CS NOTES from hangouts and prep ass 23.3.22

WHERE I AM AT WITH MY BOW:

Intentions:

• to share the effect of the landscape on me.
• To communicate the harmony and mutual relationships in the ancient woodlands
• To express my feeling about community through the landscape of the ancient woodlands
• To represent something of myself in the landscape

CS ACTIONS:

1. Understand what is required in the lit review
2. Decide what the key points are that I want to review in the contextual literature (feedback notes) – a core premise or theme and a visual methodology to analyse.
3. Send Garry a summary of the key points I want to review in the contextual literature

USEFUL POINTS FROM CS STUDY SESSIONS:

29.7.21 L2 to 3:

How to Write Better Essays by Bryan Greetham

https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/ucreative-ebooks/detail.action?docID=296364

Critical Thinking Skills by Stella Cottrell

https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/ucreative-ebooks/detail.action?docID=6234915

https://libguides.uta.edu/researchprocess/articles

Critical lens section 2: Skillset Resource https://learn.oca.ac.uk/course/view.php?id=257#section-2

Good Writing Practice  and Research Methods resource

29.11.21 L3

• Research helps you to work out where your works fits into the photographic world
• Talk about your ideas, challenges, methodology (approach) We articulate better visually when we articulate in writing and vice versa, the two aid each other. Articulation is needed to open the next door.
• Consider-redefine-reconsider-redefine
• Diary key words and how one leads to another
• Document your journey done prep, do journey, then reflect
• Pinpoint academic areas that I need help with and vocalise on forums

31.1.22 L3

In the Lit review and dissertation proposal, what is the normal number of photographers to use?

Ariadne: Less is more, with analysis, we are not here to provide lists but contextual analysis, ask how many do you need to contextualise your work? Think why are they there, and why have you chosen them, use 4-5 maximum. The Lit review should be a clear, in-depth review of my literature, to contextualise my thoughts; you will read more than you’ll summarise in your lit review. The lit review should be the backbone of my contextual framework, texts that my argument can’t do without, interrelationship, extrapolation – be brutal to get depth.

• No problem with moving away from your Lit review with your works, it shows development, but explain why you moved away from it.
• Don’t assume your narrative is evident in the evidence you share.

28.2.22 L3

Consider why what I’m working on/researching fascinates me

Follow tracks before they grow cold

28.3.22

Discussions on literature reviews

• It’s an abstract concept which should not be rigid, it should allow you to change direction, it’s just a step in the research
• Though it might not seem immediately relevant it is about the journey rather than the output
• Treat it as a theoretical framework to return to
• It is relevant to everything we do including BOW – could theoretically do one for BOW
• Helps you to synthesis things that are relevant and not so relevant and to synthesis them
• Helps you to find and make links in your own work

Q to those who’ve finished it: How has the lit review developed in your dissertation drafts?

• It gives a structure
• Keeps you on track

Q: How can you work out what is relevant in your research?

• Tutor guidance – so I should seek this now
• Look at potential sources
• Abstracts, summaries, tables of contents, introductions

Best if the literature review has some uniformity:

• Relate the sources to each other
• Firstly, discuss them source by source but then connect them together to make a theoretical framework

25.4.22

Q: How to decide what to cut out from your work to meet a word count.

• Be concise- eradicate the imprecise
• Take out repetition
• Move some info to footnotes
• Be especially precise in introductions and conclusions, Only 5-6 sentences each. The first and the  last sentences are particularly important and should echo each other

Remember the literature review can morph, as long as you explain your reasoning. Later Q: so how would I rewrite? Completely? Or as a comment on?

My question: How do I stop researching and write my literature review?

A: The literature review is the framework to form my argument – to form the context. In order to avoid self plagurism need to reformulate later.

• Ask what do I really need for this?
• What would I need to include if explaining to someone else
• Keep to the essentials – it is important to analysis to the full potential
• Analyse the most important blocks I need – 4-5 sources only

My question: If the literature review is to form the theoretical framework for my argument do I only use theorists/philosophers?  Ie; not those who critique the work of my chosen photographers? A:

• Ask how important is their work to the topic?
• Do they argue about the photographers work or the central arguments?
• If semiology is important it would be daft not to include Barthes

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