Courseworkguide Grassington

Grassington Coursework Dot to dot guide of how to do your coursework

Introduction
Visit Grassington by clicking on the link below to remind you of your trip.
For photos, maps and other information K drive:Geography/

Introduction
Title: What impact has tourism had on Grassington?
Aim: An investigation into the impact of tourism on Grassington, a honeypot site in the Yorkshire Dales.
Write out the title and aim, then explain the terms impact and honeypot.

Objectives
Key questions
1. Do Shops and services cater for tourists rather than residents ?
2. Is transport in Grassington threatening the qualities that attract people to the town.
3. How has tourism been managed?
4. Are the aims of the NP being met?

Objectives
Write out the objectives.
For each objective explain what it means and how it will help you do your enquiry.

Location
Where is Grassington.
Include a map.
Why was Grassington chosen for your enquiry?

Method
Describe the data you are going to collect
Take each key question in turn and describe the data you need and how you will collect it.
State if you are using secondary data rather than the collecting it yourself.
Clearly describe how you collected the data.
Justify the way in which you gathered the data e.g. why were the sites chosen for the traffic count.

Data collection
Show the data you have collected in the form of tables, original sketches and annotated maps.
Collate all the questionnaire results and present them in a table.

Problems
List any problems you encountered on the day when collecting the data.
How did you overcome these.

Data presentation
Select data to be presented
Use appropriate presentation techniques
Field sketches labelled; photographs labelled: Bar graphs; flow line graph; pie Chart; Line graph; proportional bar; isoline graph; overlay diagrams
Use your imagination
Demonstrate your skills neatly. You must use some ICT

Analysis & Conclusion
Describe what the data shows
On each graph/sketch etc where you have show the results of your field work.
State what it shows you, even label the graph etc
Each graph/diagram must be fully labelled or you lose marks.

Links
Make links between data.
A link means that one piece of data that you collected is connected to something else e.g. number of visitors could be connected to the number of cars arriving in Grassington.

Analysis
Take each Key question – what does the data show?
Does it answer the question?
If so say why.
If not say why.
Does this relate to any theory?

Conclusion
Look at the aim of the project – have you successfully completed the aim
How have you done this?
Prove in a couple of paragraphs that you have done this.

Evaluation
Did your study have any limitations.
How could you have improved your study?
Could it have been done better? Explain your answers.

Planning and organisation
Make sure you have done the following things .
The project is in order.
It is easy to read
All sketches graphs etc have titles and labels
ICT is part of the project ( include diagrams as part of the text
You have checked your spellings, punctuation and grammar
You have numbered the pages
You have a contents page
You have a bibliography

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