Very straightforward, you simply have to let us know who you are and what your
investigation is about so check that it includes the following information:
• title of your investigation
• your full name
• module name and code
• candidate number
• centre number
• school name
Contents page
This simply gives clarity to your work so ensure that it fulfils these criteria:
• provides a clear outline of the structure of your investigation
• lists the content of your appendices
Introduction
The introduction is an opportunity for you to outline your reasons for selecting
your task and provides the chance to give a little background information to help
contextualise your ideas and approaches. You should include:
• your reasons for choosing this focus for your investigation
• your hypothesis/research question
• how your topic fits into a wider context for language use
• how your research relates to some theoretical aspects of language
including reference to what you have read on these aspects
• your aims and objectives
• hypothesis: what you are expecting to find out
Methodology
In this section you should outline how you have collected your data and how you
went about ensuring that your data collection was not open to anomalies.
You should include:
• the methodology that you have chosen for your data selection
• problems (if any) that you encountered during the process of collecting your
data
• techniques that you used to ensure that your data was valid