[0:00]Welcome to the next video in our series where we're going to go through the CAT PAT Phase 1. In our previous videos we set up a folder structure, we created our report document and we did our task definition and focus question.
[0:13]So we'll now we're going to go to the last bit of the phase one, but it's quite a big part. There's lots of elements to it and that is the 10 questions.
[0:20]So before we even get to these 10 questions, we're going to look at how we can set up our document so that we can fill in the details for these 10 questions because it does require quite a bit of a setup.
[0:30]So just so you got context, these are the questions that are going to help us with our research, but get some clarity on the topic and give us some ideas and research related to the theme. So let's get set up first.
[0:41]So we are at this part of the Pat, we just finished our focus question in the previous video and now we need to do our 10 questions, but before we do that, as I said, we need to set up this table as an appendix.
[0:52]So I'm going to help you get that all sorted. There are two ways that you can do it. I'm going to show you both ways, so you can pick the best way that you're more comfortable with and then that can hopefully get you started on the next part where we actually do the research and find out what these questions are going to be.
[1:05]So, first of all, we're going to create a new appendix under the heading Appendices you created in your report. Give it a suitable heading, like Questions and Sources Table.
[1:12]So if I go to my report, if I scroll all the way down to the appendices, you'll remember that we had Appendix A which was our folder structure and our Appendix C was our declaration.
[1:23]So I'm going to make this Appendix B. I'm going to give the name Questions and Sources Table.
[1:27]Now, the thing about this table, if you look here at the document, you can see it's quite a long table. There's lots of things that we've got to fill out and for us to do that efficiently,
[1:35]it would be best if this page was actually not portrait, but landscape. Now we don't want that to affect the other pages. We want that still to be portrait and that I'm still fine with being portrait.
[1:46]So what we're going to do is we have to make use of section breaks. So I'm going to come in front of the heading and we're going to come here to layout.
[1:52]We are going to insert a section break. Now you'll see we still have our page there, that's fine. And we're going to turn this page into landscape.
[2:01]And by doing that, you see we haven't affected the pages above it. However, we have affected the pages below it.
[2:06]So over here, I'm going to insert a section break and make this page, we are on this page now, I'm going to make this one back to portrait.
[2:13]So as you can see, we've just got this page as a landscape page. So that's the first thing I'm going to do to set up that document.
[2:20]And then next we need to put in a table. Now you'll see that we are going to have 10 questions. What I'm going to do is I'm only going to set it up for the first question and then we can just copy and paste that as we go along.
[2:31]So let's just get the headings and one row working and then we can copy and paste that multiple times for the other questions.
[2:37]So we need 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 columns, but because I've done this before and I know what to expect, I'm going to give you a bit of a tip here.
[2:46]Biological information and quality information are going to need to have two columns for each of those. So we actually need 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 columns for this table.
[2:57]So over here we're going to insert a table. We're going to have two rows, but we need 10 columns. Now you see we can't reach the full max.
[3:04]So let's go insert table and say we want 10 columns and two rows. So there we go. So there's the start of it.
[3:11]The first one is just a number so we can make it quite thin. So I'm going to make this very thin here and call this N O for short and that'll be question one in the first place.
[3:20]Over here we're going to have our question where we'll write what the question is.
[3:24]Then we're going to have question level, which is going to be a 1, 2, 3 or 4. So I'm actually going to put it question level like that.
[3:32]And if you want you can put the 1, 2, 3. So I'm actually going to put 1-4 there so I can see that it's going to be 1-4. We can make that a bit thinner if we want.
[3:39]Then we need category and top of source. Now that's going to be little short text, that will also be quite small so we can keep that quite thin.
[3:47]We can actually we can make that a little bit smaller just to give me more space for the stuff that's coming out afterwards.
[3:51]And then we need biographical information. Now the reason why I said you need two columns for this, if I scroll down a bit, you'll see we've got headings and then the details for those headings for biographical information.
[4:03]So I'm actually going to merge those two cells so that I've got two columns underneath.
[4:09]So biographical information. And then here will be the headings for the biographical and this will be the details for those headings. And then for the quality of information,
[4:16]you'll see that there's something very similar there. We're going to have quality of information, we're going to have all those headings and information about those headings.
[4:23]So I'm going to merge these as well and say quality of information.
[4:30]And then here we're going to write our summary. Now this is quite short for a summary. They mentioned summary of information found.
[4:36]I'm sure summary should be fine, but we're going to write a lot of information here. So what I would maybe do is if we click over here outside of the table,
[4:43]let's maybe adjust the margins. Maybe we want to go to layout and make it a little bit more narrow.
[4:47]So we've got a lot more space and by doing that, what we can do is we can then extend the summary to be a lot longer so we can fit a lot more information under summary.
[4:57]So let's make sure our headings stick out. So we're going to select them all and we're going to make them nice and bold.
[5:02]You could maybe pick one of the styles, maybe you want a particular style for it. Bold should be fine. I like to give mine a nice shading so I can see it's the first row.
[5:08]So I'm going to give mine a nice little shade like that. And I want them to be a lot more easier to read by changing their vertical alignment.
[5:15]So where they are vertically in the cell. So if I come out to table layout, we can make them more like that. I think that looks a little bit fancier.
[5:23]Before we say that we finished, I want to just remind ourselves, we're going to be putting lots of things under biographical and lots of things under quality.
[5:29]So if you look at the example they give in the document, there's 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 rows for one question.
[5:37]Sometimes there are four, but sometimes there are five. So there's going to be depending on the source where we find the information from.
[5:42]So let's just assume it's going to be five. We can always merge cells if we need to. But if you look here as well at the quality, it's 1, 2, 3, 4, 5.
[5:50]They also have five criteria or five rows for the quality of information. So technically for each question, we should have five rows available.
[5:59]So what I'm going to do is I'm going to create five rows and I did that just by pressing tabs.
[6:05]So here we'll put our five headings. If we are short one, we'll just combine it and merge it and there we've got our five headings for our quality of information, but all of these will be one.
[6:14]So I'm going to go here and merge these cells. I'll do it for all of them and then don't forget to merge the summary.
[6:20]And what I'm going to do for these is I'm going to make sure that they're nice and centered in the middle like that. The same for summary.
[6:27]So that sets it up nicely for one question. So now we can select all these cells, make sure that you even select the extra rows that we've got.
[6:36]I just pressed shift enter to make sure I've selected everything and I'm going to copy it and then underneath we can paste it multiple times, making sure we've got one for each of 10 questions.
[6:44]So we've got one, two, three, four and five. And then let's add five more. So there are my 10 questions.
[6:51]So I'm actually going to make sure that they all are vertically aligned nicely and just make sure that the same affects these ones over here for the summary.
[7:00]So there you can see I've got my 10 questions set up. Now, before I start laying it out like, maybe I want some questions to be on a brand new page, maybe keep the headings at the top.
[7:10]Before I do that, I'm first going to fill out the data and then I'll go from there. Fill out the data and then I can see how far it gets to the bottom before I start shifting things to a new page, because it might make these columns a little bit bigger still with all the information we're going to add.
[7:21]To make it really stand out, I actually want to put a darker line around each individual row.
[7:28]You could have done this before and it would have probably been easier to copy. So just select it and then you come here to design and under borders and borders and shading,
[7:33]we're just going to give it a thicker line. So we're just going to select, deselect one and then go we can go change to a thicker line and then just add that line to the edges.
[7:42]Just so that it's got a nice thick line around it. And I'm going to do that for all of them.
[7:46]So there you can see I've added a nice little border so we can clearly see each individual question. Should probably do that to the headings as well.
[7:52]So just going to change their headings as well. Make sure we select the top, the bottom and make sure we check all the sides.
[8:00]So there we go. It's nicely laid out, we can see it very clearly. So now we've set up our tables. Now we can get into our questions.
[8:05]Now, if you feel this is quite long and quite difficult to fill in and you're worried about space, there is another way that you can do this table. I'm going to use this in a brand new document.
[8:14]So here I've got a brand new document. And if we look at this document, what I'm going to do for this version is I'm not going to include biographical information or quality of information.
[8:21]I'm going to just do question number, question, the question level, the category, the type and the information. So I'm just going to create that table.
[8:29]I'm still going to keep it landscape because I still want to maximize my space all the details. So there you can see I've got my 10 questions still.
[8:39]And I've got a lot more space now for the summary. Now, the reason why I took the other two parts away, you're still going to do them, but what I know in advance is that
[8:50]we are going to find the answers. So this information for our questions from at least three different sources.
[8:53]Which was covered in another video, but just to give some clarity, we need at least two website sources and one other source.
[9:01]So we are going to be writing out the bibliography data like this and the quality of the information for at least three sources.
[9:10]So it's possible that multiple questions will get their information from the same source.
[9:16]Which means in our original idea, we're going to be filling this information out multiple times for multiple rows because question one might be answered by the same source as question three and question four, for example.
[9:25]So by doing it this way, what we can do is when we get a source, for example, we know we're going to have three sources. Maybe this is a website comma source one.
[9:33]Then what I'm going to do at the bottom here is create another table which creates a summary of the bibliography information and the quality of the information for just that one source.
[9:44]So that means we can have, for example, over here, website, source one as well. So then that table that we do over here applies to both question one and question four.
[9:54]The summaries might be different for the questions, the levels might be different, the categories might be different for the questions, but the information where we getting the answers from are coming from the same source.
[10:02]So I'm going to come over here and create a another table. Then I need those two columns for the biographical data and the two columns for the quality of the information.
[10:12]So there we go. So this will be our heading and then here's where we'll put our data.
[10:16]If you remember for the biographical data, we needed five rows and for the quality we needed five rows.
[10:20]So I'm just going to do that here as well. So add a couple more rows. So there I've got my five. So that here's where my headings will go. Source.
[10:28]So maybe that'll be website, source one. And we can merge all this. And then this, if we merge that,
[10:37]that'll be my biographical information. And then if we merge that, that'll be my quality of information.
[10:43]And we're obviously going to have a lot more details there. So this will be the way the headings go. For example, the author, name of the web page, we'll get to those once we know what the sources are.
[10:50]But for our criteria, we definitely know those will be the headings. So technically over here, we can actually make that a bit shorter.
[10:57]So we know the quality of information will be those headings, so we can actually write those in advance and make them nice and bold.
[11:01]So technically this is a web site source. So it will have those headings there as well. So there we go. Those are technically the same ones there as well.
[11:07]So I'm going to just make those headings nice and bold and you can make it look a bit pretty.
[11:11]So now when I look over here at website source one for question one and four, I can come down here and see all those details.
[11:19]And as I said, we're going to need to have at least two websites, so we're going to copy and paste that twice.
[11:24]And this will be my source two. And then we need another one, so let's go and add another one and then this one's going to be for a non-website source.
[11:33]So we need an author, title, date published and the publisher.
[11:38]I'm going to leave URL because it might be a online article. And this will be my other source, which could be like a research article.
[11:46]Or whatever it's going to be, so we'll change that name to whatever we are using for our third source. So there we go. That's another way to set up the table for the questions.
[11:53]You pick which way is best for you. Over here, I could technically have put those values in there as well. So I can just copy and paste these for all of them because we're going to cover those same topics for each of them.
[12:03]So as you can see, this will do the job like they specified, but it does get a bit cramped in your individual rows are going to get very thick.
[12:11]So you might only fit like two or three questions on a page because your summary and all this information is going to take up a lot of space.
[12:17]So that's why doing it like this might give you a little bit more flexibility with that space, but both of them will get you all the mark.
[12:24]So that's just setting up the questions and the sources table. Once we've done that, now we can actually get to the nitty-gritty of actually going to do the research on these questions.
[12:33]So let's get stuck into that in our next video. We are posting lots of videos to help you with your CAT pack, so make sure that you subscribe to the channel at Mr Long IT and CAT. Make sure you share us with your friends and follow us on Tik Tok as well at Mr Long Education, so you don't miss when we post a new update.
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