Graduate Seminar 2018-2019

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This is the page for the Graduate Research Seminar 2018-2019 run by Steve Rushton and Marloes de Valk.

The outcome of the seminar is

Trimester four: a Graduate Project Proposal (1500 words) and a

Trimester four and five: Thesis (8000 words).

The seminar will comprise individual tuition with Steve or Marloes and group sessions on specific methods (including peer to peer commentary, editing and proofing)

The days set aside for the seminar will be devoted to achieving specific outcomes which further the research and completion of the proposal and thesis.

This page will be used to upload information on your Project Proposal and Thesis and to serve as an ongoing record of research.

HOW THE SESSIONS ARE STRUCTURED

The Graduate Seminar 2018–2019 with Marloes & Steve

The sessions will be for all second year media students: Y2LB and XPub

The sessions will take place every other Thursday.

The sessions will be all day workshops.

For each session the students will set aims at the end of the day the results will published on the wiki and reviewed by the group. 

Achievable aims will be set ahead of the next session. 

Sessions will include group work, individual work and  individual tutorials with Marloes & Steve

Outcome: Project Proposal (trim 4)

Outcome: Thesis (trim 4 & 5)

PREPARATION FOR THE FIRST SESSION:

First session pdf

File:Session-1-slides.pdf

Be prepared to give an account of where you are at with your self-directed research and talk about what you want to achieve this year.

Think concretely about what you want to make, how you are going to make it and why you are going to make it.

Consider:

What possibilities are open to you? (It is understood that making a final project is a process and things will change as you work on it)

What material from the 'text on method' you wrote last trimester could be useful for the proposal?

What material have you written (descriptions of work , assignments for last year's methods class &c) which you can use?

Review the written feedback from tutors you got from the last assessment and have it available for reference during the first session

PROJECT PROPOSAL

Publish your draft here:

DRAFT PROPOSAL 13-918

Here is the link to the

Graduate proposal guidelines

Project proposals 2017-2018

KEY DATES PROJECT PROPOSAL

November 23 = Graduate Proposal Deadline:

THESIS

A Guide to Essay Writing

Handbook details- thesis and final project

Thesis Guidelines

Criteria for evaluation (Thesis)

KEY DATES THESIS

November 9 - Thesis outline (what form will it take?)

December 10 - Deadline First Chapter

February 16: Deadline First Draft Thesis

March 5: Joint2: Deadline Second Draft thesis (texts to 2nd readers)

Second Readers Guidelines

March 16: Deadlines Second readers' comments

April 5: DEADLINE THESIS

Session Two Oct 4

10:00 – 10:15    Intro: the plan for today and questions.
10:15 – 11.15    Review proposal draft in 2 groups, including the mini-prototype/gesture in the direction of your research.
11:15 – 13:15     Working on the hack-pact, sketch.

LUNCH 13:15-14:15

AFTER LUNCH WE WORK ON THESIS OUTLINE

14:15 – 15:15     Short intro on how to start writing an outline. Emphasis on using the outline as a flexible document, a work in progress that can help you find focus.
15:15 – 16:30     Write. Steve and Marloes are around to help out.
16:30 – 17:00    Meet up to discuss work load ahead of next meeting. Brief chat about Jstor / aaarg / Royal Library / …

Outcomes for next meeting 18 October:

   

1. Draft thesis outline
2. Continue the annotated bibliography by describing how the texts relate to your research (word limit of 200 words).
3.  Draft of proposal (15 October upload and Marloes and Steve give feed back ahead of the next session).
4.  “Hackpact” a sketch each day - write a few lines on each of these experiments. Upload on wiki.

Archive:

Graduate_Seminar_2017-2018