Edexcel Unit 4 - Tectonics (and structuring!)

I put numbers in brackets after using a source, then did a bibliography at the end with the corresponding numbers stating the sources.

okay..

do you think it would be okay to do a methodology
then when quoting something from a source putting in brackets (Source: www.bbcnews.com)
so they are linked together?

You could yeah. I did the paper in January and got an A. I guess either way is fine, although my teacher told us to put a bibliography at the end with all the sources, like an academic article would.

oh wow! well done!
problem is i have soooo many sources! how many did you use, did you source absolutely everything?

I had about 15 sources I think. When you look at Wikipedia articles like http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spoon, they have their sources in superscript; I did it like:

Preserved examples of various forms of spoons used by the ancient Egyptians include those composed of ivory, flint, slate and wood; many of them carved with religious symbols.^[1] Then carried out with whatever I was talking about.

I did my bibliography like this, which is also on that Wikipedia page:

Sources

4. Lindsay, James E. (2005). Daily Life in the Medieval Islamic World. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 128. ISBN 0-313-32270-8
5. South China Seas Culture & Cuisine
6. UKTV Food: Recipes: Southeast Asian cuisine

is it okay to compare the 2009 sumatra with the kashmir 2005 earhquake e.g for location, as kashir was in the mountains and sumatra is flatter?

I think that would be fine, as long as you say how the location influenced the effectiveness of responses

Panic mode too, retaking from January. In general, is it best to write an essay before hand and try to learn it? Has anyone else done that as I'm stuck for ideas on how to revise. Thanks

I have. I've made the report reasonably generalised so that I can adapt it for the exam question. I think this is probably a good way to revise if you're like me and struggle with timings - I waffle a lot and have never finished a Geography exam in my life, so think this is a good way to revise as it adds a bit of structure and will hopefully prevent me from waffling in the exam as I'm limited to what I wrote in my prep report.

Hope this helps. Good luck with the exam!

Thanks, starting to write an introduction now, I'm predicting the question to be 'How do different groups of people influence the effectiveness of response' or something like 'Evaluate the effectiveness of responses used by different people'

Just wondering for the first predicted question would it be best to structure my report in terms of different groups and the second one structure it by factors of response? Any thoughts?

I put numbers in brackets after using a source, then did a bibliography at the end with the corresponding numbers stating the sources.

Yeah me too. Going to do that thingie in the air

"...tectonics kill people ^[1], people don't like that..."

Something like that. You know, at the end, once i've made the bibliography and panicking because I have a second or so left... just randomly dot some numbers around to make it look like i've referenced throughout.

Yeah me too. Going to do that thingie in the air

"...tectonics kill people ^[1], people don't like that..."

Something like that. You know, at the end, once i've made the bibliography and panicking because I have a second or so left... just randomly dot some numbers around to make it look like i've referenced throughout.