1. Week 3 Review Home Study
including your Learning styles questionnaire, Reflective Journal, Mind Map on motivation and time management log
Vote for the best mind map
Essay Writing including Sources of Information and Referencing
Presentation Skills
Academic Referencing – why do we do it?
Academic Referencing – the Harvard system

2. Mind maps on motivation
Share the mind map you have produced.
How do other people’s compare with yours?
Is there a best one within the group?

3. Essay/Assignment Writing
1 Clarify the task
2 Collect and record information
3 Organise and plan
4 Reflect and evaluate
5 Write an outline plan and first draft
6 Work on your first draft
7 Final Drafts

4. Clarify The Task Analysing the Title Pick it to bits Focus on it
Academic Keywords
Focus on it
Make notes
Use the Title
Put it where you can see it
Keep checking the wording
Introduction and Conclusion

5. Collect & Record Information
Helpful to list:
What information you need and
Where you are likely to find it
Read books and journals, identify possible quotations to support your writing

6. Information Sources Lecture notes/handouts Books Journals
Reference works
Internet
Other printed media
Videos
Experiments
Fieldwork
Other people

7. Plagiarism and Referncing
Academic dishonesty – making out someone else’s work, ideas or words are your own when they are not.
Intentional or unintentional
Never falsify the results of any research and
Always give full credit for any other people’s contributions to your own achievements = Referencing

8. References You MUST use a reference whenever you:
• Use a direct quotation from a source of information.
• Paraphrase
• Use statistics or other pieces of specific information, which are drawn from a source you have read.

9. Harvard Referencing Have a look at the separate handout.
Question -Why does HE use references?
So that other people can check, to see if our interpretation agrees with others, to see what the existing body of knowledge is, to contextualize our work
Evidence based research.

10. A List of References – this includes all the sources of information you have actually quoted from, paraphrased or referred to in your work.
Bibliography – this includes all your references, plus all the other sources of information you have used to help you write your piece of work. A bibliography shows better than a list of references how widely you have read around your subject.

11. Golden Rules Be consistent Attention to detail!
If source doesn’t fit include enough information for your reader to find and check that source
Do it as you go along and keep them safe.
In the case of books, take the details you need for your reference from the title page and the back of the title page, not from the cover of the book.

12. Harvard Referencing Exercise
Using a selection of books produce a bibliography of references using the Harvard system.
We will do this exercise in the library, perhaps in pairs?

13. Referencing
Swap your list of references with someone else/another pair.
Using the referencing guidelines check their work.

14. Presentation Techniques

15. Think About
Audience
Information
Where
Time

16. Planning Purpose Media/Visual Aids 9 o’clock news Structure & level
Questions
Contingency Plans

17. People pay more attention to the WAY you say things than what you say…

18. Only 10% of communication comes from words….
30% Tone of Voice
Perhaps 70% Body Language!!
Estimates – but general agreement that circa 70% of communication is through body language

19. Body Language Entrance – first impressions Position and Posture
Tones and Gestures

20. Summary Preparation and Planning
It’s not what you say but how you say it
No-one need know that you’re nervous!!

21. Your task
To prepare and deliver a presentation as part of the assessment process for the module

22. How is the presentation you will do going to be assessed?
Suggestions:
Content
Structure
Delivery: tone, pace, volume
Visual Aids: clarity, appropriateness
Non-verbal communication
Dealing with questions
Are there any specific things you consider it appropriate to be assessed against?

23. Self study Prepare a presentation. Topic - motivation
Be ready to deliver it at the next session – we may not have time available for everyone’s! But we will continue the week after
Perhaps use a mind map to help you plan it?
Include references – follow the Harvard referencing system.
Learning log
Think about essay topic for your 1000 word essay