Design Research Dissertation / Assignment 1: Draft Dissertation
29.8.2022 - 16.10.2022 (Week 1 - Week 7)
Britney Chow Pei Jun / 0350043 /
BDCM
Design Research Dissertation
Project 1: Draft Dissertation
JUMPLINKS
LECTURES
Fig 1.1; Week 1 Notes;
Fig 1.2; How to write a Literature Review;
Fig 1.3; Literature Review Notes;
Fig 1.4; Preparing Methodology;
Fig 1.5; Research Methodology Notes;
Fig 1.6; Writing Results & Discussion;
Fig 1.7; Results & Discussion Notes;
Fig 1.8; Conclusion, Intro and Abstract;
Fig 1.9; Abstract Notes;
INSTRUCTIONS
PROGRESSION
In this assignment, we are to write out a draft dissertation. The order is to
write a literature review, then methodology, findings and analysis,
discussion, conclusion and only then back to introduction and others. Below is
my draft dissertation
Final Project 1: Draft Dissertation
FEEDBACK
WEEK 1
General Feedback: There will be interim deadlines for assignment 1, and the
Specific Feedback: -
WEEK 2
General Feedbacks: You guys need to attend consultation
Specific Feedback: You need to understand the articles you chose, and according to the analysis you did in the matrix, write a literature review. You have to compare and contrast between the articles
WEEK 3
General Feedbacks: Be More descriptive
Specific Feedback: Add more citations. Add a justification to it as well.
WEEK 4
General Feedbacks: Be more descriptive, do not assume that the readers know what you are trying to say.
Specific Feedback: You need to include what you have written last semester here for section 3 research methods. You can put tables for your focus group interview analysis. The chart you use shouldn’t be a copy and paste from the Google Form, you don’t have to change it now, but do remember it next time.
WEEK 5
General Feedbacks: Interim deadline is to keep us on track, so we don’t cram the whole thing during the submission week
Specific Feedback: Discussion needs to combine section 2 and section 4.
WEEK 6
General Feedbacks: Remember to update your weekly progression sheet
Specific Feedback: Conclusion is to understand thoroughly what you have written in the previous sections, so do make sure that you understand.
WEEK 7
No class
REFLECTION
WEEK 1
First week of the class, to be honest, I do not know how to feel as this module isn’t my favorite but I think I would get to learn something from this module. Anyhow, I think that this module will be challenging for me this semester. For this week, we are required to review back the articles that we have chosen in the previous semester, and do a literature matrix. I think it doesn’t sound as hard as I think, so I think the first week is fine.
WEEK 2
This week we are required to write a literature review based on the literature matrix that we did last week. I think this part is much more challenging compared to last week considering how I need to compare and contrast all the articles. However, I think that the matrix we did last week helped me in doing the literature review. For me, my English isn’t really good, that’s why I think that this part of the assignment takes up quite a lot of time for me as I have to keep deleting it and writing it again.
WEEK 3
This part of the assignment isn’t as hard as the previous one because for this part, I basically have to reinforce the things that I wrote in the previous semester, however, there’s also a lot of things that need to be added. However, I still think I need to improve my English much more. Luckily, I was able to finish this section before the interim deadline.
WEEK 4
This part of the assignment is also pretty easy for me as well since basically I have to analyze the findings that I got from the last semester. I have to enhance the results since I have got some new respondents during the semester break. Rather than feeling it’s challenging and difficult, I felt that it was more troublesome. However, I was able to complete it in due time.
WEEK 5
This part is quite difficult for me because I have to combine both section 2’s literature review and section 4’s findings and analysis. Although it may seem easy to others, it seems pretty hard to me as I have to go over and over again to state the points and also discuss them. This part of the assignment took me a long time to complete. I feel quite stressed compared to other times since I don’t really know what to do at first, and my confidence in what I’m doing is non-existence. Furthermore, my poor English isn’t helping me as well, a lot of time I find myself having to translate whatever I want to say, then re-edit it before writing it down. Fortunately, I was able to complete it before the submission date.
WEEK 6
Writing a conclusion is another hard part for me due to how I have to scan through my whole dissertation before writing it. It’s been a few days since I touched it, and while I was able to remember what I wrote in discussion, I do not remember everything I wrote in the previous section. Thus, I have to reread what I wrote previously, double checking all the errors and whatnot before I start to write a conclusion, and that took up some of my time.
WEEK 7
For me, this part is much easier compared to the previous 2 sections as I just have to basically write an overview of the dissertation. The other parts are also pretty easy as I just have to put in the reference list and also the appendices. Overall, I was able to complete this part of the dissertation in due time. However, once I’m done with these parts, I then move back to the previous parts like section 2 and 5 just to double check and correct what I wrote wrong before. Due to my lack of confidence in my work, I again, was really stressed out and worried. To be honest, I spend quite a lot of time trying to rewrite these 2 sections.
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