Conversations today…

Today’s morning SKYPE:

We talked about the ‘bigness of ideas’ and how you grapple with writing about them without going off on tangents that leave you with no time or to big a word count! We talked about the ‘I’ in your research and learning and that you can only write from you perspective so rather than thinking you are creating definitive documents on a subject, write openly about where you are with ideas and how and why they are meaningful within the context of what you are doing now. This can include suggesting some ideas ‘feel’ important but you are not sure how they fit at the moment. Or you are aware that some ideas are much more complex than you present them as but you do not want to go down that tangent right now. Rose is going to post on her blog about this.  http://rosepaye3012.blogspot.co.uk

We talked about the ‘evidence’ (or illustration) for Module One and how this is just the same as having figures you refer to (illustrations) in a piece of writing. Sarah is going to post about citations particularly for different types of material to illustrate in writing. http://sarahsulemanji.blogspot.co.uk

We talked about enjoying the learning process and making the most of the task of making the AOLs Maria and Tamzin will write more on this. Aggy is going to write about being reminded that it is a creative process not a ‘court case’ about the value of your work!!

 http://mariaranden.blogspot.no

 http://tamzinhoward.blogspot.co.uk

Mary is going to post in response to a part of the conversation that was about literature and literature reviews. http://www.marymapp.blogspot.co.uk

Jamie is going to post thoughts about the Professional Artefact, after we talked about its role in as a documentation of your inquiry. http://jamiewarburton.blogspot.co.uk

In this evening SKYPE session we talked about important dates

Dec 9^th – to have written a draft by this date

Dec 19^th – last day of classes at Middlesex Uni (Break for winter holidays)

Jan 2^nd – Middlesex starts back

Jan 5^th – Work must handed in on or before this date

Jan 19^th – Module Three Oral presentations – whole MAPP community is invited.

We talked about getting feedback on drafts after Dec19th and how you need to talk to your adviser about this.

During both conversations we talked about Turnitin and the submission of work process. Helen has written a comprehensive blog post about this in response to the conversations today. http://www.helenkindred.blogspot.co.uk

One tip Ainsley talked about was trying out submitting work before the due date to make sure you know how to do it.

We also talked about the practicality of putting the things together that you will be handing-in. Regardless of the module you are on make sure what you hand in makes sense out side of the familiarity you have with it. It was suggested that you give work to a trusted person (who may not be in your profession) and ask them if it makes sense and ‘can they follow it?’. This way you get someone looking at it who has fresh eyes.

Great conversations to be a part of, Thanks
Adesola