Methods lens-based

Intro:

The Reading, Writing, and Research Methodologies Seminar is tailored towards (further) developing research methods within the first year of this master. By establishing a solid foundation of research skills, it will eventually prepare students for their Graduate research in the second year. Through reading core theoretical texts, they will establish a common vocabulary and set of references to work from. They will learn the practice of classic ‘essayistic methodologies’, including close reading, annotation, description and notation, students learn to survey a body of literature, filter what is relevant to their research and create comparative pieces of analysis. The seminar helps students to establish methodical drafting processes for their texts, where they can develop ideas further and structure their use of notes and references. The course takes as axiomatic that the perceived division between ‘practice’ and ‘theory’ is essentially an illusion.

Curriculum: The seminar will involve:

(a.) Identifying the object of your research: description and analysis of your work

(b.) Contextualizing your work through description and reflection on contemporary and historical practices.

(c.) Identify research material key to your practice.

(d.) Synopsis and annotation of key texts

(e.) Writing machines: creating methods for group and individual writing.

Throughout, there will be an emphasis on working collectively, whether in a larger discussion group or in smaller reading and writing groups.

Editing Reading, Writing & Research Methodologies - handbook information

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Outcome of the seminar (trimester three)

The specific outcome for the RW&RM seminar of 2015-16 will be a 1500 word text which reflects on your own method and situates your work in relation to a broader artistic and cultural context. The various texts produced within the RW&RM seminar will serve as source material for your text on method. In common with all modules on the course RW&RM serves to support your self-directed research. Therefore, the text on method will inform your Self-Evaluation at the end of the third trimester and provide the basis for your Graduate Project Proposal that you will produce in the fourth trimester.

Please make "methods page" from your "student page"

• RYAN
• Fabian
• P A U L A
• Q I A N
• Anna
• SIGRUN
• Irma
• Catalina

12 Oct

Lesson Plan

So far you have:

(1) made a brief description (what, how and why?) of a project you worked on

and

(2) made notes on a lecture by Vilém Flusser and/ or Marshall McLuhan

If you have not done so, please make a link from the methods page to those texts.

Like this:

https://pzwiki.wdka.nl/mediadesign/User:Francg/expub/media-wiriting

or this

https://pzwiki.wdka.nl/mediadesign/User:Eastwood

(3) For Wednesday's session: Bring along a text you are reading or want to read in the near future.

Please choose a* text* that has a relation to the work you are doing on the course.

For instance, a text that may have been referred to in Florian's seminar; a text you have discussed in tutorials; or a text you have encountered in your self-directed research.

In this session we will devote time to making a synopsis of the text and ask how we unpick and follow productive research strands.

• This can be a text or other piece of media (online lecture, film or video).*

The key thing is that the text is important to you and relates to your own interests.

28-Sept

Organizing my texts on the wiki

Here is an example of good practice:

https://pzwiki.wdka.nl/mediadesign/User:Laurier_Rochon

Main session:

Theme: Structuralism, orality and literacy

Task: Identify the thesis in a given text, making notes

Steve will read or show a series of texts.

Your task is to identify and articulate the argument at the heart of the text.

Upload texts here:

catalina

Links:

Flusser

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lyfOcAAcoH8

McLuhan

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ImaH51F4HBw

First Session:Today's Task

300 word description of your work

100 words = what?

100=How?

100= why?

http://piratepad.net/Sz6I826p6h

last years trail