Research
- discover new information
- interpret information
- develop your understanding
- wide range of matters relating to creative practise in specialist field
- begin to look at info, images, surround with theories
- research that may not fit but might be relevant later
- parameters - particular time period, specific genre - more defined as progress - might be fuzzy now and make sense later
- divergent research - about advancement of knowledge
- exploratory - researcher's curioisity
- without practicial defined subject end
- awareness of contexts and range of ideas out there
- convergent research/ applied - interest in looking at a specific subject
- generate keywords - specific to area know what to develop research on - use to search with
- Primary research - collection of original research/ data e.g - paintings, furniture, films , clothing, buildings, etc - seen at first hand
- museums a greta place for this - helps to know your subject by experience of first hand
- interviews, questionaires, surveys - only if 50+ for questionaire
- mentioned in appendix and reffered to
- first hand visual research - direct observation make a lsit of questions on subject
- arrive at main question through lots of sub-questions that eventually lead to it
Interviews
- structured with questions
- ground - work - prepare
- avoid leading questions and excessive guidance
- know about subjects you wan't to talk to
Questionnaires
- fixed - don't change question
- explain purpose for best response
- simple questions and keep short
- anonymity
- considered age range, gender, etc to compare evidence
- tick boxes
- can be 2 - 3 questions long
- application of question to range of examples
- set question/ task for self
- define area
- range of examples - quantative
- draw upon the details
- compare and analyses other examples within genre
Theory to analyse Primary
- explain author's text
- then introduce premise
- examples on My Uca
Internet
- Internet - Published source - credited by ...
- one person's view
- can use wikipedia as starting point for summary information but don't reference from it
- should not use - social networks, non crediablitable sites, comments, reviews from interntional databases
- online resources and ebrary are useful - use them
- academic research - reading guide
- intro - overview
- conclusion - what author found out
- contents page - target specific chapters and themes
- bibliography - research sources
Presentations
- 3 - 5 mins to present research and ideas to get feedback from staff and students
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