Introduction
What are you going to address and how are you going to address it?
What are your intentions?
- Demonstrate a critical knowledge of practice
- Apply theory to practice
- Analyse relevant material
- Evaluate theory and evidence within the context of study
- Reflect: critiquing and critically
- Are you passive with accepting ideas from other writers or do you try to challenge them?
Deep Theory
- Independent engagement with material
- Critical and thoughtful about idea and information
- Relates theory and research to own experience and knowledge
- Sees the bigger picture
- Relates evidence to conclusions
- Examines logic of arguments
- Interested in wider reading and thinking
- Ongoing preparation and reflection
- Each academic discipline has its own specialist vocal which you will be expected to learn and use in your own writing
- Make sure that your arguments are backed up with quotes and theorists
- Preliminaries: Title, acknowledgements, contents, list of illustrations
- Introduction: The abstract, statement of the problem, methodological approach
- Main body: Review of literature, logically developed argument chapters, results of investigation, case study
- Conclusion: Discussion and conclusion, summary of conclusions
- Extras: Bibliography, appendices
- Have a look at dissertations in the library
COP3 submission document can be found on e-studio
- This will explain how to lay out your essay and how to order it
Harvard Referencing
e-studio explains basics
Author (date) Title, Place, Publisher.
- Make sure that the way you format titles / author names, you keep bibliography and text referencing the same.
'quote quote' (surname, year, page)
- DON'T USE SPEECH MARKS!
When quoting an artist from a book, use (Smith in Miles, 2013, p7)
- Bibliography should be alphabetised by surname and ordered in types of sources, e.g. books, films, etc.
- Illustrations need to be referenced like author, date, title.
- If found in a book, reference where you found it.
- Owb photos: "author's own image"
- Have a look at Leeds uni website for referencing.
