Essay help
- Frame your question for a case, focus in on someone that has specialised in decolonisation. A case study into my idea is important. What examples can I use in my essay? Examples on decolonisation.
- How do we think about sound arts, art works and community looking through the lens of an artist. What examples can I use to reflect on in my essay.
- Look into the exhibition that I missed on Wednesday or possibly any exhibitions that look into decolonisation
- The brief is the contract that you must apply yourself to.
Getting started
I must focus on something for my essay, a piece of artwork or an artist that is in the field. Think about three things that are bought up with the case study, then reflect on these.
1500 words, must include referencing and a bibliography.
Sources for decolonisation
George E. Lewis: Eastman Invocations (2018)
Jace Clayton: Sufi plugins
Khyam Allami: Leimma/Apotome
Moisés Horta: Transfiguración (2020)
Read academic text to have a good reference to what I want to write about, academically published texts are trust worthy. Academic texts try to analyse topics, be critical about the sources we use. Be creative.
Blog posts
- You can do the blog posts on the out of class studies and the weekly lecture series. Reflections on lectures, main focus is to look into what I’m interested in.
- Write up about reflections on the topic, I need to get a draft so I can send it to be reflected on.
- Have a look through the lecture slides, do some further research into the sessions I’ve missed. Put them into writing
Academic writing
Sources websites:
Library search, Ariclesplus Ual, Google Schooler, Academia.edu, Sound Arts subject guide, British Library Sounds, Seismograf
Use the reader function or a reader Plugin to help with reading articles online.
Keep notes:
Author, short title, page numbers, key words
Organise the sources and take notes from any articles I find
Zotero, good for organising files and PDFs
Important questions when approaching my texts:
- What kind of text is it?
- What are the key concepts used?
- Does this text employ specialist terminology?
- What are the central arguments made?
- How are these arguments made?
- How could they be questioned?
- Which other texts is the author in conversation with?
- What underlying assumptions are embedded in the writing?
- What is unacknowledged or missing?
Ethnography
- Research
- Direct contact with human agents
- Context of their daily lives (and culture)
- Watching what happens, listing to what’s said, asking questions and producing a richly written account
- Must respect human experience
- Acknowledges culture
Auto-ethnography
- Writes about ones self, from a personal perspective about the culture
- Look inwards
- Focus on the identities, thoughts and feelings of a certain experience.
Writing
- Debate: different writer from different perspectives
- Scholarship: keeping disciplines to the unis academic rules
- Criticism: evaluating other peoples positions
- Analysis: See how things work
- Evidence: Show evidence
- Objectivity: Take into account other people positions, don’t just state your opinion
- Precision: State what I mean and no more.
Getting started
- Mind maps
- Mood board
- Record voice notes
- Automatic writing (write down whatever comes into your head)
Managing the process
- Break the task into manageable steps
- Discuss your ideas
- Read drafts aloud
- Embrace uncertainty
- Leave time for proof reading
- Use Turnin similarity checker
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