If you are carring out your research as part of an academic assignment, it is important to familiarise yourself with the criteria by which your report will be judged before you start planning your study. For an undergraduate, or an initial teaching education assignment, it iss likely to be sufficient that you relate your findings back to the literature to show how what you found links with previous research. In the previous section I discussed Dry's research study undertaken during his PGCE. As pointed out above, Dry submitted to the university a formal report of his research, which was later published in JoTTER (Dry, 2010). He described his study as AR, but provided a detailed and clear exposition of purpose of his study;