BVA303 Research for Mapping of Thesis 5 August 2019
BVA303 Research for Mapping of Thesis with Kathryn
Blogging as a method of inquiry
Q&A
Why blog: record thoughts and research - up to date and good way to reflect. How is it a way to reflect? shows your evidence progress - photos are a visual way of reflecting?
Step by step photos with annotations - use of materials.
documenting experiments
time management - hopefully won't repeat the same mistake twice.
A good space to gather information or a central hub to keep research and links to useful sites.
Start writing about own practice - then I can cut and paste into thesis.
Question 1.
Explain in what sense the writers of blogs can be considered "simultaneously human, machine and text."? A combination of input
2. How do yo think blogging can become "an act of becoming."? if the author is the text is willing and open
3. How do you think blogs set up relationships across time and space? the connections between videos from different times, published at different times and place - this connects with people or readers potentially across the world.
4. What,according to Barnes does 'blogging as inquiry' as a method challenge? Do you agree why, why not? She challenges writing as a linear process - blogging is liminal (between or belonging in two places - a transitional state - yes I agree with her because blogging is open ended and can be re-arranged and altered as the writer chooses.
5. What according Barnes are the simultaneous roles a blogger performs? Explain each of these roles.Reader|Writer|Audience - reads as editor and writer - the audience changes the way she writes and reflects.
6. How according to Barnes is writing collaborative? What are the examples she uses to reinforce this idea? It takes her audience or readers to complete the never ending cycle of blogging or the nature of blogging is not just a writer creating a single academic piece of work as say in a thesis. The collaboration between writer and audience who can reply to blog posts influences the writers written word.
7. Describe what Barnes means by the creation of 'cyber-textual-organic relationships" through blogging? This is the way the readers connect through blogging, they can reply and comment. Barnes thinks these relationships are important.
8. In What way does Barnes relate blogging to assemblage? Blogging is an assemblage of text,space and time. This connects the human through the machine. Similar to an assemblage of art work drawing on more than one element to complete the work.
9. How does blogging open up avenues for criticism and what could be the benefits associated with this? Helpful criticism is useful, this is done through comments sections and links on blogs are an avenue or place and way for the audience and reader to engage with the writer.
10. What are the "considerable ramifications for the public and scholarly engagement" resultant from the "clickable capability of blogs?" it can take the reader beyond that text to other scholarly writings and blogs and websites. The ability for the audience to comment, to enter a conversation can be a positive or negative effect or result.
11. How can a blog be though of as a collaboration between the past, present and future? The way readers can link without using any clumsy or time consuming citations. A collaboration can connect past thinkers to present and in turn comments can flow on from this.
12. What does ethical blogging consider?The affect and effect our words have on other worlds we write about.
13. Barnes states "There is no singular entity responsible for the text that sits on the screen". Explain what point she is trying to make here. There is a collaboration and combination of things or forces at play. This can be the writer, the web, the site (platform) and the audience.
14. Barnes states "writing is not just something that I do separate from my life." Explain what point she is trying to make here. Barnes is saying that her writing comes from her experiences as opposed to academic or scientific factual writing backed by citations from scholars. Her experiences are blended in her writing and as a blogger this is how I put myself into my posts.
15. How do your/might your experiences inform your blogging process? You get to add your own thoughts especially in tactile experiences or explorations.
16. What role do you think personal experiences have in blogging inquiry? It has your own opinions and goes beyond just the facts - it can add a part of myself into the blog thus creating a more human touch. contains my theme
17. What issue did the acknowledgement of personal experience in the context of academia raise for Barnes? Barnes wrote about it his her blog - that is her relationship with academia.
18. How did "expressivist composition techniques" help address this problem for Barnes? She found other academics to back up her style of writing,
19. Describe how you think blogging embraces a style of writing uncommon in academic literature? non academics can participate and that changes the way the writer or blogger engages with their audience and creates a different style of engagement.
20. Do you think a blog could be considered "an act of academic activism"? Do you agree/disagree - why/why not? yes because blogs often reach outside of the academic audience | the person on "the street" can engage just the same as the academic - this is something that did not exist prior to blogging being part of academic writing.
21. How does Barnes propose blogging in a form of "academic activism"? Do you agree - why/why not? That it takes away the privilege and gets to the whole community which means a larger audience eg 10,000 readers not 20 or 30.
22. What role did writing autobiographically play in "academic activism" for Barnes? it gave her work emotion, provoked reactions from readers and worked on the fringe of academia.
23. How was the reaction of the audience a trans formative process for Barnes? Barnes could see instant reactions from readers and their responses were relevant and personal.
24. What was Barnes reminded of through the blog for The Conversation and why is this significant? Barnes was reminded about the issues at schools, leaking toilets, asbestos, etc. Teacher support and parents support.
25. How, according to Barnes, is blogging an iterative process? Each blog is an archive of ideas, extrapolating, expanding, revising, discussing
26. What does Barnes say her blogging is a record of and why? A record of becoming a scholar, being a mother, being a community member, a partner, sister, aunt and a teacher. It is a way of recording and keeping a record.
27. What happens, according to Barnes, when the focus is on the reader? The audience and readers reactions encouraged Barnes to write more.
28. In what way has Barnes's blogging practice become a reading management system? As the reader asks the writer questions within the blog this forces the writer to re-check and analyze her work. i.e. acknowledge citations where needed
29. What according to Barnes is the difference between this paper about blogging as a method of inquiry and her blog? Academic writing is generally seamless and in a completed format whereas a blog can be interrupted, segmented, questioned and able to be reviewed and quickly or within a time frame that is not available to a paper version.
30. Why do you think blogging should be considered in the development of writing and composition theory? Journals are now online so a closer to blogging as a way to read them. This enables the reader unrestricted access to both and blogging becomes a natural progression to developing traditional writing methods.
31. What do you think Barnes means when she says "My blogging is a map, not a snap shot?" Barnes writes about her life, thinking and the future - it is a map of her life, one that is constantly being added to and documented in real time.
32. How is the "power over the production of knowledge" intersected through blogging? It opens up to several genres and mediums of communication available to a wider audience not just an academic one.
Task: Think about what Barnes has discussed about blogging as a means on inquiry. How could you use her research to make your own blogging process more productive?
Barnes is doing some very relevant work to my project and they way I record my information, thoughts and sometime feelings about my work as well as citing academic and peer reviewed materials in classes such as History and Theory. The part where I get feedback from a reader needs work as at this stage I have only ever received one or two comments - this requires me to put my blog address and topics into my website, Facebook, LinkedIn to get to a wider reader audience and hopefully receive feedback.
https://www.edu.au/blog/?p=1770
Compose a paragraph or two about your current blogging process and how you could improve this to focus on blogging as a research method/method of inquiry.
My current blogging process is gathering information from practitioners, academic resources and writings and documenting my processes | this includes experimental work, development of my project and a visual record in a blog rather than a paper journal. I could improve this by making sure each post is completed and relevant to my project when I add artists and links to my Theory and History posts. I need to make sure I cite work correctly and not just drop links into the bottom of the post to make my work more professional and scholarly.
Dissertation - about my project -
Title - reflection of content of dissertation - if it is conceptual have a sub title - be precise
Introduction - 1-2 paragraphs - write this lastly - make sure this is not the same as the conclusion
Blogging as a method of inquiry
Q&A
Why blog: record thoughts and research - up to date and good way to reflect. How is it a way to reflect? shows your evidence progress - photos are a visual way of reflecting?
Step by step photos with annotations - use of materials.
documenting experiments
time management - hopefully won't repeat the same mistake twice.
A good space to gather information or a central hub to keep research and links to useful sites.
Start writing about own practice - then I can cut and paste into thesis.
Question 1.
Explain in what sense the writers of blogs can be considered "simultaneously human, machine and text."? A combination of input
2. How do yo think blogging can become "an act of becoming."? if the author is the text is willing and open
3. How do you think blogs set up relationships across time and space? the connections between videos from different times, published at different times and place - this connects with people or readers potentially across the world.
4. What,according to Barnes does 'blogging as inquiry' as a method challenge? Do you agree why, why not? She challenges writing as a linear process - blogging is liminal (between or belonging in two places - a transitional state - yes I agree with her because blogging is open ended and can be re-arranged and altered as the writer chooses.
5. What according Barnes are the simultaneous roles a blogger performs? Explain each of these roles.Reader|Writer|Audience - reads as editor and writer - the audience changes the way she writes and reflects.
6. How according to Barnes is writing collaborative? What are the examples she uses to reinforce this idea? It takes her audience or readers to complete the never ending cycle of blogging or the nature of blogging is not just a writer creating a single academic piece of work as say in a thesis. The collaboration between writer and audience who can reply to blog posts influences the writers written word.
7. Describe what Barnes means by the creation of 'cyber-textual-organic relationships" through blogging? This is the way the readers connect through blogging, they can reply and comment. Barnes thinks these relationships are important.
8. In What way does Barnes relate blogging to assemblage? Blogging is an assemblage of text,space and time. This connects the human through the machine. Similar to an assemblage of art work drawing on more than one element to complete the work.
9. How does blogging open up avenues for criticism and what could be the benefits associated with this? Helpful criticism is useful, this is done through comments sections and links on blogs are an avenue or place and way for the audience and reader to engage with the writer.
10. What are the "considerable ramifications for the public and scholarly engagement" resultant from the "clickable capability of blogs?" it can take the reader beyond that text to other scholarly writings and blogs and websites. The ability for the audience to comment, to enter a conversation can be a positive or negative effect or result.
11. How can a blog be though of as a collaboration between the past, present and future? The way readers can link without using any clumsy or time consuming citations. A collaboration can connect past thinkers to present and in turn comments can flow on from this.
12. What does ethical blogging consider?The affect and effect our words have on other worlds we write about.
13. Barnes states "There is no singular entity responsible for the text that sits on the screen". Explain what point she is trying to make here. There is a collaboration and combination of things or forces at play. This can be the writer, the web, the site (platform) and the audience.
14. Barnes states "writing is not just something that I do separate from my life." Explain what point she is trying to make here. Barnes is saying that her writing comes from her experiences as opposed to academic or scientific factual writing backed by citations from scholars. Her experiences are blended in her writing and as a blogger this is how I put myself into my posts.
15. How do your/might your experiences inform your blogging process? You get to add your own thoughts especially in tactile experiences or explorations.
16. What role do you think personal experiences have in blogging inquiry? It has your own opinions and goes beyond just the facts - it can add a part of myself into the blog thus creating a more human touch. contains my theme
17. What issue did the acknowledgement of personal experience in the context of academia raise for Barnes? Barnes wrote about it his her blog - that is her relationship with academia.
18. How did "expressivist composition techniques" help address this problem for Barnes? She found other academics to back up her style of writing,
19. Describe how you think blogging embraces a style of writing uncommon in academic literature? non academics can participate and that changes the way the writer or blogger engages with their audience and creates a different style of engagement.
20. Do you think a blog could be considered "an act of academic activism"? Do you agree/disagree - why/why not? yes because blogs often reach outside of the academic audience | the person on "the street" can engage just the same as the academic - this is something that did not exist prior to blogging being part of academic writing.
21. How does Barnes propose blogging in a form of "academic activism"? Do you agree - why/why not? That it takes away the privilege and gets to the whole community which means a larger audience eg 10,000 readers not 20 or 30.
22. What role did writing autobiographically play in "academic activism" for Barnes? it gave her work emotion, provoked reactions from readers and worked on the fringe of academia.
23. How was the reaction of the audience a trans formative process for Barnes? Barnes could see instant reactions from readers and their responses were relevant and personal.
24. What was Barnes reminded of through the blog for The Conversation and why is this significant? Barnes was reminded about the issues at schools, leaking toilets, asbestos, etc. Teacher support and parents support.
25. How, according to Barnes, is blogging an iterative process? Each blog is an archive of ideas, extrapolating, expanding, revising, discussing
26. What does Barnes say her blogging is a record of and why? A record of becoming a scholar, being a mother, being a community member, a partner, sister, aunt and a teacher. It is a way of recording and keeping a record.
27. What happens, according to Barnes, when the focus is on the reader? The audience and readers reactions encouraged Barnes to write more.
28. In what way has Barnes's blogging practice become a reading management system? As the reader asks the writer questions within the blog this forces the writer to re-check and analyze her work. i.e. acknowledge citations where needed
29. What according to Barnes is the difference between this paper about blogging as a method of inquiry and her blog? Academic writing is generally seamless and in a completed format whereas a blog can be interrupted, segmented, questioned and able to be reviewed and quickly or within a time frame that is not available to a paper version.
30. Why do you think blogging should be considered in the development of writing and composition theory? Journals are now online so a closer to blogging as a way to read them. This enables the reader unrestricted access to both and blogging becomes a natural progression to developing traditional writing methods.
31. What do you think Barnes means when she says "My blogging is a map, not a snap shot?" Barnes writes about her life, thinking and the future - it is a map of her life, one that is constantly being added to and documented in real time.
32. How is the "power over the production of knowledge" intersected through blogging? It opens up to several genres and mediums of communication available to a wider audience not just an academic one.
Task: Think about what Barnes has discussed about blogging as a means on inquiry. How could you use her research to make your own blogging process more productive?
Barnes is doing some very relevant work to my project and they way I record my information, thoughts and sometime feelings about my work as well as citing academic and peer reviewed materials in classes such as History and Theory. The part where I get feedback from a reader needs work as at this stage I have only ever received one or two comments - this requires me to put my blog address and topics into my website, Facebook, LinkedIn to get to a wider reader audience and hopefully receive feedback.
https://www.edu.au/blog/?p=1770
Compose a paragraph or two about your current blogging process and how you could improve this to focus on blogging as a research method/method of inquiry.
My current blogging process is gathering information from practitioners, academic resources and writings and documenting my processes | this includes experimental work, development of my project and a visual record in a blog rather than a paper journal. I could improve this by making sure each post is completed and relevant to my project when I add artists and links to my Theory and History posts. I need to make sure I cite work correctly and not just drop links into the bottom of the post to make my work more professional and scholarly.
Dissertation - about my project -
Title - reflection of content of dissertation - if it is conceptual have a sub title - be precise
Introduction - 1-2 paragraphs - write this lastly - make sure this is not the same as the conclusion
- Question - first sentence
- Definitions - words in questions the reader might not understand e.g. Diorama, anthropomorphic
- Rationale - explanation of why I am doing my work - to discover, to communicate idea - a couple of sentences about why my research is important - why the project is important.
- methodology - sentence ot two - a summary of what I am going to elaborate on in my body - this includes my approach to blogging and journaling - tie them together
- organisation sentences - 1-2 eg firstly I am going to discuss this......have this in my mapping to begin with. provides a navigation to my reader and how the thesis is going to roll out. This is usually the last sentence in the introduction.
Body - first
Methodology - 1st paragraph - goes after introduction and going in the body
majority of content is in the body (paragraph 3-5 sentences) be very clear about the argument. First sentence of every paragraph - making a statement - one idea per paragraph.
- argument
- example - quote - refer to image - talk about own practice - how this relates to
- explanation for relevance of example to argument and how the example supports the argument.
- Paraphrasing - according to Mr D - small quote and parts of it - relevance of material to project.
- Use quotes
- talk about practice.
Conclusion - second (1-2 paragraphs - be succinct)
restating what you have discussed and arguments through the body of the dissertation - then the discoveries as a result of making my work - this is what my project is about. (this is my work)
Images - put in own section at the end
References -
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