Graduate Research Seminar 2013/2014

12-2-2014

A Guide to Essay Writing

Thesis Guidelines

Seminar agenda:

Note: the emphasis on this seminar is to build on the skills you used last year, taking notes of key texts, describing your work, contextualizing your practice in relation to other work and to relevant texts. The thesis is an extension of those practices and as we discussed last time, you have already developed a resource of texts (including your essay on method and your project proposal) that provide you with material that can be built upon for the thesis. BY THIS STAGE IN THE COURSE you should have (at the very minimum) a thesis abstract. This describes in a few lines what your thesis is about;

a thesis outline (broken down to chapters with a word count for each chapter);

a core bibliography (comprising five key texts at the most);

a collection of annotations of relevant texts; texts about your own work and practice.

these should be gathered together with a link from this page

it has been three weeks since our last meeting and I expect to see significant progress

Agenda for seminar:

I will be seeing you in small groups. This gives you the perfect opportunity to use the day to work exclusively on your thesis throughout the day.

AGENDA:

10:30 we meet and quickly review progress – assess whether you have met or surpassed the aims you set for yourself last time (see below).

Steve will meet with the following groups at the these times

11:00-12:30

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Lasse

Nicole Hametner

13:00-14:30

Marlon Harder

Menno Harder

Niek Hilkmann

14:30-16:00

Yoana Buzova

Nan Wang

Michaela Lakova

16:00- 16:30

wrap up

YOUR THESIS DRAFTS AND NOTES. UPDATE HERE. :
Michaela---> clarify my position and formulate better the questions I want to address.
upcoming: work on the abstract/ intro/ Bibliography
Niek
Menno Annotate several key texts about psychogeography
Yoana TO DO ---> write annotations of the texts that contextualise my project, make the skeleton of my thesis
Roel -> sketch out the development telecommunications -> telegraph and telephone
Nicole ---> sort mindmap/ formulate keyquestion, abstract and intro/ think about structure (praxis//theory)
Marlon > write more: revisit texts on methodology and previous work. write about current. turn keywords/map into sentences.
Nan--Matching the theories to my works and experiments and compare it.
LARS ~~ Work on 'skeleton' for the thesis: a guide of arguments/theory/examples which will make up the framework for the writing.

22-1-14

1: THE MOST USEFUL RESOURCE YOU HAVE IS THE WORK YOU HAVE DONE SO FAR, your notes and essays you wrote last year, the essay on method you did at the end of the third trimester, the various drafts for your proposal and the proposal itself, provide you with a starting point for your thesis. The thesis needs to be a reflection of your practice so it will emerge from the written work you have done already. Therefore, for this seminar please come prepared and gather together all the written work you did last year. Also bring along the research material you have been using, books, articles, pdfs &c. If you have a large bibliography bring along the texts / books you consider most importent.

2: The seminar will be a full day every two weeks.

3: It begins at 10:00 so please be punctual and send apologies if you cannot make it.

4: Each session will begin with each of you giving a progress report and we will commit to achievable aims to be met on that day (for example: to read and take notes on a particular text; or to write an abstract or outline &c.).

5: We will review progress at the end of the session, and again, set realistic goals for work to be undertaken in the meantime.

6: The seminar will comprise individual work, group work and tutorials with me.

Thesis guideline (example)

name

title

abstract = 250 words

intro = 500 words

[existing material: proposal and essay on practice, notes from methods class - texts that relate to your work]

chapter 1

Project description and aims = 250 words

[existing material: proposal and essay on practice]

Past work and contextualisation = 1000 [existing material: 'what, how and why' texts; notes from methods class - texts that relate to your work.]

chapter 2

Continuation of past work and contextualisation: 1000 [existing material: 'what, how and why' texts; notes from methods class - texts that relate to your work.]

chapter 3:

genesis of current project = 1000 [existing material: proposal and essay on practice]

chapter 4

current project and contextualisation = 2000 [existing material: proposal and notes for proposal]

chapter 5

exhibition = 1000 words

Conclusion = 500 words

Word count 7500 words

see also

30-11-13

FINAL VERSION OF PROJECT PROPOSAL HERE

27-20-11-12

Earlier Drafts

Niek Hilkmann, Marlon Harder, Nicole Hametner, Michaela, Nan, yoana, LASSE, Menno, Roel

18-9-13

proposal draft guide

1) Very rough draft: See guidelines - use your own texts from last year! The essay on method in particular.

2) Identify research material & research strands (use your own texts from last year! The essay on method in particular. Texts by others, films, artworks, artists &c)

Project Proposal Outline

Three stages to proposal

Very rough drafts here please:

25-9-13

Niek Hilkmann, Marlon Harder, Nicole Hametner, Michaela, Nan, yoana, LASSE, Menno,

Upload latest version of very rough draft proposal above

next week:

bring your 3 key texts

bring a work that you find inspiring (art work, video, wbsite)

worklog = what are you working on today?

2-10-13

Steve will lead the following groups at the following times

14:00- 15:30

Marlon Harder

Yoana Buzova

Nicole Hametner

15:30 - 17:00

Nan Wang

Niek Hilkmann

Menno Harder

8-10-13 :

Group with Steve

14:00- 15:30: Mathijs, Roel, Lasse & Michaela

15:30 - 17:00 review of all drafts