Overview

There are two assignments that are summatively assessed (count towards your overall mark).

The practicals for the module are the basis for Assignment 1.

After practical six you should have enough knowledge to think about the Assignment 2.

There are six suggested Assignment 2 projects, but also freedom for you to suggest your own project. If you are going to devise your own project, then please liaise with your tutor.

Details

Assignment details	Due date	% of final mark	Marking Criteria
Online portfolio (1,500 words equivalent)	Thursday 3rd November 2022, 2pm	30	Word File
Independent project (2,500 words equivalent)	Thursday 15th December 2022, 2pm	70	Word File

Other important info

Please note that for elements give a word limit, there is no + 10% leeway for word length. Penalties for going over length are outlined in the School’s Code of Practice on Assessment (CoPA).

The VLE time stamp (which will be added to your submission when you upload the electronic version of your proposal) is definitive in terms of monitoring late submissions. Please note that the assessment upload will *not* email you confirmation, so please check you've uploaded ok.

Please add a Marking Consideration 'e-sticker' if necessary when uploading your work. A Marking Consideration "e-sticker" is sent by the School Taught Student Office to all students who are known to have a Specific Learning Difficulty (e.g. dyslexia), or another disability which affects their literacy. These students qualify for marking consideration, and this 'stamp' will identify their work. Disability Services determine eligibility. If you are eligible for Marking Consideration and have not been issued with a stamp, please contact your Taught Student Office as soon as possible.

It is your responsibility to make sure you are aware of the due date for each piece of work. For work submitted electronically, the time of the submission is logged automatically and compared to the deadline. A late penalty of 5 marks (5 percent of marks available) per 24h period or part thereof after the deadline, begin to accrue from 1 second after the deadline. If your assessed work is over 14 days late, you will receive a mark of zero.

Assessment feedback return date: We will normally return an assessment within 15 working days as stated in the Code of Practice on Assessment. We will endeavour to avoid delays but will inform you if any should arise.

Re-sit Requirements: If you fail the module, you can register to re-sit the module at the next available opportunity.

You are expected to use the University's version of the Harvard referencing style for your assignments for this module. Guidance on how to include citations within your text and how to reference different types of material using Harvard is provided here.

The above requirement is to ensure consistency across the University. However, for the taught postgraduate MSc degrees in geography, with regard to citations and referencing where there are more than two authors, please use the format (Author, et al., year) when citing a source within your main text. In the reference list, please write out all author surnames and their initials (rather than just the first author, et al. as in the guidance noted above). This is the format of Harvard which is used in journals relevant to our topic areas.

Skills@Library, Royal Literary Fund Fellow and Statistics help: Skills@Library provides academic skills teaching and e-learning support so that students and researchers can effectively find, use, apply and present the information they need. The Royal Literary Fund Fellow provides support for essay and other forms of writing. You are welcome to seek their advice; their details can be found on this webpage. Our numeracy tutor, Rachel Homer, provides help on stats and maths. You can find her contact details on this webpage.