A2 Language computer room lesson and Tuesday's lesson - conclusions and evaluations

Hopefully healthinesses,

I've been in and out of hospital this week with a resurgence of the chest infection that had me off last time. That's what you get for not getting properly better before you come back. Sigh.

I'm on massive amount of painkillers so I hope this makes sense.

It's time to work on conclusions and evaluations. It makes sense to combine these because this is where you get some sophisticated context marks for AO3 and evaluate (AO1) your methodology (AO2).

Conclusion: tentatively offer alternative interpretations as to why the most significant or interesting findings seem to be the case in the context of specific GRAPEs, giving an overview. Don't repeat what you have already said if you have taken an evaluative approach as you've gone along (well done); instead, try and give more of an overview of how aspects you have looked at link together, and say how far your hypotheses are supported/contradicted (NOT PROVEN/DISPROVEN!).

Either seperately as your Evaluation or, if it makes sense to explain as you go along what you can/cannot tell from the data you have collected, evaluate at each point what you would need to have done differently to make the findings appropriately reliable/comparable/generalisable or even more ethical if you had problems with that. You can suggest what you might do to extend the investigation if you were to take it further if there is something interesting or more convincing remaing to explore with more time/word-count/funding etc.

Try and get in aspects like evaluating which were the most/least successful ways of approaching/quantifying the data and why.

Try not to be self-critical but do be self-reflective - you need to try not to put yourselves down but instead be thoughtful about the difficulties you faced.

If you can't be working on that, work on media texts or search through my archives for wider reading on Language Change issues, leaving comments to show you've been there, please.

Don't forget to continue working on basic grammar - there's a featured post on my blog and others further down to help.

There's also some interesting other wider reading available to comment on.

Email me if you need support,

good luck,

Halla