Lecture week 2

Why you cant write a good essay in a week:

Time,asthetics and composition – how do we evaluate writing

• In more strongly ‘fact’ based disciplines.
• Area of study (gap analysis)
• Hypothesis- Cs peirce Abduction + semiotics
• Experimental Design – Creativity
• Internal Relational coherance
• Relations with world (through data aquistion)

In cultural studies/humanities

Emphasis upon meaning production

An essay has context but is also interpretative ;

• Persuasive
• Coherent
• Enlightening
• Constructs away of seeing/ the drawing of an aspect

Importance of relations

External relations

• Explicit (refercing)
• Implicit/tacit
• Metaphor/tone/style

Annecdotes – powerful image usually intended to demonstrate wider significance – sometimes require active dimension

• Deleuze American blankets/dressings from infermaries
• left on indian trade route

Monty hall paradox

• Used to establish/demonstrate the idea of cognitive illusions
• Describe problem:host opens different door to choice and shows goat then offers a choice to switch or not
• Controversy in math journals
• Marilyn Vos Savants response.

Scamper

S – Substitue

C – Combine

A – Adapt – change some part of problem so that it works where it didnt before

M – Modify – consider attributes size,shape,colour etc

P – Purpose – modify intention of subject

E – Eliminate – remove any or all elements of your subject,reduce,eliminate

R – Reverse – change the direction and orientation

R – Rearrange – modify the order and heirachy

M – Magnify – zoom in on something, amplify its intensity

Substitute

• What keywords can you substitue or swap in to improve the title/sequence?
• What refrences or methodologies did you think you would use. Substitue there for something different?
• What keywords could you substitute with your own?
• Can you use this idea somewhere else, substitute the context for something else, or use the idea as a substitute for something else?

Combine

• What would happen if you combined this idea with another,would this create something new? write this in a sentence

Adapt

• How could you adapt or read just this sentence to serve another purpose or use?
• Adapt your so words into a quotation

Modify

• How could you change the shape/look,or feel of your 50 words?

Put another use

• Can you use this sentence somewhere else, perhaps in another paragraph

Eliminate

• How could streamline or simplify this sentence/paragraph/chapter.

Reverse

• What would happen if you reversed things or went about things or went about things backwards,the wrong way around
• Can you argue from the inside out or sequence.