• Homework: For Thursday

• Write the introduction and finish the

first two paragraphs of the research
section of your report.
• Remember to refer to cite your
sources (you will learn how to do this
using Harvard Referencing tomorrow)
and add images of the artworks that
you discuss.
 The
Report:

• Introduction
• Research
• Skill Development
• Project Evaluation
• Bibliography
Introduction: (200 words min)

• What was the background to your project idea and why did it interest you?
• What was the intended purpose of your artefact? Why is your output relevant? Who
was it targeted at end user/audience/consumer?
• Which artist movement are you contributing to?
• What was the intended purpose of your artefact? To entertain? To educate or to inspire?
• What changes or revisions did you initially make to your topic title at the start and why?
• What was your proposed course of action to complete the project?
Research: (500 words min)
• What did you find out from your secondary research material? E.g. artists research from books
and the internet, journals, studies of similar artefacts.
• What were the most useful quotes – cite these using the Harvard referencing system. Explain how
you analyzed them critically to establish whether the author or publication was reliable or biased.
• What did you discover via your primary research questionnaires, interviews with mentors or
peers, feedback on artefact through the gallery. Outline the questions that you asked that proved
the most useful.
• Outline what you would conclude your target audience to be, has this changed from the initial
intention? Is it a specialist product or accessible to a general audience?
• Use appropriate photography vocabulary to evidence learning and ensure a high grade.
Skill Development: (500 words min)

• Outline any skills you have acquired through the project, what resources did you use to
learn learn these?
• How did you learn to develop your work to a professional standard?
• Skills can be about project and time management not just practical photographic skills.
• Can you screen grab any work or use photographs to evidence the learning process and
show how you made your artefact?
• What did you learn through making a prototype?
• Ensure that you include relevant terminology from the subject to ensure a high grade.
Evaluation: (500 words min)
• Describe the process of making from start to finish.
• Don’t be frightened to talk about problems you had, changes of direction
• How did you overcome or work around any issues that you faced?
• How did you find undertaking the qualification with an external agency?
• Describe the challenges and the successes along the way.
• Review the strengths and weakness of your artefact, in comparison to a similar professional
artefact.
• Conclude by suggesting how you would change, review, or give advice to anyone in a similar
situation, embarking on a similar project
• Ensure that you include relevant terminology from the subject to ensure a high grade.
Bibliography:
• At least 10 sources, a mix of
magazines, books, videos,
articles, journals
• All sources should be referenced
using the Harvard system
Here are some rules about the style of
writing you should use when writing your
EPQ.

The EPQ is an academic piece of writing, so

you need to write in a certain way.

It is important that your report comes from

an academic perspective, your decision
must be objective and unbiased and based
on reliable research material.
Avoid using sentences like ‘ I wanted to use the studio lighting because I liked the …’

Instead, you might say ‘after seeing how effectively Petra Colins used delicate lighting
techniques to photograph her portraits of young women (in her book…), I decided to
research methods of using natural lighting, because I felt this would appeal to my target
audience’
Avoid: ‘I decided to use a digital printer to print my book because it looks more
professional

Instead, you might say ‘ having printed two prototype books I arranged for my target
audience to give me some feedback on whether the various paper types appealed to them
and whether my ideas where being clearly expressed in that format. The result of this led
me to pick…’
DO NOT use figures of speech or colloquialisms e.g., ‘a fun fact’

DO NOT Use emotive adjectives

Vivien Sassen created this beautiful series of work on…

By using the word ‘beautiful’, you are inadvertently showing bias. Refrain from using
adjectives altogether, as these indirectly convey opinion. Talk about why the body of
work is relevant to your ideas and how it has inspired you to develop your project.
This also applies where you are investigating a topic or issue through your artefact

‘Ian Brady committed these horrendous crimes with his accomplice Myra Hindley’

By using the word ‘horrendous’, you are inadvertently showing bias. Refrain from using
adjectives altogether, as these indirectly convey opinion.

Remember you must ensure all your facts come from reliable sources.
DO NOT INCLUDE YOUR OWN OPINION
An academic piece of writing never includes the author’s
opinion. If the author has an opinion, they argues their case
by presenting evidence to convince the reader that theirs is
the strongest argument – and never uses the first-person
pronoun when doing so.
Do not use contractions

Do not = correct
Don’t = incorrect
Imitate the language and style of writing from your academic sources:
Do not use more words than necessary.

Do not use flowery descriptive language or unnecessary words to appear ‘clever’.

Be concise and use simple language to directly convey what you mean.
How to critically analyse sources for your report?

Let’s start by writing about the work of an artist that has really inspired your project.

• Is the photo part of a series, where did you find it? How can you tell whether the article
or publication is accurate?
• Who is the author or publisher? Ideally finding images in an exhibition catalogue or
published photobook would be best, rather than online unless it is from the artists own
website.
• How does the subject matter (what you can see in the image) link to your topic or ideas?
• Are there any compositional lines, shapes or colours in the image that grab your
attention, or draw your eye to a central focus that is relevant to your ideas?
• How is the artist expressing an idea, technique or a style that has helped develop your
own ideas for your project?
• Can you find a relevant quote to incorporate (from the artist or from an academic source
about the artist) that confirms that their ideas link to yours? ( again, state how you know
that the source is reliable)
• What did you learn from researching this artist? How did their work inspire ideas for
your own photography or artefact? Make a direct link.

You can go on to talk about a photobook or an exhibition that you saw in the same way,
talk about the work as a series and how the content and layout or use of materials also
inspired your ideas.
You can also talk about the advice from your mentor as a reliable source.
How to critically analyse sources for your report? Articles and books

If your EPQ title is exploring a specific issue or a movement then

name a reliable source that really informed your argument or
understanding of this.
Who is the author or publisher? How do you know that they
information that has been provided in the book or article is accurate
and relevant?
What information or facts did it provide to help you gain a deeper
understanding of the issue, the technique or the movement that you
are exploring?
How did this inform or inspire the making of your artefact?
Find a relevant quote to incorporate
Go back to your resource criticism table, this will help you.
 Homework: Complete your introduction and the first two paragraphs of your report based on your
research analysis and findings and how that informed your decisions. Due on Thursday.

Tomorrow we have a curator and an artist involved in a collective called Revolv, coming in to talk to
you guys. Please plan some questions for them, that you can document as part of your research.
Work on your prototype