Methods xpub

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

https://xpub.pzimediadesign.nl/curriculum.html

Plagiarism

Simple Wiki Style Sheet:

Titles and works = italics

Essays = Title in Caps

Notation = Harvard System (writer, page number) = (Smith, 26)

URL = make link

Guide to Essay Writing

A Guide to Essay Writing

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.

Key texts that will inform this course

XPUB Reader

28-Sept

Organizing my texts on the wiki

Please link your 'student' page to this page and make page for your own RW&RM entries

Here is an example of good practice:

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

• Noémie Vidé
• Giuli₳
• E M I L Y
• Max
• ♥ Claudii
• Karina
• Franc

28-Sept

Main session:

Today's theme: orality and literacy

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

AKA what is it about?:

Steve will read or show a series of texts. Your task is to identify and articulate the argument at the heart of the text.

Links:

Flusser

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

McLuhan

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

14-Sept-Introducing Steve

http://www.roddickinson.net/pages/closedcircuit/project-video.php

http://www.roddickinson.net/pages/closedcircuit/project-text-theycame.php

http://www.roddickinson.net/pages/pre_reviews/SignalNoise-Bulletin.pdf

http://www.theshowroom.org/projects/signal-noise

I started working like this because of this:

http://bak.spc.org/everything/

the last example of collaborative, discursive approach to research is this series of videos I did with Thomson & Craighead

http://www.thomson-craighead.net/warfilm.html

Today's Task

300 word description of your work

100 words = what?

100=How?

100= why?

http://piratepad.net/Sz6I826p6h

last years trail