-you cannot research effectively without deeply analysing this resaerch and it is impossible to analyse withut the context provided by research.
A methodology is a way of approaching something,including your research plan. So document your planning and why you have chosen to do something in a certain way.
Find a specific stratergy for communicating and evidencing that you have made an effort to create a methodological approach.
-a plan to maximise the results of our research is required.
-Be logocal and systematc in your organisation of your research.
-Reflect on your choices of methodologies and make sure it is the most relivant to yu subject area and research area. (i.e. for my dissertation interviews might be the most apt stratergy because of its focus on social proximity and the people involved in the stages of design)
Research methodologies seperately to the actual research that you do for the content of your dissertation
Palgrave methodoligies section.
-What research methods are you going to use
-quantative and qualitative and why have you made this destinction?
- what do you think your methods will enable you to discover?
- What might prevent you from discovering?
- What kinds of research methods would be the best suited to the kind of research you are undertaking and the research questions you are pursuing?
- What sort of problems do you envisage in setting up these methods?
-What are their benefits?
- What will you need to do to ensure they gather useful data?
chapters 13, 14 and 15 in the research handbook.
Make sure you have a cross section of your methodology that incluseds different formats of outcomes.
-why you have reda the books you have an why you have done the practical research you have done.
-have stratergies for sifting through information and finding wat is relivant.
A literature review is intialy part of every methodlogy, the key literature in a certain area. Why these are relivant to you and your research. Whyy a particular theory is appropriate (why your reading of Ruskin is relivant and taking his method for defining gothicness is applicable to your work in craft n contemporary graphic design) is it the best way? can it be done better?
plan and outline your mehodology now and at the beginning of your dissertation.
If you are looking through a particular theoretical lense point this out and analyse why you have done this. Outline why you want to find this thing out (your essay title) and what can e gained from it. If you have made adecision to not look at certain texts explain why and cite the reason for your focus on others.
Critical Analysis:
Choosing a methodological approach inherently involves a critical appraoch and thought process.
Critaclity I about seperating out the most valid answer from a selection of options. Use skepticism and look at every angle of a argument to test your pint of view in an analystical manner. Take a step backwards from your subject matter and try and be objective when arranging your points, survey a variety of different ideas. Simply consider other points of view and the validity of your sources.
Consider the contrasting view that were around at the time of the conception of the text and the full context of written pieces, how could this have effected the subjectivity of the text or its bias? Why do certain writers come up with certain answers or point of view?
Consider why you have chosen the topic you have and how the text you produce could be effected by this.
Triangulation is a necesity.
Once you ave the questin ask yourself:
-What do I want to say?
- Have I got the evidence to back this up?
-Do you need more evidence?
- Is there somewhere specific t look and find more evidence?
-Am I expressing myself clearly and lgically?
Keep things simple, refine what you want t say and fcus on a few key issues
look into your key issues in depth
develop your argument in a logical manner.
use a mixture of citation styles.
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