DESIGN RESEARCH DISSERTATION/ PROJECT 1 - DRAFT DISSERTATION
Design Research Dissertation
Project 1/ Research Implementation - Draft Dissertation
LECTURE
How to write Literature Review:
- Gauge the field in a critical way by assessing the major contributions
- Ensure continuous development of analytical and critical skills.
- Practice your writing. Literature reviews can be a little rough and ready, but writing in a concise and analytical fashion is excellent practice for later academic writing.
- You cannot make a contribution to knowledge if you don’t have a clear grasp of the major points of the field.
- Understanding how to understand the basic requirement of writing a literature review.
- Choosing the best approach for researching and writing literature review.
- Understanding how literature review is different from other research papers and academic assignments.
- Understanding how to write the introduction, findings discussion and conclusion for the literature review.
How to assess a source
- Look at the abstract – is the article relevant?
- Is the theoretical framework adequately conceptualised?
- In qualitative studies in particular environments (virtual game/video, labs, etc.) is there any indication that the results may have been tampered with in order to fulfil a research expectation? An adequate sample size?
- Is the article or book has been cited often? A pivotal intervention?
Preparing Your Methodology
- Explain your research approach
- Why you chose this methodology and research design
- Show how your approach and methods along with your overall research problem and purpose
- All academic writing tends to revolve around an argument.
- In this section, you are making an argument for this methodology and not others.
- As with any other argument you will have a main claim and sub-claims, you’ll need evidence, and you’ll need to provide counter claims.
Results & Discussion:
- When writing a dissertation or thesis, the results and discussion sections can be both the most interesting as well as the most challenging sections to write.
- You may choose to write these sections separately, or combine them into a single chapter, depending on the university’s guidelines and your own preferences.
Conclusion:
- Conclusion can also in the discussion section.
- Common practice to include a short section at the end of your dissertation that draws out your conclusion.
Several elements, including:
A brief summary, just a few paragraphs, of your key findings, related back to what you expected to see (essential);
The conclusion which you have drawn from your research (essential);
Why your research is important for researchers and practitioners (essential);
Recommendations for future research (strongly recommended, verging on essential);
Recommendations for practitioner (articulation from research findings into possible creative media project prototype that has been expected)
A final paragraph rounding off your dissertation.
Your conclusion does not need to be very long; few pages is usually sufficient, although detailed recommendations for practice may require more space.
INSTRUCTION
We were tasked to make draft dissertation by Dr. Hayati that includes Acknowledgement, Abstract, Introduction, Literature Review, Methodology, Findings, Discussion, Conclusion, Project recommendation until reference and appendix.
I realized that half of them are mostly done in the second semester and we just needed to refine and add parts that we have written or we have gone through
Since this is the first week, I just took notes on what to do for the next progress. I decided to look back into my previous semester literature review and scanned them one by one. I realized that our next project is going to be taken from the previous semester’s project and how it is going to be more difficult.
the second week, I started writing the literature review part. At first I was really clueless and didn’t know what to change from the previous critical review. I decided to read once more and highlighted the identical parts so I could compare them.
I continued writing my literature review from the parts that I have highlighted. I managed to find lots of details that I missed in the past semester. After I’m done with it, I started my methodology. I tried to explain in detail how and why I chose to distribute the questionnaire. I read the template on how to write the methodology and went through my past paper to find more reference.
The fifth week I was so stressed because I tried to finish my result analysis while figuring out what to put in discussion. After asking my friends and reading through all of my results, I finally decided on what to write. I wrote all of the titles first before writing the body parts.
For week 6 and 7, I just basically finishing the rest and submitted it afterwards.
FEEDBACK
Dr. Hayati reminded me to write the review on what will be discussed in the front part of methodology because first impression is important. She also reminded other students to pay attention to the template when writing the finding results.
REFLECTION
It took me so long to finish this. I'm happy and relieved that I'm done with this and would never want to write anymore. I understand that this helped me in creating essays and practicing my understanding. I started to think more critically compared to last semester thanks to Dr. Hayati's help. Aside from the complains, I noticed the improvement of my reading and writing abilities.
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