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Revision as of 12:51, 10 October 2016
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 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
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
Please make page for your own RW&RM entries on your "student" page
Here is an example of good practice:
https://pzwiki.wdka.nl/mediadesign/User:Laurier_Rochon
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
What is RW&RM?
Today's Task
300 word description of your work
100 words = what?
100=How?
100= why?