COP 3 Lecture 3

Resolving Your Research Project (Academic Conventions)


Introduction - What your going to address & how your going to address it?

Certain ways to show your have come to an informed decision.
Academic conventions, referencing and & acknowledging where these ideas have come from...

At this level you are expected to be able to:
Demonstrate a critical knowledge of practice.
Apply theory to practice - You been an original thinker.
Analyse relevant material - own analysis & thinking.

Am I evidencing that I am analysis & critical knowledge of my practice.

Deep engagement with the topic.

Bloom's Hierachy
Gaining an understanding of a topic is at the bottom, just knowledge.
Comprehension is understanding how facts relate to each other.
Application is taking that understanding & applying it to something.

Anderson & Pohl
They flipped the top 2 and thought that creation is doing something with that knowledge.

They need synthesis & critiquing.


Surface Approach
Caused by a lack of investigation.
You should avoid this...

Passive acceptance - do you challenge ideas & unpick them?
Link all the narrative together
Is your writing tracing theories & creating underlying patterns.
Independant engagement with material.
Critical & thoughtful idea & information - thoughtful!
Relates theory research to won experience.
Structured around logic & sees a bigger picture.
Ongoing preparation & reflection - Evidence of intellectual engagement with module.

How do I evidence deeper learning..
Everything you say has to be substantiated with evidence. You can't make a point without showing that that engagement has come from process of research, this is done through quotes.
Make an argument but back it up..
You need to make it concise & direct... No rhetorical or conversational writing styles.
This is a representation of a middle class family because of this....
Don't use uncertain language.
Aim for shorter sentences rather than longer sentences.
Avoid repeating the same word.
Avoid waffle.

Make a point
Back it up
Make a point
Link it up
Back it up.

Avoid contractions & abbrevations
Avoid vague terms.

It has been observed in this....
Considerations has been given to...
The suggestion here is that...

Introduction
Summaries the question & how the main body is going to work.

Main body gets more defined throughout chapters.

Conclusion will echo the introduction.

After conclusion doesn't count but everything else does.

Thermal bound
1.5 line spaced apart from quotes more than two lines.

Use long quotes to evidence close reading, communication skills.

7 weeks away!
15th jan 2014 4pm

But also short to summarise point from different writers.

AVOID NEGATIVITY

Project Self Assessment
Give a brief summary so far...
Write down the major aims of the project
Comment on time management
Do you know what your final project will look like?
What steps you going to take?
What areas of project you worried about?
How are you best going to use them..
Set targets!
Don't priorities practical or written element.


Practical signed in with administrator with dissertation to hand-in two copies of dissertation & electronic version on e-studio on dropbox...

Left hand margin 2.5cm to be bound.
Title template on estudio... 

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£6.00 per book before Monday 12th Jan, 24hrs to bound minimum.

In text: 
(Miles, 2013, p.7) 

Don't use speech marks for quotes. Use '   '
Havard Referencing Generator

Biblography seperated into sources
Websites
Books
Journals
Visits

Harvard Referencing
Author Date Title for images as well as source.

Author, Date, Title, in Author Date, Title.

In Text 
In Author, Date year (Author, Date, Page) a scene....

Documentary/Film
Name of the film... 

Conclusion
 
I this essay I have attempted to highlight the simultaneous neccesoty & limitations of a variety of academic conventions that institutionally frame.