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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 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:

WhatHowWhy26-9-18

AFTERNOON SESSION

15:15- 17:30

Pad 26.09.18

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

Steve Suggests 26-9-18

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?)