Some suggestions for 2686 essays - presentation methods

Below are some suggestions on writing 2686 essays.

OCR A2 ‘A’ Geography: 2686
Some idea on essays about presentation methods:

Don’t actually bother drawing detailed examples unless you are specifically told to. Most of the time ‘the effort doesn’t justify the marks gained’.

…but it might be useful to have a quick example and then annotate to point out positive and negative as long as you refer to these ideas in the text.

If you are asked to critically assess/evaluate/discuss the effectiveness of a type of method think about:
Are there any class intervals? (In other words, groups of data.)
How are they decided – size and number? Does this lead to bias?
Where are the boundaries if it is a map?
What colours might be used and why?
Is the information being presented in % form? Absolute values? What is good and bad about each of these?

If you have to compare two or more methods, the same ‘checklist’ can be used.

If you have to ‘outline the steps taken’ to produce something think about:
The number of classes and justify why you would choose a certain number
The size of classes and justify why you would choose that number
A high mark might include a diagram
A high mark might refer to the method of construction (e.g. hand drawn, using a GIS map based software, using a spreadsheet like Excel)
Make sure you know the terms that you are referring to – do you know the difference between a histogram and a bar graph?