INDIVIDUAL RESEARCH REPORT SUBMISSION
It is important that you submit your work both in paper format for your teacher to review and in a digital format (Turnitin). This is because we need to review the originality of your work in the printed Turnitin report and submit it digitally to the exam board.
PART 1: FORMATTING, STRUCTURE & CONTENT
Please ensure that you have included all of the below in both your digital and printed copies of your Team Project writeup.
General layout:
The Research Report itself
Introduction:
It is very important that all of this work is submitted as ONE document.
General layout:
- 12 point font (either Times New Roman or Arial)
- 1.5 line spacing
- At least 1” margins around the writing
- Header on every page except the cover page showing student name, number
- Every page has a page number in the header
- Word count typed in for Main essay (<2,000 words) (not fictitious!)
- Your name in full with your family name in capitals
- Your student number
- Centre Number: HK010
- Centre Name: Island School
- Topic - should be one of the 8 that can be investigated in the IRR
- Your research question is clearly stated
- On a separate page! With the heading “Contents”
- It is NOT page 1 (start your page numbering on the next page)
- Laid out with 2 columns – heading and page
- Make sure the page numbers you give are correct!
The Research Report itself
Introduction:
- State your the topic area and your question clearly in the introduction
- Say what inspired the research
- Say what you hope to achieve in the essay
- Leave out all the personal, emotional “I”s
- State why it is worth researching the question / hypothesis – give it some merit.
- Outline the perspectives that you be exploring in this research report.
- Give an overview of the various stakeholders or viewpoints that you will look at in this research report also.
- Are all sections totally relevant to the topic
- Local/National Perspective (Have you discussed the issue in Hong Kong/China)
- Global Perspective (Have you discussed the issue in another country)
- Have you made comparisons between the various issues and perspectives under study?
- Have you reviewed the issue from various viewpoints and stakeholders perspectives?
- Have you included some ideas and solutions to solve the issues?
- Have you discussed what is good and bad about these solutions?
- Are ALL your direct quotes cited?
- Have you cited, every time you used someone else’s ideas?
- Have you used footnotes where necessary and do the numbers continue from one page to the next?
- Have you summarised your main points in the conclusion?
- Have you offered a personal judgment giving your own views, opinions and ideas on the issue?
- Have you linked your personal views to the evidence that you have found in your research?
- Did you introduce any new ideas or data? If so, TAKE IT OUT NOW!!
- Is it clear from your last paragraph exactly what your “verdict” is regarding your question?
- Have you included EVERY book, website, magazine, etc that you mentioned in your work?
- Have you used THE SAME format for every single entry?
- Have you checked the spelling?
It is very important that all of this work is submitted as ONE document.
PART 2: SUBMISSION
You must come to the next lesson with a printed copy of your Turnitin Report.
The digital version of your IRR will be collected through Turnitin. It is very important that this is done for two reasons as we need an electronic copy to submit to the exam board and we need to ensure that your work is your own.
Make a separate copy of your bibliography on a separate document and also submit this to turnitin. |
Turnitin Help: How to register with the right class on Turnitin.com?
While we recognise that you may get inspiration from other sources for your work, you must ensure that all coursework is written in your own words. Even copying a phrase from some other place, be it the Internet, a book or another person’s work, is called plagiarism. It also includes excessive assistance from someone else, such as a tutor, classmate or relative. To help you recognise plagiarism (and avoid it!) your teachers will talk to you about it in class, and we ask all students to submit their work in hard copy and through ‘turnitin.com’.
If your teacher thinks you have plagiarised in your assignment, you run the risk of being disqualified from the course. If the exam board think you have plagiarised, their is a strong possibility you will be disqualified from ALL Cambridge IGCSE exams.
DO NOT risk it! If unsure about plagiarism, then always ask your teacher.
On each coursework cover sheet you are asked to sign a statement that the work submitted is your own. Your teacher must confidently be able to sign to confirm that the work is your own.
If your teacher thinks you have plagiarised in your assignment, you run the risk of being disqualified from the course. If the exam board think you have plagiarised, their is a strong possibility you will be disqualified from ALL Cambridge IGCSE exams.
DO NOT risk it! If unsure about plagiarism, then always ask your teacher.
On each coursework cover sheet you are asked to sign a statement that the work submitted is your own. Your teacher must confidently be able to sign to confirm that the work is your own.
How to read a turnitin report.The report generated by Turnitin is simply the start of a conversation that should take place between yourself and your teacher. It is impossible to simply look at a figure and judge if your work is plagiarized, rather you should look at the report and the similarities that are presented, making a judgement for each area. You may need to adjust your referencing within your essay. Watch the video before looking at the examples below, trying to identify what issues each piece faces.
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