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The specific outcome for the RW&RM seminar of 2019-20 will be a 1500 word text which reflects on your own practice 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 practice. In common with all modules on the course RW&RM serves to support your self-directed research. Therefore, the text on practice 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. Therefore, the text on practice 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. | The specific outcome for the RW&RM seminar of 2019-20 will be a 1500 word text which reflects on your own practice 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 practice. In common with all modules on the course RW&RM serves to support your self-directed research. Therefore, the text on practice 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. Therefore, the text on practice 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. | ||
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Revision as of 08:02, 9 September 2019
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
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
Outcome of the seminar (trimester three)
The specific outcome for the RW&RM seminar of 2019-20 will be a 1500 word text which reflects on your own practice 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 practice. In common with all modules on the course RW&RM serves to support your self-directed research. Therefore, the text on practice 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. Therefore, the text on practice 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.
Session One
Each session of RW&RM seminar has a practical outcome
The aim is to help with your research for the Special Issue.
Today’s session will have two outcomes
1) A 300 word description of your past work
2) A synopsis and abstract of a text you are reading in relation to the Special Issue.
TODAY'S SESSION
1) MORNING: conduct a warm-up exercise in which you will write and co-edit a series of texts together.
You will publish these on the wiki at 14:00.
2) AFTERNOON: In the afternoon session we will ask: what would the entreprecariat reader look like?
How can you navigate, share and consolidate the knowledge you are gaining for Special Issue 7?
We will discuss and experiment with the methods of synopsis, annotation and abstraction which allow for easy orientation and articulation of a corpus of texts. We will begin designing a method in the weeks we will work on Special Issue 7
AGENDA:
11:00- 11:30 Discuss with Steve how the Special Issue is developing. The aim is to incorporate the research you are doing with the special issue with that of the methods class
11:30- 14:00
A description of past work
300 word description of your work
100 words = what?
100=How?
100= why?
a) 11:30-12:30: write texts
b) 12:30- 13:30: in groups of three. Writer, remain SILENT whilst the two readers give feedback on their text, make notes on the changes they suggest.
c) 13:30: edit your text
d) 14:15 upload text
Upload here:
AFTERNOON SESSION
15:15- 17:30
What would the entreprecariat reader look like?
Steve's intro
Gather key texts (recommendations in relation to the special issue + other texts)
Allocate readers-writers to particular texts
Make synopsis (300 - 500 words)
Ask what is the argument (thesis)?
What is the conclusion?
What is your opinion?
Make abstract (150 words max)
OUTCOME: by the end of the day we will have synopsis of eight texts relating to the subject of the special issue
17:30 Upload, review and recap today's outcomes; discuss aims for next session. Next stage (after this session) put texts discussed together along with the abstracts and synopses into a provisional reader – it grows (like the Whole Earth Catalogue) as you add texts, as the project. Discuss forms this can take and workflow which takes reading, annotation and synopsis and abstract making as a collective research practice which feeds into Special Issue (Wiki? Pad?,Rasberry Pi?)
Session two : WE MAKE A READER!
Motivational messages pad (from Andre's class):
https://pad.xpub.nl/p/motivational-banners
Pad from meeting on 06 October:
https://pad.xpub.nl/p/Life_Hacks_06_10_18
Upload your text on:
https://pad.xpub.nl/p/RW&RM_26_9_18
https://pad.xpub.nl/p/10.10.2018
Follow the format of
Writer —
Title
Publisher and date –
Abstract
Synopsis
The Entreprecariat Reader, edition one
1) hard copy versions
2) printable version (pdf)
3) website
12-13:00 compile texts
13:00-14:00 discuss possible outcomes- make decision before lunch
15:00 -17:00 make your reader (in two groups – two versions?)
17:00 discuss ways forward
PRINT DRAFT VERSION
NEXT SESSION EDITING THE READER