COP Lecture Notes - Resolving Your Research Project

Introduction - telling people what au re going to do before actually doing it. 
Think about playing with structures and conventions. 
What do I have to do for submission?

Demonstrate 
- Critical knowledge of practice
- Theory to practice
- Analysis of relevant material
- Evaluation theory and evidence 
- Reflection - critiquing and critically reflecting on learning. 

TRY to write about my practical work in my dissertation to clearly show synthesis. 

Deep and surface learning 

Surface approach
- Concentrating on ILOs
- Passive acceptance of ideas and not thinking about them critically
- Memorisation of facts without considering wider context
- Small chunks of information not tied together
- Ignoring guiding patterns and principles
- Lack of reflection
- Not recognising underlying patterns

Deep approach
- Independent engagement 
- My opinion that has been reached by consideration of others' opinions. 
- Big picture
- Ongoing preparation and reflection
- Draw conclusions from evidence and not just from opinion

How to evidence deep learning
- Blog!
- The way that I write
- Specialist jargon and terms 
- Analytic sentences

NO ROOM FOR WAFFLE. 
Avoid using the same word over and over because its shows a limited vocabulary. 
Don't use abbreviations. 
No slang. 
Avoid conversational and vague terms. 
Avoid first person. 
Scholarly, not conversational. 

The suggestion here is that...
Consideration has been given to...
It has been observed that...

Preliminaries -> Intro -> Main Body -> Conclusion -> Extras
Only the three middle sections count towards the word limit. 

FIND ILLUSTRATIONS TO INCLUDE. 
FORMAT MY DISSERTATION CORRECTLY WHILE I AM STILL WORKING ON IT. 
(12pt type, 1.5 line spacing, suitable font choice, quotes longer than two lines should be separated from main text and indented, include page numbers)

What am I achieving? Have I got as far as I wanted to? Why am I stuck? 
BE POSITIVE. 

Estudio - specification for submission, harvard referencing guide. Also consider 'Cite This For Me' and 'RefMe'
Harvard referencing needs to be consistent throughout. 
n.p.) - no pages
pp. 3-7) - estimating the page range when there are no numbers given
para.2) - paragraphs rather than pages (for online documents)