This presentation was delivered to Second Year undergraduate students at the University of Brighton on the 7th of March 2019. The tips delivered in this presentation were developed due to my previous achievement of recieving a grade of 87% on the essay that I had submitted the year before.

1. HOW TO WRITE A FIRST
CLASS GAMIFICATION
ESSAY
KIRA DOWNER

2. HOW TO WRITE
A FIRST CLASS
GAMIFICATION
ESSAY
I’m going to share a
couple of copies with
you all at the end…

3. TIP #1 WORDS
• Use all of them! +/- 10%
• Images do not count towards the
wordcount
• Neither do tables

4. TIP #2 DO SOMETHING NEW
• Examples from workshops…
probably have been heard a few
times before…

5. TIP #2 DO SOMETHING NEW
• Get really niche/specific
• Use your own real life experiences
• For example one of my prototype
ideas involved gamifying the
process of getting people to stop
smoking outside Mithras House

6. TIP #3 KNOW WHY YOU’VE USED DIFFERENT
FRAMEWORKS
This is super important!
If you use a framework that is not
appropriate for your precise
business issue and also can’t justify
why you’ve chosen this over one
which would have been more
appropriate it’s going to look like
you’ve not thought about things.

7. TIP #4 USE OF RESOURCES
• Thought leaders, reach out to them, they
are usually happy to answer your
questions
• Conference videos, they have the
LATEST research

8. TIP #5: MISCELLANEOUS TIPS
• Save your document as a pdf so it’s easier to upload.
• You MAY want to save all your links as bit.ly links, but there’s a good chance that
Pete will know the link just by how it looks
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ
http://bit.ly/exampleKira
• Get someone to check it!
• Check out your mates assignments. Don’t get silly and copy specific phrasing,
but it will give you a good idea of what you can change/do yourself

9. IT’S YOUR CHANCE TO BE REALLY CREATIVE…
• Some assignments are black and
white, e.g. you have to do x, y and z…
• Not this one, there is SO much
freedom to be creative…
• Creativity tends to equal a better
mark… and it’s not just be saying this!

10. BE CREATIVE!! !
http://bit.ly/UoBGrades
Have a look at these generic descriptions
yourself.

11. THANK YOU!
• Any questions?
Also, does anyone want
be to in my selfie?
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