UOL SR AW 15

Assessment Workshop: Introductions

• The first section of your proposal presentation will be the introduction
• The introduction is a critical part of any assessment so if you find yourself rewriting it multiple times, that is not a bad thing ​
• You will present your research topic and explain why it is important and interesting. ​
• The introduction should also state the relevance of your research question to the larger world, and to multiple audiences in that larger world. ​

Structure of an Introduction

Statement of research question and its importance to wider scholarship /policy/world

Summary of background information

Justification - Why is your proposed research worthwhile/valuable

Question and objectives – Reader should have no doubt as to what research hopes to achieve

And now!

• Your task now is to draft the introduction for your proposal presentation
• You completed an introduction for your Literature Review which can be a base BUT this will need refining and improving
• By now your topic should be more refined and focussed
• You should have done further reading, which will give you better background knowledge
• Also this time it is as a presentation not a written assessment

• Yow now have the remainder of the session to work on this
• For your reference below are simplified versions of the relevant section from the mark scheme

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