This document provides feedback and suggestions for improving assignments. It addresses common errors like improper referencing, lack of academic sources, grammatical issues, and more. Students are encouraged to carefully check referencing, use peer-reviewed sources, address the learning objectives, and engage in higher-order thinking by considering different perspectives beyond just their first thoughts. Reflection on past assignments and applying feedback can strengthen future work.

1. Feedback / Feed-Forward
Looking Backwards and Looking
Forwards

2. Feedforward (back) for (from) 1st
Assignment
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3. Some Common Errors
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4. “This is a quote” (Hopkins, 2017:4)
Not using the standard UoH rubric
(Hopkins, 2017) not Hopkins
(2017)
Use of full name Lev Vygotsky
rather than Vygotsky (convention)
Please check the referencing
guide on the Support Site and
CANVAS
‘Drop in’ references in body of
assignment
Alphabetical order in references
Web referencing
Peer reviewed sources
International sources
Rubric re: formatting including
the use of citation not footnotes

5. “Many children
learn via
retrieval
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“X’s’ model is
better than other
models as it
provides for action
planning to enable
development.”
“A common
problem in
schools is lack of
subject
knowledge”

6. Use Journal articles especially
important for the “subjectness” of the
assignments
Be aware of the academic quality of
sources [e.g. Cowley / Bennett]
Web Sources: These can be fine - or
awful need to be carefully checked
and access checked prior to
submission.
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7. “It’s not surprising that I’m not
making progress when he’s having
trouble learningt”
“Certainly times have changed since
…”
“This is using a so called theory of
development”
Not necessary to use the phrase
“research shows” or “research
indicates” or there are many
theorists.
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8. Noun / Pronoun agreement
Child has a EHCP
There were a group of
children
To many children where
asked to speak
Use of apostrophe’s (!)
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9. 1. Avoid alliteration. Always.
2. Prepositions are not words to end sentences with.
3. Avoid clichés like the plague – they’re old hat.
4. Comparisons are as bad as clichés.
5. Be more or less specific
6. Writers should never generalise
7. Seven. Be consistent
8. Don’t be redundant; don’t use more words than necessary; it’s highly superfluous
9. Who needs rhetorical questions?
10. Exaggeration is a billion times worse than understatement.
11. Never write one word sentences. Period.
12. Think long and hard before writing anything that could be misconstrued as innuendo.
13. Never put things into parentheses (under any circumstances).
14. Above all else be terse – don’t go on and on, no one likes overlong sentences where
you have to keep reading and reading and not get anywhere; make sure your reader
understands what you are trying to convey in as few words as possible.

10. Reference to the
Teachers’
Standards
Focus on the
Learning Objectives
Use of theory
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12. “She also possesses Second Thoughts,
which are defined as 'the thoughts you think
about the way you think'. Whilst other
witches are said to have this trait as well,
Tiffany also recognizes some of her
thoughts as Third Thoughts (the thoughts
you think about the way you think about the
way you think), and Fourth Thoughts (the
thoughts you think about the way you think
about the way you think about the way you
think). All these thoughts sometimes cause
Tiffany to walk into door frames”
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13. “I watched the class teacher silence the
class and on reflection thought that this was
the way I should have behaved and
resolved to do it this way next time”
First thoughts?
Second thoughts?
Third Thoughts?
Where does the research / literature
appear in this hierarchy?
Can you think of an example in your own writing
when you stopped at first thoughts?
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14. “The class I am placed in is
generally well-behaved?”
First thoughts?
Second thoughts?
Third Thoughts?
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On your table make a first / second and maybe
third thoughts comment on this.

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23. Feedback / Feed-Forward
Looking Backwards and Looking
Forwards