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Tips and advice on supervising extended projects. Nicola Poppit and Carol Dell-Price.
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Skills and Top Tips in Completing Projects
Presentation Content
• The Research Process• Choosing a Project• Writing Plans• Time Management • Literature Reviews• Developing Information skills• Useful information sources• Completing Projects
The Research Process
Formulating and clarifying a topic Reviewing the literatureChoosing a strategy Collecting the dataAnalysing data Writing up
Choosing a Project • Choice • Motivation • Regulations and
expectations• Students subject or
field of study • Previous research
• Size of project • Time available • Cost of research • Resources available • Need for support • Access issues
Can’t Think of a Project?• Ask friends, family, lecturers • Look at/develop previous work • Relate it to your interests • Start from a quote • Follow your hunches • Mind Mapping • Be Prepared to Change direction
Writing Plan• Set deadlines • Write regularly • Write up a section as soon as it is
ready • Stop where it is easy to resume
writing • Leave space for revisions • Publicize your plans
Time Management • Inadequate primary research • Insufficient literature search • Handing in a project without any advice on draft
chapters • Incomplete sections • Inconsistency throughout • No constant links / themes• No proof reading • Poor presentation of final project
Literature Reviews • Evidence of reading • Include only relevant items• Locate information sources • Decide what you need to know • Select the topic• Define the terminology • Define the parameters • Select sources• Locate appropriate materials
Developing Information Skills
• Critical Thinking Exercise - http://lis.tees.ac.uk/infoskills_gen/critical/exercise.
• Internet Detective – • http://www.vts.intute.ac.uk/detective/
Useful Information Sources
Subject Guides • HEA subject Centreshttp://www.heacademy.ac.uk/subjectcentres• L&IS subject guideshttp://lis.tees.ac.uk/subject/• Websites for visitorshttp://lis.tees.ac.uk/links/
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Useful Information Sources
Intute - http://www.intute.ac.uk/
DISSC - http://lis.tees.ac.uk/dissc/
Google Scholar
Extended Project• Excellent Opportunity to experience HE
library http://lis.tees.ac.uk/
• Limited to Print collection
• External membership available
Completing Projects • Clear aims & objectives• Literature review • Sound methodology
• reliability and validity, ethics
• Accuracy in interpretation of results• Qualified assertions (NOT sweeping statements)
• Important to cite and reference
• Presentation• Logical approach
• discussion and links throughout the work
A COHERENT PROJECT