Annotated bibliography, Course Level, Critical thinking, Essay, Essay writing, Intermediate, Lecture, Literature Review, Oral presentation, Presentation, Producing an argument, Reading, Referencing, Research, Workshop
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| School | Music Humanities and Media |
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| Module Title | Research Skills |
| Level | Intermediate |
| Initiator | Janette Martin, Rebecca Gill, Pat Hill |
| Rationale | This module aims to support the conception and planning of an independent research project. As such, the course offers significant underpinning for third-year dissertations and projects. Students will have the opportunity to develop their own historical interests, but attend a series of workshops designed to foster their research skills. Throughout the course, students gain oral and written feedback, enabling them to reflect upon and enhance their research and evaluation skills. |
| Description of Initiative | The module is taught over three days in the second term of Year 2. It is supported with a bank of materials through the VLE Unilearn. On the Day 1 students are given practical sessions on researching primary and secondary material and given taster sessions on different historical periods. They are given the task to choose and research a topic over the following 4 weeks; they submit a short blog entry on their idea and are allocated a supervisor who can guide them in their research. On Day 2 they do workshops on annotated bibliographies and writing a proposal and have a lecture and workshop on producing a historiography. Four weeks later they produce a proposal and annotated bibliography for their chosen topic and on Day 3 they do a short presentation and get immediate feedback. They are also offered a range of parallel sessions including: time management and organisation; an introduction to quantitative methods; ethics and research, a talk on postgraduate opportunities in history. They then write a historiography and can choose to take this topic on into the final year dissertation or simply use the skills they have developed to research another topic. |
| Assessment | Annotated bibliography and proposal (2000words)
Presentation 2000 word Historiography |
| Ideas for adapting | Step by step development of skills necessary to undertake a major project.
Full day workshops with time between for independent research. A choice of topic and a dedicated specialist supervisor |
| Resources | http://archiveshub.ac.uk/guides/usingarchives/
http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fac/heahistory/resources/rg_freeman_quantitativeskills_20100131_02.pdfhttp://www.vtstutorials.ac.uk/tutorial/audio/ http://www.vtstutorials.ac.uk/detective/ http://www.vtstutorials.ac.uk/tutorial/imagesearching/
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