What are the requirements?
10 minute presentation of dissertation topic & references (10% of mark) - 29th October
6000 word dissertation 5600/6600 - deadline week before easter
10 Minute Presentation (Plan 7/8 minutes)
What’s known about your topic?
What have other researchers said?
How does your dissertation topic relate to your practise?
Outline your aims & objectives: What will you investigate?
Tell us why it’s important?
How will the information be gathered?
Designers, artists, practitioners you will reference
The professional networks & primary research you’ll develop (Research that hasn’t been done - do yourself)
Being a critical thinker means -
Developing a practical thinking skill?
Reflecting on your knowledge & assumptions
Questioning and scrutinising your area of interest
Having an ability to sort out good information from poor information. Being discerning
Not assuming everything you are sold is correct
Being a problem solver and problem poser
Steps to critical practise
First meeting make sure you have your question, aims & objectives, why is it important to be looking at this question, know your key texts.
Being a successful researcher
Where can I find this information?
University online resources
Library book stock and periodicals
Web sources (Be careful for rubbish, keep web sources to a minimum)
TV, radio, documentaries, interviews, conferences, artists, talks, exhibitions, archives, observations.
Planning your dissertation
Plan your overall structure (major themes/topics)
Organise the progression of your argument (sub topics)
Think about how chapters link
Structuring your thinking
Some professional illustrators find social media a threat
Why is it difficult for them to embrace this technology
Illustrators who use social media for promotion tend to be successful
So what can be done to help illustrators adopt new promotional technologies
Logic behind a way of a connected thinking process - might not work for everyones dissertation
The use of two or more methods of gathering information on an issue is called ‘triangulation’
Observational evidence of this thesis
Interviews with illustrators
Illustrators find new promotional technologies a threat
Authoritative articles which support this issue
Use a range of research sources
Read strategically and keep notes (Read chapters which are related to my question, don’t read whole book)
Create a logical argument
Use the support of family & friends
Opportunity to write about my passion
Proof I can do sustained research
Independently drive my own project
Practise for writing for future employment
Developing organisation skills
Assign time (focus on dissertation, write a timetable)
Find suitable study space
Reflect on & evaluate your progress
Draft and redraft dissertation
Contents, abstract, introduction, 3 or 4 chapters, conclusion & appendices
Formal academic structure
Use Harvard citing and references
Should include some illustrations, images - BE CREATIVE
Have a central thesis or point
Be connected to your practise
Be critical and reflective
Finding a dissertation topic
Think about your practice - Is there an aspect of your practice that you are particularly interested in knowing more about? If so, what questions might be raised from investigation.
Can I achieve my goals before the deadline?
Are there any costs involved and can I meet these?
Will I need to travel to access the research? Is this feasible? Can I get access?
Issues that professional researchers have not been able to resolve
A topic which is too broad
Something you know little about & not related to your subject knowledge
short piece of writing 150-200 word overview of your dissertation content and focus. (aims, what it explores, what is covers, conclusion)
Write for an intelligent reader who knows nothing of the subject
Summarise important elements of your argument
The field of study, engage your reader (Outline what is so important about the research you have done)
What you will aim to investigate, aims.
An outline of your main points
Why it matters. Your context
Your introduction should be written after your write your chapters and conclusion
3 or 4 1500-1700 words per chapter
Develop your argument in chapters
Don’t have to be the same length
Each should have an introduction and lead into next chapter, can be very descriptive (tell us what your going to be talking about & conclusion)
Like three closely linked essays that develop and argument an idea
Write your chapters first (Forget about introduction, think about content of dissertation)
A brief summary of your argument. Restate your aims
Key findings. A deduction base upon these
Your personal opinion. Where your research might go next
Statement about the limitations of the research
Reflection on your learning
Comment on the future of this topic
Do not take the work or ideas of others and pass them off as your own
Do not using writing services
Too descriptive more a report than a dissertation
Getting distracted, not sufficiently focused
Overuse and abuse of web sources
Incoherent and confused arguments
Not completing drafts by deadline
Poor attendance to tutorials
Poor spelling/grammar, no proof reading
Bad management, not filing/backing up
Surveys and questionnaries
Avoid conducting own questionnaires
Consider analysing published, professional data instead
Take a number of proposed research questions with you
Discuss whether your question is workable. Can it be improved?
Ask for some references about where to start your reading
Make notes on the advice giving to you
Keep in touch with your supervisor throughout the dissertation process
Does it make sense? Have you had your dissertation proof read?
Check grammar and spelling errors
Check supervisor’s previous comments
Check your personal errors
Upload to turnitin via Moodle by deadline
Receive an originality report
Allows for accurate assessment/feedback
You receive a digital reciept
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