REFLECTIONS AGAINST LEARNING OUTCOMES

Nicola South Student number: 51456  PH6CTS-5

LO1 undertaken research and study demonstrating comprehensive knowledge of your area of specialisation and built a theoretical framework for your creative practice.

Q: Have I researched and studied my specialisation and demonstrated a comprehensive knowledge?

I have evidenced as before a wide and deep range of reading in my dissertation draft, which I added to following tutor feedback from assignment 4.

Q: Have I built a theoretical framework for my creative practice?

I have advanced from the literature review and subsequent assignments to interrogating and interrelating academic arguments and evidencing and presenting them, and as advised by my tutor not forming any new arguments. This I have put into practical use in my creative work but I have also used in a practical way in my dissertation so that the theories I have presented are better articulated for my readers.

LO2 synthesised and articulated your critical, contextual and conceptual knowledge and understanding into a coherent critique of advanced academic standard.

Q: Have I pulled together research and written using evidence?

This is evidenced in my dissertation draft, having applied tutor feedback from assignment 4. Generally throughout I have:

• improved the flow of the narrative
• decreased the density
• checked it is accessible to a general reader
• PEEL (Pain, Evidence, Explain, Link), and reverse engineered to use quotes to support my points, not the other way around.
• Added descript on denotation in images

Q: Have I referred to my BOW contextualising practise and theory?

I haven’t directly referred as I don’t believe this is necessary, however my BOW practice directly relates to my essay topic, stimulates my CS research and broadens my understanding. Should I?

Q: Have I evidenced in writing my concept thoroughly and how broader concepts have fed into this? Broad concept run throughout these chapters.

I have reviewed my work as a whole to ensure that these concepts are consistently referred to throughout the work. It is to the required academic standard.

LO3 applied your own criteria of judgement, reviewed, criticised and taken responsibility for your own work with minimum guidance.

Q: Have I reviewed, judged, and critiqued myself?

I have reflected throughout as I have worked and have done so here also.

LO4 selected and applied information management skills and used appropriate technology in the production of an accomplished critique with minimal supervision.

Q: Have I used information management skills and technology?

I have used some online sources and referencing mechanisms as well as reference data bases such as paperpile. I have used a variety of IT skills to present my work.

Q: Have I produced a good critique myself? 

I have been supported by suggestions from my tutor, but I have adopted these with increasing effect to the point now where I use them independently. For instance in my comments against LO 1 above on forming a theoretical framework for my creative practice, and in LO 2 where I note the writing techniques that I have adopted in my writing.

Reference:

Alexander, J. (2013) Contextual Studies. Barnsley: Open College of the Arts.