Excellent advice to start writing 🙂 The tittle is revealing and I think it is so true. We do flourish writing!
Excellent advice to start writing 🙂 The tittle is revealing and I think it is so true. We do flourish writing!
This is taken from the little book: Doing Research from Garry Thomas Drawing storyboards: Is like a mind map of the subject we are interested in. Its a way of exploring issues attached to your topic. You can look at strands, areas of enquiry. It helps you to come up with fruitful avenues of inquiry on almost anything. Is like extending your thinking as much as possible. (I still couldn’t do mine). Making headway: While doing the literature review and the storyboard you think intensely about your topic. The interest of doing research in a particular idea is already there. How can we start to write about it? How will your argument proceed? It is thinking about where the issue lies?
Do a first writing so others engage and follow your work. You need to find an angle: The so what? (in words of Thomas) You are looking at personal learning environments, so what? You are looking at technology in the class, so what? … My case: The issue lies in 2 main aspects:
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What’s you r original contribution to knowledge even in the abstract!
Literature review:
Outline of the study
How to write convincingly for examiners?
Example:
NOTE: Making a name, a proper name, i.e: omnibus, prosummer.
In the theoretical framework is the place to argue why you chose this and not those other
THINK ABOUT FRAMEWORK
Complexity: why is this the one you chose for
Ecology-Learner generated context – ecology of resources
It is the metaphor I am confortable with, it gathers my own vision of the particular vision of education and learning
Blocking: Identify the problem and see how you can approach it. Look at the research as discrete parts so you can tackle each part
How to maintain the long document cohesive?
Techniques for writing:
What’s the point of the paragraph and then say the points that support your main idea of the paragraph.
Think about the crucial concept of your thesis, so use it repeatedly.
When you are talking of not crucial terms you can use variety, synonyms.
Use simple, short and clear sentences. You need to get the reader attention so use a short, crispy sentence that sets the reader up to prepare to something special or important in your text.
If you have a large idea look for the components in it and break them down. Use simple examples, concrete that illustrate a situation
How to keep the material cohesive?
A personal answer!
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