Its been a while since I added to this blog. Students at the school I teach use Lincoln for their coursework. Here are some notes relevant to them, however in context they may be useful to others - where possible apply it to the place you studied.
1) Include in your work maps showing where Lincoln is in the UK and Lincolnshire.
2) Have a map showing the different areas where you did the work.
3) Graph/chart all the information that you have collected - for example results from your questionnaires and car tax disc survey.
4) Answer all your hypotheses - look at all the information you have collected, describe what it shows and analyse reasons for the results you have got. Then make it clear - have you proved or disproved your hypotheses and reasons for this.
5) Answer the key question! Refer to the different information that you have gotten from your hypotheses, and make it clear what you think attracts people to Lincoln and why they are attracted to this city. You may wish to consider that different attractions have different effects on this.
6) Don't forget to give everything a title! Label all graphs, photographs and charts where possible and make sure that you use them in your work - there is no point sticking in a graph just for the sake of it.
7) Remember to organise your study at the end - page numbers, bibliography where you credit all the websites you have used and books etc. For websites, mention what date you looked at them - then if the website changes you are covered. CAUTION - do not state that you got all your images from GOOGLE - search engines such as Google only bring up images from other websites, these are the sites that you need to credit.
8) If you are struggling to work out how far away places are from Lincoln, online route finders can be handy (although these do have some limitations.) For example there is a reasonable route planner at the aa's website
