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Submission is ONLY online. Deadline: Monday 22 March 2021 by 14:00 UK time.
Applies to all English for Academic Purposes language modules.
The main piece of coursework is the Project (1500-2000 words), worth 30%, which also forms the basis of the Oral (Video) Examination for English Language Skills for Academic Purposes.
Examples will be discussed in class. You will complete various tasks related to this throughout the year.
CLIE EAP tutors will assist you with Project planning in class; this will help you focus and make sure you are on the right track.
There are four stages to writing your Project:
1. Topic and title: Discuss and agree the topic and title or question you intend to write your Project on with your CLIE EAP tutor by Friday 18 December 2020.
2. Proposal: Present a statement of the subject of your Project and the reasons you have chosen this topic (plus indicate the sources you intend to use) in class in the first week of Term 2. Following discussion and feedback, you should submit this in writing by email to your CLIE EAP tutor by Friday 22 January 2021.
You must use the CLIE Language Modules Project Proposal Form to submit your proposal.
If you need to amend your Proposal after submission you should amend your existing Proposal Form and resubmit it.
3. Draft: Submit a draft of your Project. This will allow your CLIE EAP tutor to give feedback on structure and content, and also alert you to any main grammatical issues.
Your draft should be submitted to your CLIE EAP tutor IN YOUR CLASS in the week BEFORE Reading Week 2 (i.e. in the week 08-12 February 2021).
Your draft will be returned to you, with feedback, IN YOUR CLASS within the two weeks AFTER Reading Week 2 (i.e. in the weeks 22-26 February 2021/01-05 March 2021).
You must use the CLIE Language Modules Project Draft Form to submit your draft.
4. Completion and submission: Submit an electronic version of your Project by Monday 22 March 2021 at 14:00 UK time.
You will receive feedback on your Project, and the provisional mark, from your CLIE EAP tutor seven (7) calendar days before the submission date for the Video Examination.
Format of your Project
Typed with double-spacing between lines.
Acceptable formats for your Project
Word (.docx, .doc) or PDF (.pdf), unless your tutor has advised otherwise.
ALL material you are submitting must be combined into this one file.
Deadline
The submission deadline for your Project deadline is Monday 22 March 2021 at 14:00 UK time (unless you have an extension). However, we encourage you to submit earlier if you have finished your Project, and to not leave submission until the last minute in order to allow for any technical issues when uploading.
You can only submit ONCE, so after you have submitted your Project it is NOT possible to resubmit it.
Naming your submission
You must name your Project in this structure:
[Module]-[Delivery]-Project-4-Complete-[SURNAME,Forename]-[StudentNumber]
You will be emailed your individual unique filename to use.
Cover/Coversheet
On the first page of your Project you should include:
- Your full name.
- Your student number.
- The module you are taking.
- Your Project title.
- Your number of words.
There is NO separate CLIE coversheet.
Submission of your Project
Submission will be online ONLY. Submission is via the Moodle course for the language module. Once you are on the Moodle course, click on the Project submission link.
Submission will open on Monday 15 March 2021 at 10:00 UK time.
You must submit your Project in ONE part. This must contain:
- Your Project (the work written by you).
- Your references/highlighted sources, as an appendix at the end of your Project
Your Proposal (stage 2) and Draft (stage 3) should already have been submitted to your CLIE EAP tutor, so you should NOT include them with your Project (stage 4) submission.
By submitting your Project to the CLIE you confirm that:
- Your Project is entirely your own work except where explicitly and individually indicated and that you have read, understood and followed the UCL CLIE Project Guidelines for this course (in the CLIE Language Modules Student Handbook 2020-2021, EAP modules pp42-44) and UCL Academic Integrity guidance.
- You have discussed and agreed the topic/title with your CLIE language tutor.
Software suggestions for working with pdfs:
UCL recommends PDFsam Basic (https://pdfsam.org/pdfsam-basic/), which can split, merge, extract pages, mix and rotate PDF files
On a Mac you can use Preview (see https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202945)
Online:
- https://www.ilovepdf.com/merge_pdf
- https://www.pdf2go.com/merge-pdf
- https://www.freepdfconvert.com/merge-pdf (also converts .doc to .pdf and vice-versa)
Software suggestions for scanning:
Online:
Android and iOS:
- Adobe Scan PDF Scanner
- Scanner App to PDF
- Tiny Scanner
- Microsoft Office Lens - PDF Scanner
These all turn jpegs and other image formats into pdfs and rearrange the image and make the text clear.
Academic Integrity
Your Project must be your own work and you must read and follow UCL Academic Integrity guidance.
Academic Integrity means being honest in your academic work, and making sure that you formally recognise and reference the existing knowledge and ideas on which your work is based. If you do not acknowledge the work or ideas of others, you could be penalised for Academic Misconduct.
All plagiarism will be penalised. Any cases of suspected plagiarism will be challenged - those students will have to complete a task under supervised conditions and/or points will be deducted and could result in zero points for this piece of coursework and the matter referred to the Registrar. A variety of methods are used to detect plagiarism, including the use of the Turnitin® detection system.
You must NOT duplicate topics you have used for any other courses. You may refer to some of the research you have undertaken previously so long as the majority of the sources and bibliography for your Project are up-to-date and there is justification for referencing this older material.
You must NOT get help from friends, use translation services or copy sources verbatim. You may discuss your Project with a native speaker but you CANNOT show them any of your written work.
Using a computer spellchecker is acceptable as the correct option still needs to be selected. However using a computer to translate from another language into English is NOT acceptable:
- For your sources - if the source was originally in another language then you will get zero points for it;
- For your Writing element - which constitutes plagiarism.
Project description
Your Project should be related to aspects of your subject. We recommend that you phrase the subtitle of your Project as a question in order to stimulate argumentation and help keep the Project focused.
Amount to be written: 1500-2000 WORDS
Your Project MUST include:
- A bibliography of ALL relevant sources you have read and used (including FULL internet addresses);
- Copies of the THREE (3) main sources used. The relevant sections of these documents MUST be marked (either by highlighting or underlining).
Your word count should include the main text and any tables, diagrams and illustrations together with their captions, plus footnotes and endnotes, but not the table of contents, bibliography or appendices.
Quotations:
- Short quotes SHOULD be included in your word count.
- Extended quotations (of more than two lines) should be indented in the text and should NOT be included in the word count.
There should not be excessive quoting.
Marking criteria (specific)
For general information see the Marking criteria (general).
- Sources - 15 points;
- Content and argument - 30 points;
- Textual structure - 15 points;
- Academic conventions - 15 points;
- Cohesion and academic style - 25 points.
Additional information
CLIE EAP tutors will assist you with Project planning in class; this will help you focus and make sure you are on the right track.
The research you do for your Project will help you in your Oral Examination (English Language Skills for Academic Purposes only).