A post of two halves - direct and indirect

A post of two halves

Direct:

This first halve is a post about house keeping. First of all get a handle on citations (and the difference they have from footnotes). See previous blog, for an outline of what they should be like for this work: 

Citations

Second: a thought -  If you are sending something to someone via email imagine it on THEIR computer. They are not you.

Example One: sending work to your advisor: So putting ‘Critical Review’ on it makes sense on your computer because you have only done one but your adviser has many. The thing it is for your advisor is not a ‘Critical review’ it is a piece of work from you. SO PUT YOUR NAME ON IT and put your name on the work itself. 

Example Two: sending your CV to a producer. On your computer you may only have your CV so calling the file ‘CV’ helps you find it. But on the producers computer they may have 200 CV’s so what is important about it is that it is from YOU. Put your name on it.

I recommend your name_what it is_date or draft number.doc

=

AAkinleye_Introductiondraft_nov12.doc

When I look at work I send it back with

AA_ your name_ whatever you called it.doc

so you know that, that copy is the one I made comments on. Get it?

That all being said it’s going well, don’t be daunted.

Indirect:

This half is about being OK where you are:  This point in the term is the point when you may have entered the empty place before things come together. (You may not have!! And that’s really great!!) but I firmly believe that the growing process has to have a moment(s) of confusion in it because it is out of confusion that we start to see form. One form does not become another; there is a moment of no form and then re-formation. That is why I think courage and being brave are embedded in the universal experience of being.

Module ones: it is hard to extract yourself from your story. But that is the point the RoL essay is not a story. (That is don't get to the 'point' at the end, don't use a tight timeline) it is an overview of something you have already understood and something you tell us about from the start. The body of the essay is looking more deeply at that thing not unveiling it at the end. You are writing as an expert in YOU and your knowledge in order to explain to us what it is, how you got it and why it is important (particularly within the context of your professional practice).

Module twos: Likewise, you are explaining a whole picture not telling the story of what you think about the topic. This module is about spending the term doing activities to be better informed about a topic in terms of how to look into it. What other people have thought about it (literature), what are the ways to explore it (methodology), what are the dangers and beauty of your exploration (ethics), how are you going to prepare for the exploration (method). (The exploration is the inquiry next term). This module is as much about preparing for a journey as it is about the topic itself. The topic dictates the terrain of the journey that is all at this point.

What do you think?

Adesola