art & academia

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[darkmacademia]

it turns out I have a lot more traveller's notebooks than I thought...

[ladyophelias-deactivated2016111]

NYC, May 2016

1. Hotel 2. Metropolitan Museum of Art 3. Morgan Library & Museum 4. Metropolitan Museum of Art (Manus X Machina exhibit, Dior 1949)

[whentherewerebicycles]

hello anon!! okay, this is going to be a very long post, so buckle up. standard caveat: since i don’t know the specifics of your topic or discipline or situation, some of this will hopefully be relevant and some of it might not, so just grab what works for you and leave the rest! and if you have more specific questions that this general overview doesn’t touch on, feel free to send those in.

it sounds like you have a few different questions here:

How do I find and articulate my research question?

How do I effectively take notes on my background reading in the early stages, when I’m not sure yet what my argument is going to be?

How do I organize a long research project/paper? How do I conceptualize something that has so many moving parts & happens to be a genre (a thesis) that I’ve never written before?

How do I write something that long? 

also I am not sure if by “diss” you mean a senior thesis, master’s thesis, or a doctoral dissertation, as I know US and non-US universities use different terminology! so I will kinda just respond to this as A Very Lengthy Research Paper.

my response here will focus mostly on that first question (how to find/articulate a research question), with some thoughts at the end about notetaking in the early stages of a big research project. I’m going to lay out a method I just used with my own students to help them articulate questions & generate possible lines of inquiry to follow. I have been calling it the ‘research tier’ activity/system but it’s a pretty basic way of mapping out possible directions for a project. I use some version of this for every big project I undertake - whether it’s academic work, planning a course syllabus, or writing fic.

I want to emphasize, before I start, that the “tier” map you construct is a LIVING document, not a set-in-stone plan that has to be finished before you begin. the goal is to get past the anxiety of the blank page by generating tons and tons of ideas and questions related to your central topic – so that if you hit a dead end, you can trace your way back and follow a different line of inquiry. when i am working on a research project, i am continually updating this planning document (i’ll say more about that at the end, once you have a sense of what the tiers look like).

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[linceestudies]

more research & more coffee ☕️

[butterflypeaflowertea]

everything really is about communication...

[butterflypeaflowertea]

this post is not about love or isolation or anything like that. this post is about how if you email your professors they will give you extensions on assignments, and if you do not email your professors they will not give you extensions on assignments. but it can be about those other things too

[en-theos]

What do you mean dark academia I only know cold academia. Turn up the thermostat in the library you sadists

[amandaswork]

APRIL 27 / 22

pages from the black and white journal... took me 7 months to finish :0

[amandaswork]

MAR 25 / 22

you don’t understand how happy I am that it’s Friday 😭😭😭

[ancientsstudies]

View of the Salon Carré at the Louvre by Alexandre Jean-Baptiste Brun.

[2weeksindecember]

yesterday

[unpretty]

i already had my busywork notebook paper printables up on my site but i figured i'd throw them up onto ko-fi as well, for anyone who'd rather buy them there

Busywork Knotwork Coloring Notebook Paper - Kitty Unpretty's Ko-fi Shop

Are you a busy person who could stand to look even busier? Or maybe you’re like me, and you find it helpful to keep your hands busy, even wh

[amandaswork]

NOV 20 / 21

Happy Saturday, I hope the weekend treats you all well! 🤙

[amandaswork]

DEC 16 / 21

What do you do during the winter break? I always feel like I’m not doing anything and it makes me restless lol

[museeofmoon]

𝑴𝒐𝒏𝒅𝒂𝒚,6𝒕𝒉 𝒅𝒆𝒄• had my first final today and it went better than expected! Iater on I did some journaling and made some art after so long and it really felt good. Even though I have finals going I still feel relatively calm and happy, thanks to my beloved knife gang, y'all are always so supportive and the vibes on the server are incredible! I'm so grateful I have you all<3

🎧: 𝑴𝒊𝒙𝒆𝒅 𝑼𝒑_𝑬𝑵𝑯𝒀𝑷𝑬𝑵

[eden-codes-and-spanish]

Day 12/100...

Today I'm starting the first project assigned at the end of the first course. I'm quite anxious because I feel like I don't know what I'm doing. All I can do is try my best and practice everyday but we'll see.

[amandaswork]

NOV 02 / 21

Things might be crazy right now, but at least my bullet journal is lookin cute 🥰

[cottagesongs]