Bellerbys College Cambridge

Project Activity Log
Learner Name	SHAKENOVA Lyazzat		Learner number
Centre Name	Bellerbys College Cambridge		Centre Number
Unit Name	P301 Dissertation		Unit number	10/01/2013
Teacher Assessor	Anne Dorey
Proposed project title	Does the UK still need a monarchy?
This form should be used to record the process of your project and be submitted as evidence with the final piece of work. You may want to discuss: · what you have done (eg, from one week to the next) · if you are working in a group, what discussions you have had · any changes that you have or will need to make to your plans · what resources you have found or hope to find · what problems you are encountering and how you are solving them · what you are going to do next
Date	Comments
6/12/12 - 12/12/12	I finished my project proposal form and started to do write the plan.
13/12/12 - 15/12/12	Finished writing the plan and started some secondary research.
10/01/13	Continue doing the secondary research. I found three different resources all about the meaning of the royal family in todays society and especially about the Queen. They are all quite objective what is useful to start the project with, because it introduces in the current position of the royal family in the UK today.
17/01/2013	I wrote a new project plan and did two evaluations of internet sources. I evaluated them very carefully trying not to miss any of the main points that the author wanted to say. These evaluations are about the nations opinion of the Queen and both include answers from people all over the country to questions like “what do u think of the royal family and the Queen?; Do you think whether we should or shouldn’t have monarchy anymore?” so that I could point out what the nation thinks. Of course I can not judge yet as I haven’t done any primary research yet and don’t know the reasons why the people like or don’t like monarchy in the UK.
24/01/2013	I rewrote my plan because I didn’t manage to do any secondary research on my Christmas holidays when I was in my own country because I spent the whole holidays in the village where my grandparents live and unfortunately they didn’t have any Internet access so I couldn’t conduct my secondary research. Today I did one internet research which was a debate so it was quite useful for me to see how people argue about the monarchy so that I could evaluate all the benefits and the damages of the monarchy to the UK. I also conducted six different types of printed resources which I’m going to evaluate soon.

7/02/2013	Today I have conducted my 20^th internet source, and I found it absolutely relevant to my topic as there is plenty of information about the history of the monarchy what is also a missing part in all of my secondary research so I think that it is a lucky day for me. Also I have planned my dissertation structure. I intend to finish my literature review by the 13^th of February. Also, today I have had the mid-term review with my teacher and where we discussed next steps of my project – dissertation plan, missing information in my research, what is the better way of organising the style of my dissertation and the main issues which could suit and describe my research topic best.
21/02/2013	Today I have been continuing writing my literature review. In my plan I had to finish my literature review by the 12^th of February, however I did not manage to finish on time because I had some important exams and therefore had to be fully concentrated on the preparation for those exams. I intent to finish my literature review by the 28^th of February and at the same time conduct my primary research to catch up with my plan. Then I will write up my primary research according to the plan by 5^th of March. Today I have also discussed with my supervisor some important points that I have to consider in my literature review. We have revised things like the reporting language and how the literature review must be written, referencing so that escaping making plagiarism. We have also talked about the formal academic register. We spoke about how I am going to do my primary research and I have been given hand-outs with all of those important criteria which must be considered. After the discussion with my teacher I understood how I am going to write and organise the literature review and what way is best to do it.
25/02/2013	Today I have re-read all the information that I have. I have finished the history of the monarchy and the current situation. I think that I need some more things to write in those sections tomorrow.
26/02/2013	Today I have written roughly about another 500 words. I started doing the sectors of opinions and attitudes and the arguments for. I still intend to add some more to the two previous sectors about the history and the current position of the monarchy. On Friday I will talk to my teacher in Politics about the monarchy. This will be a part of my primary research.
27/02/2013	I have written another 1000 words today in my literature review. Currently I have 2200 words in my literature review. I am going to correct them as soon as I cover all of my 20 internet resources. I have also prepared questions for my primary research. I will publish them on Survey Monkey and I will interview some of my teachers in Politics and History in order to have some specialist views as well. I will ask them the same questions because I want to compare the viewpoints of people who have actually read about it and have a specialist view and of those who do not really have any clear concept of what the benefits and downsides of monarchy are.
7/03/2013	I have spoken to my supervisor about the project presentation. I have learned some essential skills in order to make my presentation easy to understand and speak the way that will not make people feel bored. I have crated a power point presentation first draft about the monarchy. I will add more information and pictures to the ppt. I will prepare my speech for the presentation and practice it with my supervisor in order to speak fluently during the presentation and not be nervous.
14/03/2013	Today I have finished editing my presentation. I also collected my essay from my teacher and we have discussed the mistakes I have made. I have made plagiarism so I need to paraphrase them. I will send the edited essay to my teacher on the next week.
18/04/2013	Today I have been correcting my essay and evaluation of the project. I will need to do a further work in order to make them more organised structure.

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