Independent Independent StudyStudy

Workshop Workshop Reflecting into the futureReflecting into the future

Level 3 Independent Study 2Neil Carey & Clive McGoun

Workshop overviewWorkshop overview

Hands onHands on Opportunity for informal discussionOpportunity for informal discussion Review of past processReview of past process Looking to the written future!Looking to the written future! Examining the written past:Examining the written past:

Product Product ProcessProcess

Lessons to be learned?Lessons to be learned?

Level 3 Independent Study 3Neil Carey & Clive McGoun

Independent study: work Independent study: work so farso far

Orientation workshops – end of level IIOrientation workshops – end of level II Reading and/or cogitation during Reading and/or cogitation during

SummerSummer Level III induction and setting upLevel III induction and setting up Finding a supervisorFinding a supervisor Writing your proposalWriting your proposal

What is the process?What is the process? How do you feel about the product?How do you feel about the product?

Level 3 Independent Study 4Neil Carey & Clive McGoun

Independent Study: next Independent Study: next stepssteps

Research and Writing!Research and Writing! Writing/ResearchWriting/Research Timely writingTimely writing Future Writing – learning from the Future Writing – learning from the

pastpast Product of writingProduct of writing Process of writingProcess of writing

Level 3 Independent Study 5Neil Carey & Clive McGoun

Product of writingProduct of writing Choose Choose oneone from the pack. from the pack. What instant feelings associated with work?What instant feelings associated with work? Read in detailRead in detail Assessment framework: Be your own Assessment framework: Be your own

assessor! assessor! Proof reading?Proof reading? Citations and Referencing?Citations and Referencing? Layout and presentation?Layout and presentation? Arguments/thesis (structure and clarity)?Arguments/thesis (structure and clarity)? Understand why you got this grade?Understand why you got this grade? What would you ask/say to the unit tutor now?What would you ask/say to the unit tutor now?

Share with other people?Share with other people?

Level 3 Independent Study 6Neil Carey & Clive McGoun

Process of writingProcess of writing

Choose Choose twotwo: excellent and ‘in need of : excellent and ‘in need of development’development’

Remember how you wrote these?Remember how you wrote these? What process?What process?

Written plans in advance?Written plans in advance? Draft and redraft? (how many?)Draft and redraft? (how many?) Last minute?Last minute? Critical reader?Critical reader? Directly in word processor (or ‘typed up’?)Directly in word processor (or ‘typed up’?)

Share with other people?Share with other people?

Level 3 Independent Study 7Neil Carey & Clive McGoun

Past writing: lessons for the Past writing: lessons for the futurefuture

What to learn for future writing?What to learn for future writing? Writing process:Writing process:

What works? What doesn’t?What works? What doesn’t? Writing product:Writing product:

Proof read? Citation & Referencing?Proof read? Citation & Referencing? Structure. Argument. ClarityStructure. Argument. Clarity

Using reflections for writing Using reflections for writing dissertationdissertation

Level 3 Independent Study 8Neil Carey & Clive McGoun

Timely writingTimely writing

Start now! Writing ‘jobs’Start now! Writing ‘jobs’ Research diary/blog?Research diary/blog? Systematic notes from literature: Systematic notes from literature:

reviews and summaries, reactionsreviews and summaries, reactions Explorations on method/ologyExplorations on method/ology Structure of report: a moveable Structure of report: a moveable

forecastforecast Never too earlyNever too early