Med 5 Deadline

As you already know (but it can't hurt to be reminded) the deadline for the first draft of your Independent Study coursework is...

• Monday 5th February

By this date, a complete 3000 word first draft should have been posted up onto your blog, along with footnotes and a complete, detailed bibliography (set out correctly). If you're in any doubt about what this should look like then please check out some of the finished grade 'A' and 'B' Independent Studies from last year.

These will also be helpful when thinking about how to write your essay (what to include in the introduction and conclusion, how to structure the work, how to set out quotes, the correct tone, and how much research to include - they each contain between 20 and 40 footnotes, etc.)

But please ensure that all writing is done in your own words. Plagiarism is a very serious business and anyone found simply copying from other sources (either students or books/websites) will be in real trouble. And you will be found out if you do! We're not stupid - we know how you write, and we know very well what was in the previous studies (and there are numerous online checkers that we can feed your work into to see if it has been plagiarised).

The other thing you'll need to do is hand in a hard copy (on paper) in your first lesson nearest the deadline (so Monday 5th February for 13C, and Tuesday 6th February for 13D). This should be set out in one and a half spacing, and justified on both left and right hand sides.

Good luck!!