WELCOME AND INTRODUCTION

Well done for surviving the exam period everyone, and good luck with your results, which will come out Thursday March 12th.

For Media you will get your Debates result as well as confirmation of your coursework mark. From there you will be able to see the mark you will need to score on your final exam in order to achieve the grade you are hoping for.

At that point, the Media Dept will produce a list of priority students - these will be the people who are at risk of dropping a grade if they underperform in the final exam. We will be working very closely with you to ensure this doesn't happen. A normal level of support will be provided for the rest of you.

Your final exam is called 2734: Critical Research. This blog is devoted to this paper and will contain all the information, teaching notes, dates and deadlines and anything else you might need. This blog complements your course folder, where we have printed anything else you will need that cannot be blogged. You own individual research blogs are linked to the main one, and all your work will be recorded and published here.

You will need to post your work regularly as evidence that it has been completed. Please avoid the following excuses about lack of work:

1. I've got it saved as a word document and haven't posted it yet
2. The internet is down at home and I can't access blogger.
3. I posted my work but now it's disappeared.

Your blogs should contain the following:

1. An explanation of the topic area you are interested in, and what you are doing to research around it
2. An explanation of your choice of focus area and why you have chosen it
3. Your weekly action plan structured around the framework provided.
3. An ongoing diary of what you have been doing for your research
4. A record of research sources (both really useful ones and not so useful ones)
5. A record of research methods you have used/ are using.
6. Links to specific articles, papers, video clips and other relevant links, organised into linked lists
7. Analysis of key documents/ links to show their relevance to your focus area
8. Questionnaires, surveys or results of these, again identifying what and why.
8. Sections of your final essays, as specified by your teachers.

Please avoid:
1. Copying huge chunks of text into your blog from a website
2. Links, videos, imagery, text of any kind without any explanation or analysis.

Please remember to name each post and use labels - this will make your exam prep really easy to manage.