Non-exam-assessmentnesses,
today I need you to feed back your findings from the reserach task yesterday and comment on each other's posts. I also need you to find an 'information' style model about a language issue in one of our study areas e.g. gender, accent/dialect, child language, language change etc.
A serious point is the importance of keeping a bibliography of anything you read and make notes from. A long bibliography looks good, for starters, but more importantly you might end up putting ideas in your coursework that come from sources that are not in your bibliography if you are not careful, and that is plagiarism. You can be withdrawn from all AQA exams if you sign to say you have credited all sources and you haven't.
You can use one of the online Harvard referencing programs to help you - there are many but it is wise to keep a backup copy on another program e.g. on Word. Also back up your coursework regularly by emailng it to yourself or putting another copy on a thumb drive.
Today:
1) post what you found out yesterday that you could test with a Harvard reference at the bottom
2) find an informative style model about lanugage (you don't have to write about language in the coursework but this doubles-up the reading for your investigation and creative work)
3) list the conventions and effective techniques of the style model you have chosen in a blog post with a link to the text - what have you learned about writing in this form for this audience and purpose? What have you learned about language issues?
4) comment on other people's blog posts with what data they could test the theory they posted with and what they could consider in terms of collecting data - start with the two people after you on the register so everyone gets comments. Find out who that is from me.
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