Standardisation and academic conventiona are put in place to create academic honesty and making the piece more about the arguments and ideas than the way you have presented them. They help you show your source origins to create a theoretical backbone to you arguments.
- you must demnstrate a critical knowledge of your practice
- apply heory to practice
- Analyse relevant material
- Evaluate theory and evidence within the cntext of study
- Reflect - critiquing and critically reflecting on your learning and using this to improve practice.
most importance is this praxis between what you are thinking about theoretically and the literary understanding you are ostering through your research , and your actual practice as a growing professional graphic designer.
Intro:
the plan for the chapters of your disseration and the arguents you will be making along with the key texs that will back up your arguments. Do not stifle your original authorial voice but be aware of the need for objectivity. There are ways in which to challenge academic practices but you must understand the rules to do so in a well informed and reasonable way that fits with your content and arguments. Map out the logic of your argument and hw it flows. Each chapter should ave a little intro and conclusion on the specific points you are making in it.
go beyond the factual, be self reflective and avoid:
-concentration on learning outcmes
- passive acceptance of ideas
- routine memorisation of facts
- see only small parts of the big picture
- ignore guiding patterns and principles
- lack of reflection about, or underlying patterns and theories
- little undestanding
- engagement with your research
Try too be:
- independent engament with material
- critical and thoughtful about idea and information
- relate to own experience and knowledge
- see the big picture
- evidence relates to conclusions
- examines the logoc of arguments
- interested in wider reading and thinking
- read against the grain of a theorist and really examine a cornerstone to your essay before you agree with it.
Ue the language that is specific to your practice and discipline area. Certain words are just better at cmmunicating in a more concise and deep contextualised way. Explicitly analyse the origin of your informtion and what this means for its veracity.
Be concise and get straight to the point, avoid uncertain language becaus eit is unecessary and you should be confident about your points. Avoid repeating words too much. Do not use fist person unless you have explicit reasons to do so. just be self reflective in your use of an objective tone and exxamine how objective your points actually are.
general plan:
Prelims- title page, Acknowledgements, Contents, list of illustrations.
Introduction- the abstract, statements of the problem, methodological approach
main body- review the literature, logically developed argument, chapters, results of investigations, case study.
conclusion- discussion and conclusion, summary of conslusions
Extras - Bibliograpgy, appedicies check the order in which you sub devide your types of sources as well as alphebatised
what were you trying to do with this project?
a brief summary of how far you have gotten towards that aiim
comment on your time management
do you know what your final project will look like (any support material, and record of process)
how can you make this happen
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