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Hello,
I have several questions I was hoping someone would have the answer to:
1) I have gained permission to use some internal documents in my OBU RAP project and was assuming these should be included as appendices – is this correct, or should they simply be referenced? I assume appendices because they will be unavailable elsewhere but do I then just refer to the appendix in the text rather than citing a reference?
2) What is involved with the excel appendix which is needed to demonstrate IT knowledge? I am advanced in excel, but am not carrying out a project based on a financial topic – I will use some ratios but this will only be profit margin, revenue and cost growth for a three year period. would this be sufficient?
3) Do I upload all appendices separately, such as internal documents, or if they are word based should I include them in the main report (even if they are internal documents such as a letter in word?)
Thank you in advance for any help you can offer.
Hi Ben welcome to our Forum
1. Upload the internal documents as appendices. (You may also need to include an authorisation letter -see p 48- 53 of the Info Pack). Also reference throughout of course.
2. Just basic formulae and possibly graphs are required so upload as an Excel file
3. Where documents are related they can be loaded as one file. A note from my marker friend says 1. Don’t load anything in the report after the Conclusions/ recommendations (otherwise it messes up the word count and means the marker has to highlight the rest to discover the true word count) and 2. Try to organise the appendices so that you don’t have more than 4 or 5 (it slows down the marker as each one has to be separately downloaded and means they have to have lots of documents open).
There will always be a minimum of 5 files but a dozen separate appendices drives her nuts – and making a marker frustrated is therefore NOT advised!! 😀
Hello Trephena,
Thank you for your reply.
1) I have obtained a letter of approval for the use of these documents and will include it as an appendix with them.
2) Can I clarify please – by basic formulae, do you mean division/multiplication etc will be ok (and a sum function) or do you actually need to use excel functions such as vlookup/average etc for example?
3) I do have a dozen + appendices currently. Could you advise on how these can be uploaded together? There are several PDF’s, word docs etc but they are clearly individual appendices. Should I group them – for instance, put 3 word appendices into one word document and just start each one on a new page, with a clear header giving the name and appendix number?
Thank you again for your assistance, it is much appreciated.
1. Good
2. No you don’t have to use functions but no probs if you do. Simple formulae will suffice.
3. Ask yourself are all of these really, really necessary? A dozen individual appendices seems a bit over the top. Group company pdf documents together perhaps setting out a list of them at the beginning? Also I have found that you can paste lots of info into an Excel workbook labelling each tab – can you do this for related documents? Where you load different files give them short clear titles (not just Appendix 1, 2, 3 etc) to distinguish them.I suggest you stop and think – how can I help the marker? ( or consider – is this a good way of doings to make life easier for all concerned?). Don’t forget to number your pages -another marker grouse is that when a report fails and they try to give feedback if the pages are unnumbered they can’t refer the student back to the exact page!
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