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The following exemplars are provided to give you some idea of the type of writing and the depth of enquiry needed to achieve the grades. I would comment on these scripts that, regardless of the final grade, they could all be criticised. In the marking exercise, all of us noted that we would have awarded the 1st class assignments here a 2:1. All of the assignments here are too bulky, more selective judgement needs to be exercised over what to appendicize, more critical use of sources would have been nice to see, data needs to be better contextualised and there needs to be less descriptive writing of what went on in lessons.

Previous chemistry assignments.



Previous physics assignments.

If you're going to refer to learning styles in your assignment, may I refer you to this review of learning styles - full of useful references itself. If you refer to VAK classifications in your essay prepare yourself to be criticised. There's a growing body of opinion to suggest that there are deep flaws in that school of thought, some of which are outlined in the report above. If you're going to talk multiple intelligences, go back to Howard Gardner's work