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Extended Project Qualification: Writing your report

Work your way through this page, doing all the exercises carefully. By the time you have finished you will be ready to write your report.

Setting up your report document

Stages in academic writing

JCQ regulations: What MUST I include

How do I find my candidate number?

STOP! Do this now and write it down somewhere

Setting up a OneDrive document

STOP! Do this now. NOTE that where this image says Surname-HPQ-Report-Draft-1 please put Surname-EPQ-Report-Draft-1

Where should I be?

You should now have set a document up in your EPQ OneDrive folder and have made a note of your candidate number.

When you have done this, continue to the instructions below.

Setting up sections

Title page

STOP! Set up your title page now. NOTE that your COURSE CODE is 7993 (EPQ) and the Word Count you are aiming for is 5,000 words (for artefact it is a minimum of 1,000 with no fixed maximum).

Header and footer

STOP! Set up your header and footer now, remebering that your course code is 7993.

Possible structure

Report structure document

Look for the report structure document in your file (or download another copy from the box on the right). Read it through carefully to remind yourself of all the things you need to think about when writing your report.

Where should I be?

Pause for a moment and have a good look at the Report Structure document. You should have a copy in your folder but if not you can download one from the box to the right of this page. You don't have to use exactly this structure (particularly if you are writing an artefact report, where you might choose, for example, to structure your report chronologically and MUST have a section looking at how you evaluated your artefact). However, you should make sure you cover all these ideas.

All done? Move on to thinking about your bibliograpy and captions.

Bibliography and captions

Bibliography

STOP! Have a go at this now. You don't have to add all your sources immediately, but start with one or two to make sure you know what you are doing. You'll want to come back and add as many as possible before you start writing to make the writing process as easy as possible. Use the Citing and Referencing tab of this guide to help you.

Captions

Something to think about if you use any images. Remember that if they are not your own images they must be cited too.

Setting up your report structure

STOP! Do this now

PEEL paragraphs

There are other ways to structure paragraphs, but this is often a good start...

Where should I be now?

You should have a document with:

  • Title page
  • Header
  • Page numbers
  • Section headings (using the heading styles, and with a rough 'target' word count for each section)
  • Table of contents
  • Bibliography (with most of your sources in)

Now you are ready to start writing your report...

Report structure