geographical investigation. There is nearly always a question that asks you to write a conclusion and an evaluation. You need to practise these skills.
- Many of these questions are based on a hypothesis. Make sure you are familiar with testing hypotheses.
- You will be given resources to use in the examination which you have not seen before, perhaps different types of graphs or diagrams. Look at the diagrams carefully and think carefully about what they are showing before you answer the questions. You may be asked to complete a diagram, in which case you need to complete it accurately and carefully.
- You will have to answer questions about data which has already been collected as part of an investigation. This could be a set of figures, graphs or maps. One of the things you will be asked to do is to recognise and describe patterns or trends, e.g. the distribution of rainfall over an area as shown on a map or over time as shown on a graph, the amount of erosion alongside a footpath as shown on a diagram. You should practise this skill, using data which you have collected yourself, or data from your teacher.
- If you are asked questions about the data in the resources you will be expected to use that data rather than simply listing or repeating the figures, e.g. you may be asked to compare two sets of data about different places, look for a relationship between two or more sets of data or recognise similarities and differences. However it is always useful to support your answer by referring back to the resource and quoting data from it.
- Learn about the different types of samples that can be used when collecting data – you may be asked to describe the advantages of using systematic or stratified sampling for example. Many candidates assume that the only sample that can be taken is a random sample.
- You may be asked to suggest practical ways in which something could be improved. This could be an actual investigation or something which has been investigated, e.g. the amount and distribution of pollution in a river. You will be expected to be realistic in your suggestions so always think about whether they are practical. For example to suggest that all the residents of a town should be interviewed rather than taking a sample is unrealistic. Similarly, to suggest that all factories alongside the river are shut down is not a suggestion which is practical.
- When asked to write a conclusion you need to look at the evidence and then say whether you think the hypothesis is correct or not. In a few cases it may be only partly correct. You must then give evidence to support your conclusion. This evidence must be based on the data provided in the question.
Theme 1: Population and settlement
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GENV 230 - Geography of Canada | 2024-2025
Japanese Language Classes available on campus
The University is running in-person Japanese language courses on campus, open to anyone aged 18 and over.
There are two courses available, one for beginners and the other for those who have previous basic knowledge of the language.
The courses will run for 20 weeks during term time only, starting 9 October 2024:
Fees per year
- Students: £162
- Staff, Alumni, Campus Partners: £182
- General Public: £202
Japanese 1, Wednesdays 4-6pm
Japanese 1 is designed for beginners with little or no knowledge of the language. The course covers a variety of everyday situations such as:
- Introducing yourself and others
- Telling the time
Classwork will emphasise listening, speaking, and practice of sentence structure. Self-study will consist of reviewing work done in class and practicing language skills, as advised by the tutor. Writing and reading Japanese letters (Kana) are also part of self-study, using the handouts provided and with the tutor’s support.
Japanese 2, Wednesdays 2-3.30pm
Japanese 2 is for learners who have previous basic knowledge of the language, such as verbs (masu form) and their conjugation with appropriate particles and adjective conjugation and how they modify nouns. Learners are expected to have had approximately 80 hours of previous study, 40 hours of contact time, and 40 hours of personal study.
Knowledge of Hiragana (reading and writing) is required, and knowledge of Katakana is desirable. Learners are expected to have covered ‘Japanese for Busy People I’ Level 1-14, or equivalent. The course will introduce new grammatical structures and focuses on how to express topics relevant to daily life, such as:
- Giving and receiving
- Inviting someone to do something together
- Making suggestions and offers
- Talking about one’s possessions, habitual action, ongoing action, and states
- Giving and asking for permissions and prohibitions
- Talking about one’s skills, preferences, symptoms etc
The course also introduces cultural aspects to understand the background of the language and people.
To register for the course, use the link below to the online shop.
For more information please email [email protected] .
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