Lecture 4- Academic conventions.

• I am going to be looking at ...
• Discovering that...
• In relation to...
• Ways in which we are expected to write 
• Own personal voice- not standardised 
• Importance of academic conventions- rejection of this 
• Institutional framework 
• Way of writing, tone, style, referencing 
• Referencing shows where argument and ideas are coming from 
• Evaluation and creating 
• Surface approach- grade hunting 
• Deep approach- independent and interested
  patterns in ideas 
• Broad range of thinking 
• Reflection and evaluation 
• Evidence deep learning- shown in structure 
• Use of jargon of subject easily and in context 
• Own opinions based and shown around evidence 
• Analyse references don;t just put in 
• Quickly show to reader- evidence, triangulation, ideas common to deep learning 
• Be precise 
• Make point, back up with evidence, critique, reflect 
• Be straight to point- confident
• Avoid using the same words 
• Rounded understanding of concepts
• Don't use conversational tone
• Avoid vague terms 
• Be technical 
• Support what you say to make points sound more important 
• Don't be worried about writing in first person but try to avoid it 
• Tense can be changed to third person- expectation 
• Explain chapters in intro in some detail- theorists going to be used- finish intro with conclusive sentence 
• Long quote- analysed in next sentence/section 
• Paraphrase 
• Smaller quotes woven in 
• Harvard referencing - estudio help 
• 'quote' (surname, year: page) lower-case 
• Writer inside book (writer in writer) 
• Bibliography should be alphabetised and in relevant sections 
• Pictures need to use same referencing 

Practical- Brief.

Second tutorial.

Change of direction (again).

After speaking to Simon he felt that my new change in direction was positive and much stronger than my previous proposal however he felt that it still maybe too broad especially with the limited time I have now to research. After much discussion I finally settled on the topic of typography and how the introduction of the computer has affected its design but not just focused in the 1980s. This means quite a bit more research to understand specifics of typography and its production methods but feel that there will be more sources available at ease and a practical will be much easier to work out from this. I am pleased that I have changed reflecting on it because the proposal before was very weak and now I am confident I will be able to sustain an in depth investigation with a good outcome in the end.

First tutorial.