COP3: Organising Your Research

Deadline: Thursday 12th January (2-4pm)

Reflection > Theory > Action : Praxis

Learning Outcomes of this module:
Project Management
Self Motivation
Organisation

400 Hours of study: 

6-9000 word dissertation

Related practical work

w/ 2.5 hours of support

Aim to have a substantial draft by christmas

Methodologies and Critical analysis
Resolving your research project 
Keeping to academic conventions

Planning The Project

- Write Down all the questions that you want to investigate

- Consider each on their merits and focus on 2

- write an A4 first thoughts sheet for each

- What is the purpose of the study?

- Is your question researchable?

- Working Title - Should provide an answerable question

- Make notes of key questions that your research raises as you go along

- Title should be no more than 15-20 words

Project Outline

- Stick question on the wall/somewhere you will always see it (remind yourself, is what i'm doing relevant?)

- Think about your working title and the different components that need researching

- Aim to have title and project outline for first tutorial

Literature Search

- Sampling - Who gets mentioned over and over again?

- 100 hours of reading/research 

- www.jstor.org < USE IT

- Structure dissertation into chapters. Complimentery but with different focuses/different theoretical or methodical approaches.

Tasks

1. Write down all q's that you want to investigate
2. Write A4 first thoughts sheet for each
3. Working title
4. Project Outline