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Glossary

deadline A deadline is a time or date before which a particular task must be finished or a particular thing must be done.

collate When you collate pieces of information, you gather them all together and examine them.

It is always important to finish your tasks on time. In order to do this, you have to understand what tasks need to be done, who is going to do them and when they need to be finished. One way of doing this is by using a Gantt chart. This can show the following information in graphic form: a list of sub-tasks, the date when they have to be done and who is responsible for doing them.

Look at the group assignment below.

For example: Conduct a survey among city centre shoppers to discover the strength of popular support for a new indoor shopping mall in the city centre. Present your findings in a written report of 2,500 words by the deadline given on the front of this sheet.

The first stage is to work together to write a list of sub-tasks for the assignment. For the group assignment above you might produce a list of sub-tasks.

1 Write questions for your group to ask the shoppers.

2 Design a survey feedback sheet to record answers.

3 Carry out the survey in the city centre.

4 Collate all the answers, in other words, put them all together and get some clear data.

5 Draft the different parts of the report: an introduction, a methodology section, a results section, a discussion section and a conclusion.

6 Add some charts to give a visual representation of the answers.

7 Review and edit the report.

8 Write a final draft of the report.

9 Print out, bind and submit the report.

Glossary

methodology A methodology is a system of methods and principles for doing something, for example for carrying out research.

The next stage is to allocate group members for the sub-tasks.

For example:

Task	Group member
Write the questionnaire.	Everyone
Design the survey feedback sheet.	Adnan and Gisele
Type up, print out and distribute the feedback sheet.	Roberta
Carry out the survey.	Everyone
Collate data.	Taka
Write a draft of each part of the report.	Introduction: Adnan and Gisele Methodology: Taka Results: Roberta Discussion: All Conclusion: All
Add charts.	Taka
Review and edit the report.	All
Prepare the final draft of the report.	Roberta
Print, bind and submit the report.	Adnan and Gisele

After allocating roles, you need to add the time when the sub-tasks should be done, as shown in the table on page 34.

Task	Group member	To be completed on
Write the questionnaire.	Everyone	Monday, 1/10/12
Design the survey feedback sheet.	Adnan and Gisele	Tuesday, 2/10/12
Type up, print out and distribute the feedback survey sheet.	Roberta	Tuesday, 2/10/12
Carry out the survey.	Everyone	Wednesday, 3/10/12
Collate data.	Taka	Thursday, 4/10/12
Write a draft of each part of the report.	Introduction: Adnan and GiseleMethodology: Taka Results: Roberta Discussion: All Conclusion: All	Friday, 5/10/12 Saturday, 6/10/12 Sunday, 7/10/12 Monday, 8/10/12 Monday, 8/10/12
Add charts.	Taka	Tuesday, 9/10/12
Review and edit the report.	All	Wednesday, 10/10/12
Complete the final draft of the report.	Roberta	Thursday, 11/10/12
Print, bind and submit the report.	Adnan and Gisele	Friday, 12/10/12

Finally, you can put all this information into a chart format (similar to a Gantt chart).

For example:

Exercise 3

Read about the group assignment below and fill in the table as a work chart for Sarah, Nou and Fahad. You might wish to put this into a Gantt chart using appropriate software.

Sarah, Nou and Fahad have five days to complete a group work assignment: making a video of their university campus as a guide to new students. On the afternoon of the fifth day, they are going to show the video to the class and give a presentation justifying and explaining their video. They met on Monday morning to plan their week’s work and decided the following:

 On Monday afternoon they will split up and each group member will research and visit the locations they have chosen to focus on.