research write up guidance

Research Write Up GuidanceAS91430

Some thoughts on writing up your research.

Please look at the NCEA website! http://

www.nzqa.govt.nz/assets/qualifications-and-standards/qualifications/ncea/NCEA-subject-resources/Geography/91430-B/91430-EXP-B.pdf

http://www.nzqa.govt.nz/qualifications-standards/qualifications/ncea/subjects/geography/annotated-exemplars/level-3-as91430-b/

Please keep all your planning and questionnaires!

You will need to hand in your research plan and your completed questionnaires.

You will need to write down any thoughts you have on how well your fieldwork collection went.

Be honest – any problems you encountered, anything you think you should have done differently – all this is part of your reflection.

Write it down now so you won’t forget.

Start collecting your secondary data.

Go back to your research plan and look at what else you intended to collect.

Complete research online and start getting all your information together in one place.

Make sure you always refer back to your aim – Have you got enough information to actually answer your question.

Present your information in the most appropriate way.

Tables Graphs, bar, pie, histogram, cartogram, line,

scatter etc.. Maps Sketch maps Annotated photographs.

Annotate your map to show the main features of the area.

Pie Graphs

Bar Graphs

Flow Line Maps

Cartogram – showing world population.

Chloropleth – uses colour to show features

Population Pyramids

Bar graph and map combined.

You could be inventive!

Sketch Maps.

So what do you need in your completed research project. 1. Research Plan and Aims. 2. Fieldwork – completed questionnaires/surveys. 3. Data and information you have collected presented

in an appropriate way. Tables, graphs, maps etc… 4. Conclusion – what did you find out, in relation to

your aims. 5. Reflections on your results. What did you do well,

what you could do better next time. Are there any limitations to what the information you collected can tell you? Did you need to collect more? Is any of it inaccurate or misleading?

6. Bibliography – websites, books, sources of secondary data.PLEASE LOOK AT YOUR INSTRUCTIONS FOR A MORE

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF WHAT IS NEEDED!