Initial Plan of EPQ

Where I will do a lot of the work

What are your deliverables for this plan of action?
-Create a freemind document coming up with possible ideas for my project/artefact
-narrow my project down to three ideas for a topic title

Why do you plan on doing this/ what are your aims?
-This will enable me to get much closer to deciding what my project will be. This get me one step closer to starting researching my project.

Are there any problems you anticipate facing? If so, what will you do to overcome this?
I may find that it is difficult to come up with any ideas. In order to alleviate this I will first consider what my hobbies/interests at school are and what I want my career/further education to be in order to reach a logical conclusion of what I may be willing to do and what would be helpful for me.

What are the deliverables for this deadline?
-Decide if I am doing an artefact or dissertation
-Decide my initial topic title. I will do this by narrowing down from 3 top ideas which I made previously to this

What are your deliverables for this plan of action?
Create a document which outlines what I hope to achieve with this project.
This will include:
-the skills/attributes I want to learn/develop
-how I want it to help me with my future career
-how I want it to help me with my further education after KEGS

Why do you plan on doing this/ what are your aims?

Are there any problems you anticipate facing? If so, what will you do to overcome this?
I may find that my project is not meeting these aims. If this is not the case then I can review my topic title/format. This is why I have put this aims/objectives section after the formulating of ideas for my project rather than before.

(This plan that I am doing right now)

What are your deliverables for this plan of action?
A detalied plan on preceden outlining what I expect to have to do, with deadlines, in order to realise my project.
This will be for each stage of the project: planning, researching, writing, evaluating.

Why do you plan on doing this/ what are your aims?
This will give me a more clear understanding of what I need to do in order for my project to be successful. It will also allow me to keep to the deadlines which I have been set and am setting myself for the completion of different stages of my EPQ.

Are there any problems you anticipate facing? If so, what will you do to overcome this?
There is some uncertainty surrounding my EPQ. I may not know whether I will be incredibly busy at certain times and there may be things which I will need to do which I have missed. This is inevitable with any early plan and is a reason to review the plan later, in order to adjust with the situation which I will do.

Using google search, talking to a librarian if necessary

What are your deliverables for this plan of action?
Create a table of many sources, evaluating their potential utility to me.

Why do you plan on doing this/ what are your aims?
This will allow me to know what I will be reading and taking notes on for my dissertation.

Are there any problems you anticipate facing? If so, what will you do to overcome this?
I may have problems finding enough sources. In order to counteract this I can do many things such as looking at the references of a book that I know will be helpful to me in order to find more similar texts that are likely to be relevant to my topic.

What are your deliverables for this plan of action?
Create a list of titles which I intend to use

Why do you plan on doing this/ what are your aims?
In doing this I will eliminate the potential sources which I came up with which I evaluated and found to be not helpful to my dissertaiton research. As a result I will avoid wasting my time with irrelevant sources and know which sources I will need to read/take notes from in the time that I have allotted.

Are there any problems you anticipate facing? If so, what will you do to overcome this?
I may not know whether sources will be helpful to me or not before actually looking at them. To overcome this I will have to go to a library so that I can look at the books in order to decide whether they will be useful, or I can look online at reviews of the books which say whether the books is useful/what it covers. Furthermore, Amazon has a "look inside" function which will allow me to look at the contents and introductions of books and decide whether I will find the source useful.