Reflecting Into The Future
- 1. Independent Study Workshop Reflecting into the future
- 2. Workshop overview Hands on Opportunity for informal discussion Review of past process Looking to the written future! Examining the written past: Product Process Lessons to be learned?
- 3. Independent study: work so far Orientation workshops – end of level II Reading and/or cogitation during Summer Level III induction and setting up Finding a supervisor Writing your proposal What is the process? How do you feel about the product?
- 4. Independent Study: next steps Research and Writing! Writing/Research Timely writing Future Writing – learning from the past Product of writing Process of writing
- 5. Product of writing Choose one from the pack. What instant feelings associated with work? Read in detail Assessment framework: Be your own assessor! Proof reading? Citations and Referencing? Layout and presentation? Arguments/thesis (structure and clarity)? Understand why you got this grade? What would you ask/say to the unit tutor now? Share with other people?
- 6. Process of writing Choose two : excellent and ‘in need of development’ Remember how you wrote these? What process? Written plans in advance? Draft and redraft? (how many?) Last minute? Critical reader? Directly in word processor (or ‘typed up’?) Share with other people?
- 7. Past writing: lessons for the future What to learn for future writing? Writing process: What works? What doesn’t? Writing product: Proof read? Citation & Referencing? Structure. Argument. Clarity Using reflections for writing dissertation
- 8. Timely writing Start now! Writing ‘jobs’ Research diary/blog? Systematic notes from literature: reviews and summaries, reactions Explorations on method/ology Structure of report: a moveable forecast Never too early