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Organising your sources and structuring your essay

In this video, the team illustrates an approach to structuring & writing up your research report so that you end up with a coherent piece of work

Once you have gathered all the sources you need for your research, it might seem like you have a jumbled mess of books, journals, websites, newspapers, all different types of resources that you just don’t know what to do with or how they fit together.

Some might contradict each other, even though they make the same point. It’s all about working out where exactly to place them.


In this animation with voiceover, the team illustrates an approach to structuring and writing up your report so that you end up with a coherent piece of work.

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