Graduate Research Project

This is the page for the Graduate Research Seminar 2016-2017 run by Kate Briggs and Steve Rushton.

The outcome of the seminar is a Graduate Proposal (1500 words) and Writing Component (8000 words).

The seminar will comprise individual tuition with your writing tutor and occasional group sessions on specific methods (including peer to peer commentary, editing and proofing)

This page will be used to upload information on your Project Proposal and Writing Component (AKA, thesis)

PROJECT PROPOSAL

Here is the link to the

Graduate proposal guidelines (a form to get you started)

and to your texts on method from year one (this is also a useful starting point for the proposal)

Course Handbook (proposal guidelines, which give more detail)

and the

WRITING COMPONENT

Writing Component guidelines

Thesis writing: classic methods

KEY DATES

Here are the key dates for the Writing Component, please print this page out and keep it to hand.

29-09-16: Studio visits Steve & Kate

6-10-16: Grad proposal workshop

13-10-16: Feedback on grad proposal from Kate & Steve

28-10-16: Finding a form with Kate Briggs

11-11-16: Deadline, Writing Component, first 2000 words

16-12-16: Deadline, Writing Component, first 4000 words

27-01-17: Deadline, Writing Component, first full draft 8000 words

13&14-02-17 writing event (TBC)

16-02-17: Editing Party with Kate Briggs.

23-03-17: Proof Reading Party with Kate Briggs.

03-04-17: DEADLINE FINAL WRITING COMPONENT

Writing component supervision 2016-17

with Kate Briggs and Steve Rushton

How the process will work:

1. October 6. Graduate Project Proposal workshop: drafting it in a day.

2. October 13 and 14. Kate and Steve will give feedback on your draft proposals in the form of a tutorial and help you to make a plan of action for your writing projects, working towards the first deadline.

3. October 24, submit your finished Graduate Project Proposal to the PZ office.

4. October 28. 10am-1pm Finding a form: a workshop on writing and form (and writing toward the volume of 8,000 words) for everyone.

5. Following the Graduate Proposal Seminar on November 2 and 3, the supervision of the writing component will get underway.

This will comprise of a one-hour tutorial with your writing tutor once in November, once in December and then at a rhythm of once every two weeks until the final deadline in April. There will also be a group session at the end of each tutorial day. This is a flexible time which we can decide how to use depending on your needs and interests: we could use it for the purposes of a reading group, circulating and reading each other’s texts, working on our bibliographies, working on the unit of the paragraph, the line break etc. We’re of course open to all suggestions. On a tutorial day, the shape of it will look like this:

10 am – 4pm: hour-long tutorials with supervisees (with a break for lunch)

4pm – 6pm: group session

We hope that to have an allocated “writing day” once a fortnight will encourage you put dedicated time aside for your writing projects, while at the same time ensuring that it is kept in proportion to the time you give to your studio work.

Please note that participation in the group sessions is optional: some sessions may feel more useful than others. But we see it as a regular moment to share and discuss issues in relation to writing and your research.