Product Description

In all A Level geography specifications students must undertake personal investigative work based on first-hand and secondary data. This text aims to help students tackle issues such as selecting an enquiry, gathering data, assessing methodologies and writing up a report.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #298223 in Books
• Published on: 2003-04-30
• Binding: Paperback
• 192 pages

University of Sunderland, Tyne and Wear
Comprehensive coverage of the key approaches in fieldwork...more comprehensive than the GA's A-Z of Fieldwork.

Synopsis
"Fieldwork Investigations: A Self Study Guide" provides AS and A2 geography students with all the information they need to carry out a successful personal investigation. It deals with all aspects of enquiry, from choice of title and carrying out primary and secondary research using appropriate methodologies, through to presentation, analysis and evaluation. The text covers all the major areas of physical, human and environmental geography, and particular help is given on relevant skills such as constructing a questionnaire, using statistics and making the most of ICT.

About the Author
Sue Warn is the Chief Examiner of the most popular Geography A level course (Edexcel B). She is Chair of Examiners for Geography at GCSE.
David Holmes is an experienced Fieldwork Practitioner and Lecturer. He is based at the Fieldwork Centre in Shrewsbury.