13A - HW - Due 4/2/11

Research your new and digital media topic area in detail. Post all your research to your blog. Then complete your new and digital media booklet in detail giving specific examples from your research. Due 4/2/11.

Coursework - 1st Draft

The following needs to be completed by Monday 31st January. (Tuesday 1st for 13C1)

• Complete your first draft of your Critical Investigation.

• It must be a word processed 2000 word essay (with a precise word count included at the end).

• Also, include correctly set out references, quotes and footnotes. Footnotes should take the following form - Author Surname, Author First Name Initial (Year of Publication), Page Number(s). e.g...Lacey, N. (2009). p. 122.

• Where the next reference is from the same text and the same page use ibid. (in italics). This means 'in the same place' in Latin. If it's from the same text but a different page you include the new page reference too. e.g. ibid. p23.

• A full bibliography must be submitted. (See the Xmas Book Research Task for help with this) . The first section should be titled 'Works Cited' and will contain everything that you make direct reference to in your essay. Divide it into 'Books', 'Newspapers & Magazines', 'Internet' and 'Moving Image Texts'. The second section should be called 'Works Consulted' and will cover all the additional research you did but that didn't necessarily get directly quoted. This should have the same subheadings as the first section. Use BibMe to help you do this correctly, using the APA format for books. e.g. Lacey, N. (2009). Image and Representation (2nd ed.). New York: Palgrave Macmillan.

• Two copies are necessary. Hand in a hard copy (on paper) on the deadline day, and this needs to have one and a half spacing. Also paste it up on your blog.

If you're in any doubt about what this all should look like then please check out some of the finished grade 'A' and 'B' essays from (2010), (2009), (2008), (2007), (2006). But remember that all of these 9apart from 2010) were for a different specification and had to be 3000 words, unlike yours (which should be 2000).

They will be helpful, though, 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 - you should aim for around 30.)

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).

This is the big one so no excuses and good luck!!

13A - Globalisation HW - Due 21/1/11

Read all of the handout on globalisation, highlighting the key points.

‘The news automatically becomes the real world for the TV user and is not a substitute for reality, but is itself an immediate reality’ (Marshall McLuhan)

On your blog make at least two points which agree with this statement and at least two points which disagree. Use as much theory as posible to back up the points you make.

Due 21 January 2011

13C - Work for 12/1/11 and 13/1/11

While I am giving tutorials you must continue to attend all lessons. Please work in DF06 on the following:

Read at least 2 A grade Critical Investigations from last year (there are links to these further down the blog). Look at the assessment criteria you wrote down in your books (or check the aqa website). On your blog explain why the 2 students where given A grades.

Then continue writing your Critical Investigation (you should have written the introduction and first paragraph over the Christmas holidays). Email your work so far to lwigley at the end of each lesson.

Use your time wisely!

13A HW Due 14/01/11

Read the article ‘The death of a newspaper’ and from the discussions in class and what you have read write a detailed letter to Rupert Murdoch in which you challenge his view for charging for online news content.

Due 14/01/11

13C - Critical Investigation Tutorials

Please sign up for your Critical Investigation Tutorial as soon as possible by adding a comment with your name and the date/time you would like to attend. The available dates/times are

12/01/11 - 9.40 - 10.05am
12/01/11 - 10.05 - 10.30am
13/01/11 - 8.50 - 9.15am
13/01/11 - 9.15 - 9.40am
13/01/11 - 9.40- 10.05am
13/01/11 - 10.05 - 10.30am
19/01/11 - 9.40 - 10.05am
19/01/11 - 10.05 - 10.30am
20/01/11 - 8.50 - 9.15am
20/01/11 - 9.15 - 9.40am
20/01/11 - 9.40 - 10.05am
20/01/11 - 10.05 - 10.30am
26/01/11 - 9.40 - 10.05am
26/01/11 - 10.05 - 10.30am
27/01/11 - 8.50 - 9.15am
27/01/11 - 9.15 - 9.40am
27/01/11 - 9.40 - 10.05am

Remember I am also available to help with first drafts every Monday after school until 31/1/11.

13C HW - Due 12/01/11

Please email your bibliography and detailed essay plan including theory and quotations to lwigley@greenford.ealing.sch.uk by 12/01/11 so that I can provide you with feedback on your progress.