Research Framing Practise Lecture 4 Notes

Lecture Week 5 Writing the Proforma and Synopsis

Recap

• Area of interest - Research and Map Area - Identify specific focus - Formulate specific question

When you have a Question

• identify chapters and focusses
• give each chapter a title that reflects focus

• Get to this point before filling in Proforma

Then 

• research for each chapter in order:
• get out useful sources and identify authors, etc
• use proforma to aid synopsis and dissertation
• crictial angle/ bias, place of publication, analyse possible use and where  - how you intend to use them and where in dissertation

Synopsis - 2000 words

• should help you write a dissertation
• summary
• literature, view points, areas of discussion and taster of the analysis
• try not to be vague

Intro - 200 words

• question to be explored
• chapter breakdown, what should be covering and why
• how they respond to question
• brief overview of what each chapter covers, theotrical view points

Chapters - each at 533 words approx

• start para with outlined specific areas of discussion analyse
• flavour discussion/ analyse - introduce quote and small analysis
• no lists

Past Mistakes

• shouldn't be to - do list - what you have done without actually doing it
• shouldn't be just each beginning chapter as if writing the dissertation

Conclusion - 200 words

• refinements to focus if light in synopsis
• areas of further focus and expansion per chapter but must explain what specifically and why

Layout

• Title Page
• Contents Page
• Proforma
• Introduction
• Chapter 1 - Title
• Chapter 2 - Title
• Chapter 3 - Title
• Conclusion
• Illustration List
• Bibliography
• Appendix