Part 2 Overload!?

Part 2 Overload? Most definitely! The most important part of the RAP is Part 3 Analysis and Evaluation as this will mostly dictate if you pass or fail and what grade you will get. That being the case you need 5,000 words to do it justice. The most important bit in Part 2 is discussion of the limitations. So along with the other bits in Part 2 you should be able to wrap Part 2 up in no more than 1,800 words max

Hi Gillian, I have completed my RAP for topic 17 and is composed as the following - Part 1 - 960 Part 2 - 2237 Part 3 - 4303 Total words - 7500 Are you suggesting that i will fail as i haven't done 5000 words for part 3? I have checked the oxford brookes info pack and it suggests that a report can have below - Part 1 - 1000 Part 2 - 2000 Part 3 - 4500 Total words - 7500 However this is only an advisory and it also states that a RAP can be 7000 - 7500 words long and so i figured that i could have part 3 as a minimum of 4000 words in which case i'm 303 words clear. Please can you correct me if i'm wrong? Thanks

No I am not suggesting that you will fail but what I am saying is that for a good quality report you are best off reserving 5,000 words for Part 3 I am well aware of the suggested apportionment of words in the Info Pack but markers are only interested in the overall word count and using 1,000 words in Part 1 is simply a waste of words. As a former marker I know that few markers bother reading Part 1 in detail and they don't actually care why you chose topic. The only thing they tend to focus on in Part 1 are the report objectives and research questions. By contrast you need to do a good analysis and evaluation to pass -so why waste words 1,000 words on a section that counts for virtually nothing when those words could be put to much better use in Part 3??? By the way my students struggle even with 5,000 for part 3 (and most of their Part 3s are 5,000 +)!!

Thanks for that - fair point. I think the info pack should reflect what the marker considers when marking the report which would give students a fairer chance at passing. If the info pack would of gave this information I would of allocated the desired amount of words you have suggested without wasting too much time on part 1 and 2.