PROJECT BRIEF - RESEARCH PROPOSAL (this project is non-assessed but contributes towards RESEARCH PRESENTATION 1 - ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY AND RESEARCH PROPOSAL)
The structure for the RESEARCH PROPOSAL are taken from: Cottrell (2014).
1. WHAT? (plan what you want to do - and how you are going to do it - for for the CRITICAL RESEARCH REPORT ...)
- The RESEARCH PROPOSAL should be completed after carrying out general background reading into your research subject.
- The RESEARCH PROPOSAL will help you to clarify your ideas, set yourself a title and to identify any problems.
- The RESEARCH PROPOSAL will begin as a post on your REFLECTIVE JOURNAL (500 words) and will then be used to form the focus of your RESEARCH PRESENTATION 1 - ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY AND RESEARCH PROPOSAL.
A three-page study called 'And Bringing Up the Rear: Pippa Middleton, Her Derrière and Celebrity', written by a Birkbeck, University of London scholar, Janet McCabe, marks Britain’s instant new status as top dog and intellectual driver of an entire academic field. It is, in that respect, as mentally electrifying as was a one-page study called 'A Structure for Deoxyribose Nucleic Acid', published in 1953 by a pair of then-obscure University of Cambridge scholars named James Watson and Francis Crick.
The Watson-Crick paper revealed the basic chemical machinery by which all living creatures pass their physical characteristics on to subsequent generations. People speak still, these more-than-60 years later, of how that paper revolutionised biology.
The McCabe treatise elucidates the way in which an entire nation’s business and cultural machinery managed to focus itself on a royally connected woman’s arse. People speak of it still. And now they speak, thanks to a slightly shifted focus provided by that same business and cultural machinery, of Pippa Middleton’s sister’s arse.
The Pippa paper was published in the journal Celebrity Studies. The journal, founded in the year 2010, published by Routledge, has come to epitomise, if not utterly dominate, the entire academic field with which it shares a name. The journal’s self-stated aim is modest: 'Celebrity Studies aims to address key issues in the production, circulation and consumption of fame, and its manifestations in both contemporary and historical contexts, while functioning as a key site for academic debate about the enterprise of celebrity studies itself.'
McCabe’s Pippa Middleton analysis appeared in the November 2011 issue. McCabe writes: 'The celebrity of the Middleton curves has something important to tell us about celebrating the feminine ideal, which is compelling enough to psychically entangle us and from which we are not entirely able to free ourselves.' (Abrahams, 2014).
The above quotation is 300 words long (if it looks the same as the example text on the PROJECT BRIEF - CRITICAL RESEARCH REPORT which is 400 words - it is because this quote uses longer words...)
How many words are there in this quote (which is about research indicating that students prefer experiencing pain to thinking...)?
The first run of experiments began with students being ushered – alone, without phones, books or anything to write with – into an unadorned room and told to think. The only rules were they had to stay seated and not fall asleep. They were informed – specifically, or vaguely – that they would have six to 15 minutes alone.
The students were questioned when the time was up. On average, they did not enjoy the experience. They struggled to concentrate. Their minds wandered even with nothing to distract them.Even giving them time to think about what to think about did not help.
In case the unfamiliar setting hampered the ability to think, the researchers ran the experiment again with people at home.
They got much the same results, only people found the experience even more miserable, and cheated by getting up from their chair or checking their phones.
To see if the effect was found only in students, the scientists recruited more than 100 people, aged 18-77, from a church and a farmers' market. They too disliked being left to their thoughts.
But the most staggering result was yet to come. To check whether people might actually prefer something bad to nothing at all, the students were given the option of administering a mild electric shock.
They had been asked earlier to rate how unpleasant the shocks were, alongside other options, such as looking at pictures of cockroaches or hearing the sound of a knife rubbing against a bottle.
All the students picked for the test said they would pay to avoid mild electric shocks after receiving a demonstration.
To the researchers' surprise, 12 of 18 men gave themselves up to four electric shocks, as did six of 24 women.
"What is striking is that simply being alone with their thoughts was apparently so aversive that it drove many participants to self-administer an electric shock that they had earlier said they would pay to avoid," the scientists write in Science. (Sample, 2014).
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See the Pinterest Research Scrapbook for more examples of research
https://www.pinterest.com/pcourtenay1/research-scrapbook/
See the Pinterest Research Scrapbook for more examples of research
https://www.pinterest.com/pcourtenay1/research-scrapbook/
- The RESEARCH PROPOSAL should include a REFERENCE LIST of the key texts referred to (Harvard). It does not need to include your full BIBLIOGRAPHY of research.
What is the difference between a REFERENCE LIST and a BIBLIOGRAPHY?
See the REFERENCING, QUOTE OF THE WEEK/NEWS STORY OF THE WEEK pages, plus referencing software
https://www.mendeley.com
http://www.neilstoolbox.com/bibliography-creator/
(student recommended...)
https://www.mendeley.com
http://www.neilstoolbox.com/bibliography-creator/
(student recommended...)
2. HOW? (what to include ...)
foundations of literature
issue
hypothesis
parameters
methodology
ethical considerations
foundations of literature
issue
hypothesis
parameters
methodology
ethical considerations
3. WHY? (learning outcomes...)
The learning outcomes which are important for the assessment of the RESEARCH PROPOSAL are in bold underlined
1. To self-manage ongoing independent academic research on subjects of personal interest within fashion and textiles.
2. To show understanding of the relationship between academic research and studio practice.
3. To show knowledge of the historical, technical and social development of post-industrial fashion and textiles.
4. To show awareness of theoretical issues within fashion and textiles.
5. To present research (secondary and original) in an academic form (written and verbal) conforming to academic conventions (Harvard reference system).
6. To show analysis and evaluation of research.
The learning outcomes which are important for the assessment of the RESEARCH PROPOSAL are in bold underlined
1. To self-manage ongoing independent academic research on subjects of personal interest within fashion and textiles.
2. To show understanding of the relationship between academic research and studio practice.
3. To show knowledge of the historical, technical and social development of post-industrial fashion and textiles.
4. To show awareness of theoretical issues within fashion and textiles.
5. To present research (secondary and original) in an academic form (written and verbal) conforming to academic conventions (Harvard reference system).
6. To show analysis and evaluation of research.
4. WHEN? (hand in ... )
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5. ASSESSMENT
The RESEARCH PROPOSAL is not formally assessed but it contributes to the RESEARCH PRESENTATION 1 - ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY AND RESEARCH PROPOSAL.
REFERENCES
Abrahams, M. (2014) 'Seat of learning - studying Pippa Middleton's bottom', The Guardian 17 June [Online]. Available at: http://www.theguardian.com/education/2014/jun/17/studying-pippa-middleton-bottom-improbable-research (Accessed 14 October 2015).
Cottrell, S. (2014) Dissertations and project reports - a step by step guide. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
Sample, I. (2014) 'Shocking but true: students prefer jolt of pain to being made to sit and think', The Guardian 3 July [Online]. Available at: http://www.theguardian.com/science/2014/jul/03/electric-shock-preferable-to-thinking-says-study (Accessed 14 October 2015).
Abrahams, M. (2014) 'Seat of learning - studying Pippa Middleton's bottom', The Guardian 17 June [Online]. Available at: http://www.theguardian.com/education/2014/jun/17/studying-pippa-middleton-bottom-improbable-research (Accessed 14 October 2015).
Cottrell, S. (2014) Dissertations and project reports - a step by step guide. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
Sample, I. (2014) 'Shocking but true: students prefer jolt of pain to being made to sit and think', The Guardian 3 July [Online]. Available at: http://www.theguardian.com/science/2014/jul/03/electric-shock-preferable-to-thinking-says-study (Accessed 14 October 2015).
