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Assignment Book
Introduction
Welcome to the assignment book for the 2011 presentation of
T191 Personal and career development in engineering.
The first thing many OU students look at when they receive their
study materials is the assignment book. So if thats what youre
doing now, youre not alone. The links to the different sections are
listed under Contents on the left, so you can click through to
them. However, dont spend too much time on this at this stage
the designed gateway to the module is the Prologue in the Study
Book, which then leads you to the T191 Guide. By all means get
some idea of whats expected of you in the assignments, but
theyll probably make more sense to you when youre more
familiar with the study materials.
The assessment cut-off dates are shown in the box below.
Tutor-marked assignment TMA T191 01: cut-off date
24 November 2011
Tutor-marked assignment TMA T191 02: cut-off date
9 February 2012
End-of-module assessment: cut-off date 18 May 2012
Before you come to tackle the assignments, you should look at the
set of guidelines, hints and reminders under General information.
These are intended to help you to complete and submit your
assignments successfully.
General information
Completing your assignments
There are two tutor-marked assignments (TMAs) plus the end-ofmodule assessment (EMA). Both the TMAs are written pieces of
work that you complete and submit electronically. Each should
consist of a narrative account together with Evidence to
illustrate and support your account.
Evidence
You may well wish to supply or refer to evidence to accompany
your TMAs and EMA. In general, any evidence you cite in your
assignments should be there to substantiate statements you
make in your narrative, in such a way that these are either
verified or verifiable. Examples of verification might be copies
of examination certificates or signed attestations by your line
manager of assertions youve made about your work. Verifiable
evidence is where the information you give is sufficient to
identify a verification source. Dates are usually important here,
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as the source might be an academic institution or examining

body, or the membership secretary of a society or institution,
or a piece of literature (for example, a reference to an article in
a scholarly journal should include the authors name, the title
of the journal, the volume number, the page range and the
year of publication). With eTMAs, if you dont have access to a
scanner, it is acceptable to treat an item of paper evidence as a
reference that you cite in your text and list at the back, but you
should be prepared to supply a paper copy as an appendix to
your EMA. Above all, remember that evidence must be relevant.
Dont use evidence in appendices to pad out your assignment
with extra material.
Remember that a narrative is Telling a story. A series of
numbered paragraphs, in the style of the archetypal technical
report, just will not do. The kind of evidence you provide will
depend on your personal circumstances and approach to the T191
activities and on your choice of material for your EMA. A good
general rule is that, whenever you make a general statement
about yourself or your work, you should always back it up with
specific examples or refer to evidence that supports your claim.
For instance, your evidence could well contain extracts from the
activity sheets that youll be completing as you work on the Study
Book. It could also include such items as letters, reports,
drawings and photographs.
But bear in mind whats been said about narratives: its not
sufficient simply to collect a bundle of evidence and hand this in
as a completed assignment. Your narrative account should link
and interpret the evidence so that it makes sense. The material
should be structured and presented in a form that is clear and
accessible to its intended audience, in this case your tutor.
Remember to be kind to your marker (your tutor). This means that
you should leave plenty of space in margins and between lines
and paragraphs for comments; use headings and sub-headings
where appropriate, and number your pages. Dont forget to run a
spell check if you can.
Try to keep within the recommended maximum word count for
each piece of work. At first sight 2000 words for TMA 01, 1500 for
TMA 02 and 5000 for the EMA might appear to be a daunting
amount of writing. However, once youve begun working through
the module and completing the activities, its more likely that
youll have difficulty keeping the material within these word
counts. Remember that approximately half of your EMA narrative
will be a revision of material youve already prepared for the two
TMAs. Bear in mind, too, that if your scripts are significantly over
length you are likely to lose marks. The limits do not include
material in appendices, but as a general rule of thumb the volume
of your appendices should not exceed that of your narrative text.
Please also make a note of the word count at the end of each
piece of work. Omitting it will also lead to loss of marks.
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Telling a story
What does telling a story mean? In this context, it doesnt
mean a fairy tale, thriller, scorcher, romance, or even a shaggy
dog story. It is a reminder that the onus is on you to provide a
structure and a narrative line that carry the reader along. A
series of disconnected paragraphs remains just that, and is
frustrating to read. As a minimum, a well-structured account
should include an introduction, in which you say what you are
going to do and why; a body, in which you tell your story, and
which itself might require subdividing into sections with
appropriate sub-headings; and your conclusions, in which you
say what youve done and what the outcome is.
Based on this, your narrative for TMA 01, for instance, should
contain the following elements.
The introduction, which sets out the purpose and scope of
the assignment. You could refer here to your own personal
reasons for taking this module. You could draw on your
use of Activity Sheet 2 to indicate some of your initial
long-term goals. You could summarise in a few sentences
the scope of the material you will be presenting in the
assignment.
The body, or main text, which should be your narrative
account describing how you have gone about achieving
each of the learning outcomes and presenting evidence to
show that the criteria have been met. It should also
contain your own reflections on the work you have done:
an assessment of how well you feel you have been able to
match the criteria; where you feel there is room for
further work; what you feel you have learnt from this part
of the module, and how this might influence your future
actions. You should include reference to any sources of
information or assistance that have been particularly
relevant to your learning.
The conclusion, in which you should reflect on your own
performance in completing this assignment. You should
use the key skills descriptions given in the module to
identify which key skills you have used and where you
have used them in completing the assignment, and you
should particularly identify any key skills areas where you
feel your performance needs improving. You should show
that you have considered the question If I were starting
out on this or a similar piece of work, how would I do it
differently?.
Your tutor will tell you how well youve succeeded in telling a
story in your TMAs.
The two assignments are based on the Learning outcomes of
T191. Each assignment is followed by some suggestions on
how you can show that youve achieved these outcomes and the
sort of evidence you could provide in support. You dont have to
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use the form of evidence suggested. For instance, you could draw
on different activities where you feel that these have been more
significant in enabling you to achieve a particular learning
outcome. Again, you could use material taken from your portfolio,
or even from your log book where you feel this provides stronger
evidence than an activity sheet. Remember, you dont have to
include complete and unedited material from your log book. To
echo what it says in the Prologue to the Study Book, this material
is confidential to you. Its up to you to select and edit your work
so that you disclose to your tutor only as much as you want to.
Learning outcomes of T191

When you have completed T191, you should have shown that
you are able to do the following.
Taking stock (Part 1)
1. Provide a review of significant life events including an
analysis of what this says about important themes in your life.
Provide a current curriculum vitae (CV).
2. Analyse your own approach to learning tasks including
results from a learning styles questionnaire.
Key skills (Part 2)
3. Assess your current abilities in some key skills areas and
the factors that are likely to help or hinder your own further
learning and development.
Planning for development (Part 3)
4. Describe two of your development goals in terms of:
(a) their outcomes
(b) the relationship between them
(c) the strategies most appropriate to achieving them
(including your programme of OU study)
(d) your assessment of these strategies in terms of
helping and hindering forces.
5. Outline your development plan linked to a strategy for
achieving its goals and an assessment of that strategy in terms
of factors that may influence its operation.
Reviewing progress (Part 4)
6. Assess your learning and development on T191 and the
implications of what you have learnt and provide records of:
(a) the skills and abilities that you have used
(b) those factors that have helped or hindered your
learning and development.
There are several reasons why completing these assignments is
important. They provide reference markers to you and checks to
your tutor of your progress through the module. Their due dates
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enable you to pace your studies. The feedback provided by your

tutor on your approach and performance in your assignments is
not only valuable in its own right; your response to the feedback
will form part of the summaries of the two assignments, which are
required as part of the EMA. Last, but by no means least, the
marks available for the assignments count towards your overall
score for T191 see Thresholds, substitution and pass
criteria.
Thresholds, substitution and pass criteria

Each of the two TMAs carries half of the continuous assessment
score, and this is weighted at 0.4 towards your overall module
result. The EMA is weighted at 0.6.
Your T191 module result is not classified. Instead you receive a
straightforward Pass/Fail status based on your scores from the
TMAs and the EMA. Exact pass levels are determined for each
presentation by the T191 Examination and Assessment Board,
but tend to be around 40% for both the continuous
assessment and the examined components.
In addition, each TMA has a threshold of 30%. This is lower
than the pass mark, and what it means is that in order to pass
the module you have to score at least 30% in each TMA, as
well as achieving an overall pass for both TMAs and a pass for
the EMA.
So in the unlikely event of your only scoring 30 on TMA 01,
youd have to score at least 50 on TMA 02 to be reasonably
certain of passing (assuming you go on to pass the EMA as
well!).
Note also that no substitution of scores is possible for T191.
Dont be put off by these threshold marks. The evaluation of your
assignments is largely based on how you have engaged with the
process, not on how correct your answer is. In other words, if
your TMA shows that youve made a serious attempt at the
question, you should achieve the threshold even if youve
misunderstood whats required.
Submitting your assignments

TMAs
This module uses the electronic TMA (eTMA) system for
submission of TMAs. To submit your TMA, please go to your
StudentHome page and follow the link(s) provided.
If you foresee any difficulty with submitting your assignment on
time then you should contact your tutor well in advance of the
cut-off date.
For further information about policy, procedure and general
submission of assignments please refer to the Assessment
Handbook, which can also be accessed via your StudentHome
page.
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Online submission
You should bear in mind the following points:
TMAs can be submitted online 24 hours a day.
You can only submit one file for a TMA. If your TMA consists
of more than one file, you must zip these together. You can
use any zip or compression software that creates a file with a
.zip extension.
Your TMA must be in .doc or .rtf format and readable by
Microsoft Word. The .docx extension used by Word 2007 is
not acceptable.
You must ensure that the file you submit is complete (make
sure you save and close the file before you start the
submission process), and that you have chosen the right file
from your computer.
Your TMA file must be no more than 2 MB. If your file is
bigger than this then you should zip it to reduce the size.
All eTMAs are acknowledged immediately by the system; if
you do not receive this acknowledgement, you should submit
your TMA again. You will also receive an email as
confirmation of receipt. You should keep your receipt code in
case you need to prove successful submission.
You are strongly advised to do a dummy run with TMA 00 at
the start of the module, to make sure that there are no
problems when you have to submit a real eTMA.
If the online submission route is not available then you can
submit by email, following the instructions in the Assessment
Handbook (which you can access from StudentHome). This
submission route isnt immediate, however, and you will need to
wait for a return email confirming that your TMA has been
successfully received. You must not submit your TMA by email
directly to your tutor.
You will be notified once your TMA has been marked. You can
then download it to view your tutors comments.
Postal submission
If you are unable to submit via the eTMA system or by email, you
can submit a paper TMA by post to your tutor. However, you must
obtain your tutors permission before submitting through the
postal system. To submit your TMA by post, use A4-size paper
and put your name, your personal identifier, the module code and
the assignment number at the top of every sheet. Then fill in
Section 1 of the threefold TMA form (the PT3), taking particular
care to enter your personal identifier, the module code and the
assignment number correctly (i.e. the module code followed by
the number of the assignment, for example T191 01). The
complete assignment, together with the PT3 form, should be sent
to your tutor for marking (this is the only case where you submit
a TMA directly to your tutor). Remember to:
put your name and address on the back of the envelope
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send it in good time to reach your tutor on or before the

cut-off date
keep a copy of your assignment as a sensible precaution
check that youve put the correct postage on the envelope
send it by ordinary first-class post (sending it by special or
recorded delivery will lead to delays and tutor irritation if
theres no-one at home to sign for it at the other end)
obtain a certificate of posting.
Submission deadline
The dates by which your assignments should be received are
given at the beginning of each assignment. For electronic
submission, you must ensure that you have received a submission
receipt no later than 12 noon on the cut-off date (UK local
time). For postal submission, you must post your TMA in
sufficient time to reach your tutor by the cut-off date.
If there are good reasons why you cant meet a cut-off date and
you need an extension, you must contact your tutor before the
cut-off date to request one. Tutors have limited discretion in
granting extensions for the final TMA and will do so only in
exceptional circumstances.
EMA
Unlike the TMAs, your end-of-module assessment is submitted by
post. You should send two copies of your EMA, together with the
completed ET3 form, to:
Projects, Portfolios and Dissertations Office
The Open University
PO Box 721
Walton Hall
Milton Keynes
MK7 6ZU
Before you send your EMA, check that every page is there and
carries your name, the module code and your personal identifier
(numbering the pages is also a good idea). Make sure to pack it
securely and to obtain a certificate of posting so that you can
confirm the despatch date if necessary. (Remember that these
copies wont be returned to you, so youll need to keep one for
yourself.)
The cut-off date for submission of your EMA is given on the EMA
page of this assignment book as well as on the T191 website. The
University will also notify you of this date in a separate mailing.
You should note that this submission date cannot normally be
extended. If, and only if, serious exceptional circumstances
prevent you from submitting on time then you may apply for an
extension to this cut-off date or even a deferral to the next
presentation, but you should apply before the cut-off. You can
also claim special circumstances, whether or not you have been
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granted an extension, if your work has been affected by any

adverse conditions (see the Assessment Handbook for more
information).
Plagiarism a reminder
If you take material from the module or from anywhere else
(irrespective of whether its a printed or an electronic source) and
incorporate it in your answer word for word, you must indicate
where you have taken it from. Not to do so is termed plagiarism
and is regarded as an infringement of copyright. To attempt to
pass off such work as your own is cheating. You must therefore
acknowledge all your sources of information.
For more information about what constitutes plagiarism or
cheating, see the T191 Guide or the current Assessment
Handbook.
Tutor-marked assignment TMA T191 01

This assignment covers Parts 1 and 2 of T191. It carries half the
available continuous assessment marks. There is also a threshold:
you need to score at least 30% in this assignment to pass the
module.
You should submit your completed assignment to the eTMA
system to arrive no later than 12 noon (UK local time) on the
cut-off date: Thursday, 24 November 2011.
If you havent already done so, youll find it helpful to read the
General information section of this assignment book before you
start work on this TMA. Theres also information on Assessment,
Presentation and Word count in the T191 Guide.
Preamble
The assignment is provided on the following page. It covers the
learning outcomes linked to Parts 1 and 2 of the module. This will
allow you to demonstrate the use of self-assessment skills and the
development of self-awareness and context awareness. Your tutor
can check that youre able to present your work in an appropriate
form for assessment and will give you feedback at an early stage
in your work on T191. Following the assignment is a set of hints
that amplify whats required.
The assignment
In not more than 2000 words of narrative (not counting any
supporting evidence), demonstrate that you have achieved
learning outcomes 13 of T191 (those linked to Parts 1 and 2 of
the module).
To do this you should:
relate significant events in your life and their influence on
major outcomes to date (you should support this with a copy
of your current CV, of maximum length four A4 sides)
examine your own approach to learning tasks (you should
support this with a copy of your results from the online
learning styles questionnaire)
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use relevant examples to assess your key skills abilities and

review the factors affecting your future learning and
development
describe what were your two most important development
goals when you signed up for T191, and briefly indicate how
you were expecting to achieve them.
Notes on TMA 01
Here are some hints on tackling the numbered points in the
assignment.
Point 1
You should be able to show that you have completed a review of
the main themes and events in your life. As evidence for this you
could use the Lifeline exercise, including a copy of Activity
Sheet 3 (or an edited version of this) in the assignment. You
should also demonstrate that youve been able to draw some
general conclusions about yourself from your life review.
You were asked to draft your CV for Activity 5. Your updated CV
should be attached to TMA 01 as additional evidence. Note that
the OUs Careers Advisory Service website (accessible from
StudentHome or from the T191 website) provides excellent
guidance on CVs and on other aspects of applying for jobs. The
content and presentation of the CV are far more important than
the total length. You dont have to go up to the page limit to
maximise your score.
Point 2
You should show that you have explored and analysed your own
approach to learning tasks. As evidence for this you could:
include a description of the learning incident you identified
for Activity 7, showing how it relates to one of the learning
style models
describe your own style of learning, analyse your own
strengths and weaknesses as a learner and give an
assessment of how these insights into your approach to
learning tasks will influence your approach to learning and
problem solving in the future (related to Activity
Sheets 611).
Dont forget to include a copy of your results from the Index of
Learning Styles questionnaire.
Point 3
You should show that you have been able to assess your current
abilities in some key skills areas. As evidence for this you could:
provide a commentary on the relevant Activity Sheets (for
example 1218) and append those that are appropriate
provide examples of events that you think demonstrate your
use of key skills, and assess the levels at which these skills
were applied
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give examples of direct and indirect evidence that you could

use to back up your claim to be able to use this skill at that
level
include the lists of hindering and helping forces you drew up
for Activity Sheet 19, and assess which of the hindering
forces could be changed and what you are prepared to do
about them
give an assessment of your own reaction to the prospect of
change, drawing on the work you did in completing Activity
Sheet 20
include the support network diagram you completed for
Activity Sheet 21 to show where you anticipate personal
support coming from, adding your own comments on how
your support network might usefully be strengthened and
extended.
Point 4
This is to start you thinking about development goals the more
relevant to engineering the better as a starting point for Part 3
of T191 and, more particularly, learning outcome 4.
General
Dont forget Telling a story above, and its recommendations
about structuring your work. If you skipped it on your first look at
this assignment book, read it now, before you start your
assignment.
Also, dont forget to include your word count.
Tutor-marked assignment TMA T191 02

This assignment covers Part 3 of T191. It carries half the available
continuous assessment marks. There is also a threshold: you need
to score at least 30% in this assignment to pass the module.
You should submit your completed assignment to the eTMA
system to arrive no later than 12 noon (UK local time) on the
cut-off date: Thursday, 9 February 2012.
Its probably not a bad idea to refresh your memory by re-reading
the General information section of this assignment book plus the
information on Assessment, Presentation and Word count in
the T191 Guide.
Preamble
This assignment covers the learning outcomes for Part 3 of the
module, as you move from designing a number of development
plans to proposing a specific one for the EMA. It allows your tutor
to check that the one you intend to feature shows a coherent
progression from your development plans, and that what you
intend for the EMA is realistic and practical given the time
constraints of this module. The feedback from your tutor can help
to steer you away from ideas that may be impractical, or can
advise you how to adapt an idea in a way that fits the assessment
criteria more accurately and will therefore be scored more highly.
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As before, the assignment is provided on the following page, after

which is a set of hints.
The assignment
In not more than 1500 words of narrative (not counting any
supporting evidence), demonstrate that you have achieved
learning outcomes 4 and 5 of T191 (those linked to Part 3 of the
module).
To do this you should:
provide examples and evidence that demonstrate that you
have understood the four-stage process of development
planning and that you can describe and evaluate a number of
long-term goals
update your initial two most important development goals
from TMA 01, and briefly account for any changes in them
explore contexts for these goals by looking at alternative
possible development plans, in terms of strategies for
achieving them and likelihoods of success (helping and
hindering forces)
outline a first draft of your preferred development plan (you
should include your proposed programme of study and
details of any credit transfer).
Notes on TMA 02
Here are some hints on tackling the numbered points in the
assignment.
Point 1
Evidence for this would be that you have operated the process as
described in Part 3 of T191, and produced a number of realistic
plans that are relevant to your own situation. You should select at
least two of your most important long-term goals and offer some
reflection on why these are important for you. Again, the more
relevant to engineering these are the better. Using a diagram like
Figure 3.5 in the Study Book (feasibilityattractiveness matrix)
would then allow you to illustrate and comment on the
relationship between the goals youve identified.
You should show that you can assess the viability of alternative
strategies for achieving priority goals, taking account of personal
and contextual factors. Evidence for this could be provided by
describing one of your goals in terms of the outcomes you are
aiming for, the criteria you will be using to judge your success
and the evidence that will demonstrate that you have succeeded.
You will need to describe the strategy that you feel is most likely
to succeed in realising this goal, say why you chose this strategy,
and indicate those forces that will help or hinder you in
implementing it.
Point 2
No hints needed should be self-evident.
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Point 3
You should show that you are able to describe, evaluate and
choose between alternative development plans in preparation for
the EMA. As an example of the type of evidence you could provide
for this, if youve got far enough ahead, you could use Activity
Sheets 2326 in Part 4 of T191.
Point 4
In presenting the outline of your draft development plan you are,
in effect, indicating how you plan to tackle the EMA. Your plan
should naturally be built around the two most important goals that
you identified earlier, but you should feel free to include other
goals too. Once again, the more relevant to engineering these are
the better. Evidence of any contacts with the professional
engineering institutions, or discussions about your career
aspirations with professional engineers, could also be included
here.
It is important that you include your planned programme of OU
study (which you will be asked to compile for Activity 23) and
details of any credit transfer you are intending to claim. Bear in
mind that T191 tutors are not appointed for their particular
expertise in the minutiae of the OUs degree regulations or in the
OU module-specific entry requirements of engineering institutions.
Thus you should not take any approval of your study plan by your
T191 tutor as signifying that your planned studies satisfy either of
these sets of criteria. Neither does it represent any sort of
commitment on the OUs part that the modules will be available at
the time you intend to study them. It is your responsibility to
update your study plan as you progress through the OU.
General
Dont forget Telling a story in the introduction to this
assignment book
and dont forget to include your word count.
End-of-module assessment
You should submit two copies of your completed EMA to the
address given in the introduction to this assignment book, to
arrive no later than the cut-off date: Friday, 18 May 2012.
Theres relevant information on the EMA in the T191 Guide: for
example, look under Assessment, End-of-module assessment,
Evidence, Portfolio, Presentation and Word count.
Preamble
Your EMA should contain a clear and easily understood account,
and this will be helped if you can integrate the components of
your account into one coherent narrative (remember Telling a
story?). It should not be a log of what you did in T191. Rather
you should present a history of your personal development, based
on your work in T191, towards the preparation of your plan for
building and/or advancing your life in engineering. In other
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words, your account should be an appropriate blend of

autobiographical events, motivations, self-critiques, aspirations,
pressures, analyses of feasibility and reflections on personal
progression, but not forgetting your actual plan itself!
The EMA
In not more than 5000 words of main text so not including
supporting evidence present an account of how you intend to
progress your career in engineering (i.e. your development plan).
This should start with a self-evaluation, go on to describe how
you formulated your general development plans, home in on the
specification of a single career plan, and finish with a reflection on
what studying T191 has done for you. In Part 3 of your EMA, you
must include your actual development plan as it has emerged from
your work on T191.
You are recommended to use the following structure and main
headings, to make a note of your word count at the end of each
section, and to read the Notes on the EMA at the end. The
structure also shows you the suggested distribution of marks.
Recommended structure of your EMA

Suggested EMA title: My development plan
1 Introduction (maximum of 500 words)
This should include:
your personal introduction
your reasons for taking the module
your expected outcomes.
(There are 5 marks available for this section.)
2 Taking stock (maximum of 1500 words)
an overview of significant life events
an analysis of the main themes in your life
an assessment of your own approach to learning
an assessment of your use of key skills
an assessment of helping and hindering forces
an account of how you have used feedback on your TMAs
from your tutor that is relevant to this section.
3 Planning for development (maximum of 2000 words)
Your development plan, which should include:
a description and evaluation of your plan, including
a description of your development goals
an analysis of why these goals are important
an assessment of the viability of your two most
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important goals
an account of how you have used feedback on your TMAs
from your tutor that is relevant to this section.
4 Reviewing progress (maximum of 1000 words)
your reflection on what was learnt from your work on the
development plan
a review of your learning and development over the whole
module
an assessment of how this will influence your future actions.
5 List of references
6 Appendices
These should include:
your CV (revised and updated from TMA 01)
your proposed study plan and credit transfer details (revised
and updated from TMA 02)
those of your completed activity sheets that are relevant
copies of any documentary evidence that you wish to include.
(There are 10 marks available for sections 5 and 6 together.)
In addition, 10 marks are allocated for overall presentation and a
further 5 marks for keeping within and recording your word
counts.
Notes on the EMA

Youll notice that Sections 1, 2 and 3 cover similar ground to that
asked for in the two TMAs, so youve already done a lot of the
work. Thus Sections 1 and 2 of your account (Introduction and
Taking stock) should effectively summarise (in not more than
2000 words) the relevant parts of the two assignments TMA 01
and TMA 02. Material from these TMAs should also provide the
starting point for Section 3 of the EMA (Planning for
development).
The words clear and easily understood were italicised in the
preamble to emphasise their importance in your written
presentation.
Remember that T191 is a module about career development in the
context of engineering, so the more you can emphasise the
relevance of your goals and your plan to engineering the better.
Think about how to make appropriate use of appendices. Any
material that you include as evidence in your appendices not only
should be relevant to the main text, but also should be explicitly
referred to as part of your narrative in that text. So dont just
bundle all your certificates and activity sheets into an appendix
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and expect (or hope) that your marker will guess why theyre
included. Be selective, and provide links to them in your main text
if you cant, leave them out. See the note on appendices and the
advice on their length under Length of assignments in the T191
Guide.
Another tip: the List of references gives you an opportunity to
cite something as evidence without having to include it as a hard
copy in your appendices (see Quoting from a reference source
in the T191 Guide). However, its helpful if a reference is
something thats publicly available so that a reader can track it
down (for example public library, company literature, website).
Dont forget to include your CV and study plan.
Remember, too, the importance of your word counts.
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