Welcome Lavinia!
This is the place you go to get
updates on work while you are away from 28 February to 14 March 2017.
Handy links
The Oxford English
Dictionary http://www.oed.com (You might need to search for an OED app for your phone).
Thesaurus for
synonyms: http://www.thesaurus.com/
NZQA - look for AS91105 2.8A
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For AS2.8 you are expected to
form your own question independently (hypothesis to prove or disprove) and then
seek, locate, select, record and evaluate the information yourself. It is
expected that you form new understandings independently. You may collect
information in and out of class, so you may do this while you are away.
Because you will be away during the assessment deadline, you may have an
extension after you come back to write up a report of your findings when
you have returned. You need six pieces of evidence for your research and evidence that
is not from the research pack needs to be printed off and stapled to your
submission. You are expected to underline and annotate your piece of research.
"Annotate" means that you are expected to make notes at the
side of relevant paragraphs. Don't forget to keep the title of
the publication, author/s names, date of publication and URL address.
You need to plan a compare and contrast essay
for this assessment. There will be an
introduction, three main body paragraphs, and a conclusion. In each paragraph you
will need to use two pieces of evidence.
One piece of evidence will be used to argue for your hypothesis and the
other piece of evidence will be used to argue against it. Therefore, for three paragraphs you will need
a total of six pieces of research evidence.
Remember your paragraph structure:
Point
Explanation
Example (paraphrase or quotes)
Tie back to your main point, preferably with
a reference to the world or with a new idea or insight.
If you have spare time after your
research for AS2.8, start reading and thinking about writing a second personal
response form your research pack. This will go towards your AS2.9
Wide Reading Log It needs to be a differnt type of text from your first
one which was an academic journal article. So something like the news
article from the web near the end of the research pack would be suitable.
