A document explaining how to start on your EPQ, what to download and where to look for things.
This is a Narrated PowerPoint describing what is where on this site. It contains the main pieces of information about EPQ.
This is a Narrated PowerPoint talking generally about the Paperwork required.
It is where you should upload your IPPF with your working title and your Project Calendars.
This is your plan for your writing for your Dissertation OR for your writing for your Investigation OR for the written background research relating to your Artefact (see p21 of the "Introduction to EPQ" booklet re planning your writing).
2) Research evidence version 1:
(The PPF should have the first few items you looked at for research into the viability of your title and no more, these should also appear in your Research Table).
For a dissertation this should consist of the Research Record Table (on GOL and should have been downloaded) full of entries showing what you have looked at and evaluated the usefulness of. It should contain all the sources you have look at and then selected from. TOP TIP - fill it in as you go along. You are aiming for a minimum of 20 sources actually used for a dissertation (good dissertations may well have significantly more than this). I would expect more than the number you use to appear in your Research Table as you should show that you have selected what you use from what you found. You are not expected to have necessarily completed all of your research.
For other routes, a Research Record Table, which is possibly not as long, but also take pictures of your sketches/storyboards/notebooks etc. to show a good chunk of preparatory research work has been done. Then either convert the images to a PDF or put the pictures into a document and save that as a PDF before uploading.
TARGET DATES TO UPLOAD BY:
1) Updated version of your PPF (PPF v2)
You may have added an amended timescale, thought of other additions or altered your title in some way for example. Changes should be visible either by striking through what is replaced or putting new material in a different colour. New timelines can be a new page in a different colour or new versions of the Project Calendars. Revised timelines can start from the point at which you changed them.
2) Updated version of your log (PAL v2)
This should be the version of your log up to this point.
1) your updated Research (v2)
- updated version of the Research Table
- first versions of any new parts of the short story or similar you will be writing and any updated versions of those created earlier and uploaded
- Any film scheduling, story boarding, characterisation, scripts, lighting etc. in preparation for the creation of a video artefact
- images of work done since the last assignment for art based artefacts, IMPORTANT: put them in a document and then save it as a PDF and submit only that.
- music files since the last assignment for music composition artefacts. Please put them in the folder already shared with both your mentor and myself on OneDrive (create one if you did not do so last time) and upload a document to GOL that states the name of the folder you have shared, the files that should be visible and what they relate to (good file naming helps here). Please do not try to upload the files themselves - it won't work.
- video files for films. Please put them in the folder already shared with both your mentor and myself on OneDrive (create one if you did not do so last time) and upload a document to GOL that states the name of the folder you have shared, the files that should be visible and what they relate to (good file naming helps here). Please do not try to upload the files themselves - it won't work.
2) "2000 words":
- the 2000 words you wrote for a dissertation or investigation - it does not have to be the introduction
- the first version of your written research for a Performance or an Artefact
1) your log up to this point.
2) as appropriate from the following:
- your dissertation/investigation first draft
OR
- images of your artefact work for art based artefacts since the last assignment leading to & first steps in creating the final piece. IMPORTANT: put them in a document and then save it as a PDF and submit only that.
OR
- any new music files since the last assignment and the first version of the final piece for music compostion artefacts. Please put them ithe folder already shared with both your mentor and myself on OneDrive and upload a document to GOL that states the name of the folder you have shared, the file that should be visible (good file naming helps here). This particularly applies to new files in a folder you may have already shared. Please do not try to upload the files themselves - it won't work.
OR
- any new video files since the last assignment and the first version of the final piece for film artefacts. Please put the files in the folder you should already have shared with both your mentor and myself on OneDrive and upload a document to GOL that states the name of the folder you have shared and the new files that should be visible (good file naming helps here). Please do not try to upload the files themselves - it won't work.
Candidate Record Sheet - signed by you - print, sign and then save as a PDF
PPF
PAL
Research Record
Abstract for dissertations and investigations
Outcome - the dissertation/ the investigation report / the artefact created and supporting development. If you have created an artefact then it should be a good picture of what you have created, and snaps of the work you did in your sketchbook. Create a PDF - drop the pictures in sequence into a Word document (or similar) and then save as a PDF.
Evaluation
Presentation slides - print 4 or 6 to a page on Word or a PDF writer and submit the Word or PDF file.