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L3 Dip/Ext Dip in Creative Media Production & Technology
Media Investigation Unit 12 Aim: This unit will require students to research and critically examine the influence of historical and contemporary contexts on their own practice. The unit will enable the student to demonstrate a greater depth of understanding of their discipline and place within it. This assignment brief will also introduce you to the structure of writing academic essays. • Thinking about the question • Gathering information and ideas • Organising your ideas • Getting something on paper • Writing a first draft • Reviewing in the light of feedback/reflection • Producing a final draft Assignment leader: Yvonne Davison Clissitt & Matt Wheatley Unit 12 Specialist study in creative media production
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Questions to ask of your conclusion:• Have I referred back to the title of the essay? • Is my conclusion directly relevant to the essay title? • Have I identified the most important conclusion, not just an interesting side issue? • Have I made sure that I have not introduced a new argument at this stage (have no new evidence) • Have I made any recommendation (if applicable)
Activities
1. Select a media subject you want to investigate.
Start date: 22/01/23 Submission Date:
21/02/22
forms such as fiction and journalism. Academic writing does not come easily to all of us because it is unlike the normal form of language we use in conversation and everyday use. Academic writing is unemotional and impartial, and avoids attempts to express feelings. With practice however, this style is not difficult to use and can be a precise form of communication.
Presentation of the Essay Presentation of your essay – Font size must be no larger than 11 points, must be doubled lined spaced and use justified alignment. Work must have a bibliography. Citations must be Harvard referenced. No images are allowed to be used in the essay. No Plagiarism. Length of essay – a minimum of 1500 words and must not exceed 2000 words.
Brief T
hrough this assignment you will be expected to take greater control of your own learning by independently researching and presenting an investigation into an area of personal interest within creative media production and technology. It is intended that the personal investigative study should be a precursor to the final extended project (FMP).
Your investigation can be an: • Investigations into historical and contemporary influences on media and communication • A case studies of a practitioner or practitioners. • Or have a Social, political, environmental and ethical context. Your investigation must be presented as a piece of academic writing in the form of an essay. Academic writing is a skill, and like any other skill it is possible to learn it and to improve upon it. Assignments and essays are normally written in a particular style of language which is different to that used in other literary
Structure of the essay - The essay must have a good title. Introduction
Start the essay with a clear introduction which summarises the question you are going answer and explains the limits or parameters of the investigation. Try not to exceed more than two paragraphs to introduce your investigation. Your introduction tells the reader how you will answer the question. Begin with a general point about your question. Demonstrate your understanding of the question you have asked and explain how you plan to address the question. Make a link to your title. Main body of the essay Followed by the main body of the essay. The main body of the essay usually presents two different perspectives of an argument. This is sometimes known as examining an issue from a number of different perspectives. It is possible to write an essay from only one perspective, but in this case it is important to state this clearly in the introduction so the reader is aware of the view point from which the essay is written. Conclusion Make sure your essay refers back to the title (re-state your arguments). Make sure your conclusion genuinely wellsupports the evidence and argument that you have presented. (re-state your points)
2. Mind map all the different possibilities of your chosen subject so that you can form a question to answer. Think about areas of debate, issues which relate to your chosen media subject. Unit 12: 1.1, 2.1 3. Once you have identified a subject debate or issue, device a clear question for you to answer. Unit 12: 1.1, 2.1 4. Planning - Plan how you are going to research the question, were will you find your sources of information – websites, books, journals, reports, newspapers, interviews, novels, magazines, archives etc. Planning can be achieved through mind-mapping. Unit 12: 2.1 5. Research and gather information about your question. This will require you to undertake a lot of reading. Be sure to keep all the research you have gathered, and to record all the websites, books, magazines, archival research you have visited and read. So that you will be able to create a bibliography and go back to the source of information if needed. Unit 12: 2.1 6. Organise the structure of the essay: • What are the main ideas that your essay will engage with? • What examples would you like to use to illustrate your ideas in the essay? • Which historians do you think you will need to engage with when writing your essay? • How will you structure your argument? How will the essay unfold? Unit 12: 1.2, 2.2, 3.1 7. Write a first draft. Unit 12: 1.1, 1.2, 2.2, 3.1, 3.2. 8. Review and reflect your first draft by printing it out and reading a printed version, this will help you see any mistakes. Unit 12: 1.1, 1.2, 2.2, 3.1, 3.2. 9. Produce a final essay. Unit 12: 1.1, 1.2, 2.2, 3.1, 3.2. 10. Present the essay as stated in the brief. Unit 12: 1.1, 1.2, 2.2, 3.1, 3.2. Setting targets and recording personal development. You will need to keep a reflective journal to record your personal development, recording the targets you have set, why you have set them, what you have learnt, how you solved problems, issues encountered. You will also need to set your daily targets using pro-monitor and record if you met your targets.
https://www.inkitt.com/writersblog/how-to-embrace-your-novel-edits
Questions to ask of your conclusion:• Have I referred back to the title of the essay? • Is my conclusion directly relevant to the essay title? • Have I identified the most important conclusion, not just an interesting side issue? • Have I made sure that I have not introduced a new argument at this stage (have no new evidence) • Have I made any recommendation (if applicable)
Activities
1. Select a media subject you want to investigate.
Start date: 22/01/23 Submission Date:
21/02/22
forms such as fiction and journalism. Academic writing does not come easily to all of us because it is unlike the normal form of language we use in conversation and everyday use. Academic writing is unemotional and impartial, and avoids attempts to express feelings. With practice however, this style is not difficult to use and can be a precise form of communication.
Presentation of the Essay Presentation of your essay – Font size must be no larger than 11 points, must be doubled lined spaced and use justified alignment. Work must have a bibliography. Citations must be Harvard referenced. No images are allowed to be used in the essay. No Plagiarism. Length of essay – a minimum of 1500 words and must not exceed 2000 words.
Brief T
hrough this assignment you will be expected to take greater control of your own learning by independently researching and presenting an investigation into an area of personal interest within creative media production and technology. It is intended that the personal investigative study should be a precursor to the final extended project (FMP).
Your investigation can be an: • Investigations into historical and contemporary influences on media and communication • A case studies of a practitioner or practitioners. • Or have a Social, political, environmental and ethical context. Your investigation must be presented as a piece of academic writing in the form of an essay. Academic writing is a skill, and like any other skill it is possible to learn it and to improve upon it. Assignments and essays are normally written in a particular style of language which is different to that used in other literary
Structure of the essay - The essay must have a good title. Introduction
Start the essay with a clear introduction which summarises the question you are going answer and explains the limits or parameters of the investigation. Try not to exceed more than two paragraphs to introduce your investigation. Your introduction tells the reader how you will answer the question. Begin with a general point about your question. Demonstrate your understanding of the question you have asked and explain how you plan to address the question. Make a link to your title. Main body of the essay Followed by the main body of the essay. The main body of the essay usually presents two different perspectives of an argument. This is sometimes known as examining an issue from a number of different perspectives. It is possible to write an essay from only one perspective, but in this case it is important to state this clearly in the introduction so the reader is aware of the view point from which the essay is written. Conclusion Make sure your essay refers back to the title (re-state your arguments). Make sure your conclusion genuinely wellsupports the evidence and argument that you have presented. (re-state your points)
2. Mind map all the different possibilities of your chosen subject so that you can form a question to answer. Think about areas of debate, issues which relate to your chosen media subject. Unit 12: 1.1, 2.1 3. Once you have identified a subject debate or issue, device a clear question for you to answer. Unit 12: 1.1, 2.1 4. Planning - Plan how you are going to research the question, were will you find your sources of information – websites, books, journals, reports, newspapers, interviews, novels, magazines, archives etc. Planning can be achieved through mind-mapping. Unit 12: 2.1 5. Research and gather information about your question. This will require you to undertake a lot of reading. Be sure to keep all the research you have gathered, and to record all the websites, books, magazines, archival research you have visited and read. So that you will be able to create a bibliography and go back to the source of information if needed. Unit 12: 2.1 6. Organise the structure of the essay: • What are the main ideas that your essay will engage with? • What examples would you like to use to illustrate your ideas in the essay? • Which historians do you think you will need to engage with when writing your essay? • How will you structure your argument? How will the essay unfold? Unit 12: 1.2, 2.2, 3.1 7. Write a first draft. Unit 12: 1.1, 1.2, 2.2, 3.1, 3.2. 8. Review and reflect your first draft by printing it out and reading a printed version, this will help you see any mistakes. Unit 12: 1.1, 1.2, 2.2, 3.1, 3.2. 9. Produce a final essay. Unit 12: 1.1, 1.2, 2.2, 3.1, 3.2. 10. Present the essay as stated in the brief. Unit 12: 1.1, 1.2, 2.2, 3.1, 3.2. Setting targets and recording personal development. You will need to keep a reflective journal to record your personal development, recording the targets you have set, why you have set them, what you have learnt, how you solved problems, issues encountered. You will also need to set your daily targets using pro-monitor and record if you met your targets.
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Harvard referencing What is referencing? Referencing is a system used in the academic community to indicate where ideas, theories, quotes, facts and any other evidence and information used to undertake an assignment, can be found. Why do I need to reference my work? • To avoid plagiarism, a form of academic theft. • Referencing your work correctly ensures that you give appropriate credit to the sources and authors that you have used to complete your assignment. • Referencing the sources that you have used for your assignment demonstrates that you have undertaken wide-ranging research in order to create your work. • Referencing your work enables the reader to consult for themselves the same materials that you used.
To make your essay more formal, make sure that you avoid features of informal language in your writing:
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Harvard referencing What is referencing? Referencing is a system used in the academic community to indicate where ideas, theories, quotes, facts and any other evidence and information used to undertake an assignment, can be found. Why do I need to reference my work? • To avoid plagiarism, a form of academic theft. • Referencing your work correctly ensures that you give appropriate credit to the sources and authors that you have used to complete your assignment. • Referencing the sources that you have used for your assignment demonstrates that you have undertaken wide-ranging research in order to create your work. • Referencing your work enables the reader to consult for themselves the same materials that you used.
To make your essay more formal, make sure that you avoid features of informal language in your writing: