Appendix One
Assignment Date (week Whether or not completed Modifications/changes made/
beginning) any other comments
Complete 20/09/2021 I have come up with ideas I slightly altered my topic
record of initial and decided on my topic and title after meeting with my
ideas and meet topic title, focusing on supervisor, as I felt my title
with cultural medicine and how it was too broad and unfocused
supervisor. has impacted modern so I have now decided to look
medicine. at Ottoman Islamic Medicine
specifically and how it has
influenced modern medicine.
Create a 27/09/2021 I have collated sources and
document identified some potential
listing sources starting points to begin my
discovered so research.
far and find
sources to use
as starting
points to begin
research.
Complete 04/10/2021 After looking and making I have altered the subject of
project notes on my initial sources, I my research and changed my
proposal part completed project proposal topic question to focus on Ibn
A. part A. Sina rather than Ottoman or
Islamic Medicine as a whole,
so I have collated a few more
sources that specifically relate
to Ibn Sina. I felt that
focusing on one great
physician will ensure my
essay is focused and allows
for both analysis and
evaluation with my question
beginning with ‘to what
extent’. I was wary that I may
not compile enough data on
Avicenna, however, after
initial research on Avicenna’s
five volume Canon of
Medicine, I feel there will be
plenty of information to
derive from his life’s work
and its significance to modern
medicine.
, Read and make 11/10/2021 As I began making notes and I have begun to identify some
notes on 3 conducting websites and areas of significance in his
initial sources. articles, I was led to research work such as his invention of
further and looked at a total quarantine which relates to
of 5 initial sources, gathering modern medicine and his
my own notes as well as work on the pulse which is
direct quotations. similar to what is known
today.
Gather follow 18/10/2021 I researched a further three I have arranged my notes on
up detailed sources but have to catch up research in a document that
research on 5 and research follow up organises each source
more sources sources to my current notes. alphabetically with a
and create summary beneath each source
notes. to make it easier to reference
and refer to research when it
comes to writing my report in
the future.
Visit the 25/10/2021 During the holidays, I didn't I found a copy of a book
university's have the chance to visit the online on The Canon of
library to find library due to spending my Medicine, so I have been
more journals, holiday with family researching this which has
articles etc. elsewhere. However, I hope been extremely beneficial to
Complete the to go in the near future to the development of my
first box on the gather varying sources of knowledge on Ibn Sina’s
planning other research I have not yet work.
review. looked at.
Continue 01/11/2021 I am beginning to refine and
research on 5 categorise my research by
more sources. printing some key sources to
Read and make annotate. This enables me to
notes on them. ask questions that lead to
follow-up research, providing
my research with greater
depth, and developing my
understanding for when I
begin to write my essay.
I have researched 5 further
sources and hope to catch up
on the two I missed after
meeting with my supervisor.
Due to assessments this
week, I have not completed
as much work as I’d hoped
to. However, I did put in
place an accurate referencing
process through the use of
harvard referencing.
Assignment Date (week Whether or not completed Modifications/changes made/
beginning) any other comments
Complete 20/09/2021 I have come up with ideas I slightly altered my topic
record of initial and decided on my topic and title after meeting with my
ideas and meet topic title, focusing on supervisor, as I felt my title
with cultural medicine and how it was too broad and unfocused
supervisor. has impacted modern so I have now decided to look
medicine. at Ottoman Islamic Medicine
specifically and how it has
influenced modern medicine.
Create a 27/09/2021 I have collated sources and
document identified some potential
listing sources starting points to begin my
discovered so research.
far and find
sources to use
as starting
points to begin
research.
Complete 04/10/2021 After looking and making I have altered the subject of
project notes on my initial sources, I my research and changed my
proposal part completed project proposal topic question to focus on Ibn
A. part A. Sina rather than Ottoman or
Islamic Medicine as a whole,
so I have collated a few more
sources that specifically relate
to Ibn Sina. I felt that
focusing on one great
physician will ensure my
essay is focused and allows
for both analysis and
evaluation with my question
beginning with ‘to what
extent’. I was wary that I may
not compile enough data on
Avicenna, however, after
initial research on Avicenna’s
five volume Canon of
Medicine, I feel there will be
plenty of information to
derive from his life’s work
and its significance to modern
medicine.
, Read and make 11/10/2021 As I began making notes and I have begun to identify some
notes on 3 conducting websites and areas of significance in his
initial sources. articles, I was led to research work such as his invention of
further and looked at a total quarantine which relates to
of 5 initial sources, gathering modern medicine and his
my own notes as well as work on the pulse which is
direct quotations. similar to what is known
today.
Gather follow 18/10/2021 I researched a further three I have arranged my notes on
up detailed sources but have to catch up research in a document that
research on 5 and research follow up organises each source
more sources sources to my current notes. alphabetically with a
and create summary beneath each source
notes. to make it easier to reference
and refer to research when it
comes to writing my report in
the future.
Visit the 25/10/2021 During the holidays, I didn't I found a copy of a book
university's have the chance to visit the online on The Canon of
library to find library due to spending my Medicine, so I have been
more journals, holiday with family researching this which has
articles etc. elsewhere. However, I hope been extremely beneficial to
Complete the to go in the near future to the development of my
first box on the gather varying sources of knowledge on Ibn Sina’s
planning other research I have not yet work.
review. looked at.
Continue 01/11/2021 I am beginning to refine and
research on 5 categorise my research by
more sources. printing some key sources to
Read and make annotate. This enables me to
notes on them. ask questions that lead to
follow-up research, providing
my research with greater
depth, and developing my
understanding for when I
begin to write my essay.
I have researched 5 further
sources and hope to catch up
on the two I missed after
meeting with my supervisor.
Due to assessments this
week, I have not completed
as much work as I’d hoped
to. However, I did put in
place an accurate referencing
process through the use of
harvard referencing.
