Meeting with Mr Moore on the 13th of February

During Monday's meeting Mr Moore gave me my grades for the Preliminary and I was quite happy with them. I received an overall 18 out of 24, which I will definitely be working to improve. One fault with my project was that I did not speak about how I used my research and sources to create my final product. I remedied this today and we also spoke about cutting down the word count of my project to around 3500-3600. Mr Moore thought that I should cut words from the Goal and the Selection of Sources, so during my free period today I looked through those sections to see what I could remove. While looking through I realised that I disagreed with him because I found all of the information in those sections relevant. I then looked over the whole report and found that I was being repetitive in the Achieving the Goal section and in the Reflection on Learning. 


Due to this, I decided to cut from these sections. I know that this is going against his advice, but I really think that cutting from the later sections where I found repetitions will make my report better. In any case, I have cut out a lot of words and my new word count is 3575 words, which is very close to the limit of 3500. I will see if I can cut more, but I think that there is a little bit of leeway. 


Mr Moore also advised me to  mention Community and Service in my Reflection on Learning, and I followed his advice. I feel that it improved my report as it meant that there was a link between the beginning and the end. He also told me that I needed to improve my bibliography format, which I spent time doing yesterday on EasyBib. 


Overall, I think that this new round of editing has greatly improved my report and I am looking forward to receiving more constructive criticisms from Mr Moore after the break.


During the break I will be getting more people to read through my report and give suggestions. I will also be preparing the materials for the Final Exhibition and I will be printing out entries from this blog to represent my process journal.

Finished with Report!!!

I have finished my report three days ahead of schedule and I sent it to Mr Moore. Now we have three weeks for editing and putting the final touches on my project.

Feed-back from Preliminary

The teachers who graded me in the preliminary advised me to footnote my sources and talk about the research I did in order to get better grades in Criteria C and D. They also thought that I should mention my AoI, Community and Service, in the Reflection on Learning section.


This feedback was incredibly helpful and I followed their advice and changed my report. They praised the fact that my project was pretty much finished and found it interesting that my project could have a legacy.


I will be writing more about their feedback after my full meeting with Mr Moore to discuss improvements to my project.


All in all, I hope to finish the report by Monday and then spend time checking over it with Mr Moore. I want to get as many people as possible to proofread it, probably during the break.

Preparing for the Preliminary

Tomorrow is the Preliminary Assessment of the Personal Project and I will be taking;

- My nearly completed report, all I have left to finish is the final paragraphs of the Reflection on Learning Section.
- All of the tests I created, both blank and with the students' answers.
- 10 entries from this blog, which I chose last week with Mr Moore.

Once the Preliminary is over, I simply have to format my report and write the last few paragraphs. Mr Moore and I will then begin editing and tweaking it to make it perfect. My personal deadline for the completed report is Monday the 13th of February.