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Oh yeah. So the main requirement. So you guys will probably all know this already. Your p is due, the essay is due at the 29th of April at 2 p.m. If you've got a da plan, it's a week later. Um 5500 words max. So the uni ideally want you to write about 5000 words, you can go up to 5000, 500 anything above that, you get a 10% penalty and you don't want, you ideally want to be as close to 5000 as you can. You don't want to be sort of below 4900. Um You need a title page that just basically says your name, your essay title and your tutor and the word count, you need to have a, a and scientific abstract and they both have to be 200 words maximum, unlike in year one, but it was 300 words and you had a bit of leeway. This is 200 words of maximum, ideally sort of between the 100 and 60 to 100 and 70 mark and then figures and tables. You need to have at least one figure or table, it doesn't matter the, the more the better. But to pass if you don't have one, they can fail you for it. I've seen people fail for just not including a table which is crazy. Um, but it's a very simple thing to add and then there's these three, the, the lines f on your page margins on the front, just basic things. Um And if you don't do them correctly, you can do it on. I think just doing those three properly gets you about 10 20%. So why not? Um And I can walk you through how to do that on word properly as well, referencing, making sure you have references that actually link to the proper pages, that makes sense of what you're doing and they're in the right format and then a bibliography, which if you use a reference manager does it automatically for you and then numbered headings. Now, this isn't a proper requirement. You can have your headings in an order um of however you want, but having them numbered to the university likes to see that a bit more and it boosts you up into the sort of higher excellent categories. But those are the very basic requirements. If you have all of that, you, you'll be in a good sort of standing point. Um So moving on forward and sorry, I forgot to mention before. If anyone's got any questions, I'll try and keep my eye on the Zoom Chat. Um But just let me know or you can uh message these Chinese people to let me know hopefully. Um So moving on to the outline. So the very first thing I remember to anyone starting off their pet is get your title. So this is my title. This is an example. Um and either by yourself or what, you know that topic already or if you know nothing on that topic already, you can go into chat GBT or whatever A I you want to use and just put it in and ask it to make you a very basic outline of what you'd need to cover for an essay with 5000 words. Um, you're completely out that by university, university, sort of let you use A I to help you grammar, correct. Um, you know, help you plan things, it's just generating the content they don't like, but generally just get that. And so you can get a very good idea of what your essay will be about because some people, you'll get an essay title that, you know, loads about and you can plan it out nicely. But some people get quite unlucky. You get a title, um, that you've got no idea about. You might have done a bit of research and if your tutors hold you a bit, but generally do that and once you've got sort of a rough outline, then you can start going into your researching. Um, and so what you can do is this is a very basic outline, but you can sort of get it to do a word count, breakout. Um So if you tell, tell t that you've got a 5000 word essay and sort of give me a rough word count for each section. So, so you've got an even split and then once you've done that you can start Googling and researching, which you go on to the next slide a bit more about what to go into. Um And yeah, a lot of people when starting off with the pe you know, you've got your abstract, which I'd recommend doing at the end of your essay because it's a nice summary. So once you've done all the content, you'll know, but start off with a section that you're most confident on just so you can get past that initial starting off hurdle because you think, oh, I've got a month, I've got plenty of time. Then you've got two weeks, then you've got one week and you're sort of cramming. So if you start, if you just start a bit more, 203 100 words in a section that you know, a lot about makes that a little bit easier um to then start off and go ahead with your essay. Yeah, definitely, definitely start off with an outline. Some people like to do it after they've done the research, I say just start off, get a rough outline in place and then you can, it makes your research a bit more, uh, guided and then moving on. Um, oops, sorry, it's gonna, had two, um, researching. So, very, some people put, you're researching, you can just start off by Googling and you can get a few sites through that. But the four best sites that I found and what I, and a lot of other people in my year used were Google Scholar, which I'm hoping a lot of you already know about elicit this site right here. This site is very, very good. So they just released it when we started our pe and it's basically an uh an A I site that you put in a question or sort of a specific uh paper that you found and you wanna find similar papers to it and it will find you as many as you can and you can specify sort of, what side do you want it? If you want it from PUBBED, if you want it from like a science director or if you want it from a general Google search that help me find a lot of the content and it, to give you a little summary as well. So you can instantly see um what if that paper is relevant to you? These sites do the same thing um elicits um Some of them are free, some of them have paid trials and things used to be free for. They've got a bit of a limit. Um But yeah, definitely, definitely recommend so start off by just putting a title in and getting as many papers from there. And then once you've got the papers from there, then you can sort of, if you go back to the outline that we had, you can sort of go in and phrase this a bit, a bit of a longer statement, put that in and then you get so many papers and from there, you can even get sort of website articles, videos and things and then you can click them together to see what works for you. It definitely definitely saves you a lot of time rather than going through manually and sort of reading through each paper. Um And then a lot of people have asked in terms of getting PUBMED article because sometimes you can go to a pubmed and it will just say that abstract and the authors, they won't have the full article and PUBMED tries to get you to pay for it. So this is a site that university recommend um library key dot ale. You just, if you go to that link, I have it hyperlink in the slides. Um you can pop in. So each poba article will have a little ID. If you just pop in that ID, it'll then take you to a page that says you need to sign in. If you just choose University of Manchester sign in it, then gives you the full link. So you can either download the P PDF or go to Poba directly and then you get access to the full article as well if you use Mende or ZO, which if you don't know what they are, don't worry, we'll go through those right at the end of the reference managers, they can also sort of help you with that and get you the full P DFS. But hopefully that gives you a bit more of an insight into the, the researching, researching part of it, just collect as many as you can. It doesn't matter if you're gonna use them in the end initially, just get a bunch of papers together, get little summaries, you can even put the papers in the chat to get a summary and then work up from there, um Whichever one works best for you and then moving on. So I've put the abstract first. I've, I said you should write this last, but just sort of going through it. Um I've got sort of different slides on the, the mark schemes um that the university have and we can go through them bit by bit just to show you a lot of people when it comes to pep, they get very stressed and think it's um um they, they're gonna feel it, it's very, very hard to feel pep and not many people in my year did. And you can, when we go through the mark schemes, you're able to see um what why that is? So with the abstracts, they're worth 10 percent of your marks. Again, 200 words, the maximum you have your le and your scientific. Um So there's only lay and scientific abstracts for your pet projects last year. Basically just the exact same thing. Just need to do a, a short summary. So this this structure on the here, I'm hoping you can see my mouse is the university's um sort of recommended structure. And I recommend sticking to that. It's very simple, quick introduction, main aim, major findings and the conclusion um scientific abstract. I always find it a lot easier to write because you can sort of just write, you can go all out. But with the lay abstract, um university, I've become quite a lot more stricter to it um with it uh for me personally and a lot of a lot of people last year abstract was one of the only thing II lost marks on with my pet. So with the lay abstract, I wrote Patient Outcomes and Dataset and that was classed as a scientific term. So what the university recommended and what I personally recommended as well, if you, if you find some like scientific or medical, if you go to the NHS website and you can use the sort of words that they use there, that jargon there, or if you're writing about sort of a news topic or something like that, you can go on the BBC website and whatever language they use there, try and replicate that you can even then sort of, um, ask chat GPT any sort of A, I look, I need to write, you, write, you write something up, give it to Chat GPT and say, can you help me adjust this, um, or give me some ideas on sort of how to make this more layman terms and that should hopefully, er, be all right for you. But yeah, in terms of the, the mark scheme for it, as soon as you go above 200 words, you feel for the abstract part. So that's 10% down the drain. Um, but the main thing you need to get is just that they, they actually summarize what you're saying and this clear explanation. Um, and that'll put you up into the, the high tech categories, the abstract shouldn't be, hopefully, shouldn't be too hard and then moving on to the content. So the, the main bulk of your essay, uh starting off with your content, it depends, it depends on. I've heard a lot of people have got some nice tutors. Some of you haven't got some nice tutors. But if you have got a tutor that you, you know, they've set up a few meetings for you, ask them for as many papers as you can. But with the content, a lot of the tutors, a lot of the times either they've written papers on that topic themselves or they've had students for the past 56 years who have written topics and the same thing or they've got a bunch of, they usually have sort of a nice little bank of article that they can pass on to you. So, ask your tutor straight away if they don't offer it to you, usually they'll offer it to you. Do you have any set of essays that I can refer to? And then you can have a read through that? And that gives you a very good guide on sort of what to tailor the content of your essay around. Content is worth the most in the p it's worth 30 percent. Each of the sections worth about 20 10%. But content is the most. And the main thing to do with the content is critical analysis. What this is what the university loves you to do. So, critical analysis, all it means is you've read an article and instead of copying and pasting sort of what they've written exactly. Adding a bit of your own opinion to it or combining two things, you saw an article on this page and they had sort of similar data, um putting the two your essay and then comparing them um and with writing the content itself, um again, you'll have heard this and it's a lot easier said than done, but try being consistent sort of, even if it's sort of 50 to 100 words a day or 100 and 50 to 200 words a day, you guys still have a month. So even if you're starting now, 100 and 50 to 200 words a day, you can easily tackle through it and eventually you'll get into it. Sometimes you'll want to write a bit more. So there's a bit less. It just sort of, um, helps you keep it consistent because planing pep in the last few days is too.