Notes on Structure
From Critical Practice Chelsea
The UAL document titled, "Guidance for Research Degree Students a the Confirmation Stage" offers the following guidelines for the literature and/or practice review:
A review of the literature and/or practice (if the degree includes a significant body of creative work) or a literature review (if the degree is entirely text-based) is used to locate your research against scholarship and/or practice in the field. Its role is to demonstrate your awareness of relevant research activity and to create a backdrop that will demonstrate the manner and extent to which your research is a significant contribution to knowledge in your field.
Models: OB and SS caution against relying too heavily on examples. Developing a conducive structure--a structure that embodies and supports the ethos of research--is part of the process. It's my ambition to weave together my reflections/readings of theoretical, historical and practical texts into some kind of semi-coherent whole. This approach stems from an emerging dialogic sensibility, about which I'll say more in my discussion on methods.
Structure: My research review is coalescing into the following sections:
- Dialogic and Dialectic
- Openness and Discursiveness
- Decision Making and Representation: The Public Sphere
- Alterity and Post-Autonomy
- Subjectivity (group, individual, technologized)
- Performativity and Authorship
- Collaboration and Participation
- Web 2.0, textuality, intertextuality and spatiality
- Utterance as Negotiation: listening and response
- Ethics and Aesthetics
+ Concepts are grouping together.
+ Juxtapositions are creating productive rubs.
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