Research Methodologies, Building a research base 2 week 3, 17th October 2013

1. Research Process Seminar:
Building a Research base 2
Term 1. Week 3, 17/10/2013

2. Research Process Seminar:
Building a Research base 2
Term 1. Week 3, 17/10/2013
The aims of this session are:
- to practice how to find suitable research sources
- to discuss how to determine useful source material and how to order your
research archive
By the end of this session:
- you will have practiced different ways to access research sources.
- you will have reflected on how to determine useful source material and
how to order research archive.

3. Research Process Seminar:
Building a Research base 2
Term 1. Week 3, 17/10/2013
SESSION PLAN
-1. Introduction of the session
-2. ACTIVITY 1. Practice: finding useful resources already identified.
- 3. ACTIVITY 2. Identify new (potentially) useful resources.
- 4. HOW TO DETERMINE IF A SOURCE IS USEFUL?
-5. ORDENING YOUR RESEARCH ARCHIVE
-6. Wrap up: questions, doubts and comments

4. Research Process Seminar:
Building a Research base 2
Term 1. Week 3, 17/10/2013
2. ACTIVITY 1. Practice:
finding useful resources already identified.
1.Download Deleuze's article.
2.Find the New York Times article written by Hasan Elahi, 29
Oct. 2011.
3.Go to NTU LIBRARY and write down the NTU classmark
number of Tagg's book.
4.Go to CP2 MODULE GUIDE and identify useful source(s) to
research on Seminar text 1 and 2 core issues.

5. Research Process Seminar:
Building a Research base 2
Term 1. Week 3, 17/10/2013
3. ACTIVITY 2. Practice:
Identify new (potentially) useful resources,
using different methods
- books,
- reference books,
- exhibition catalogues
- magazines or journals,
- encyclopedias (not Wikipedia),
- Newspapers,
- Webpages,
- blogs,
- photographs, films, documentaries, videoworks...

6. NTU library
British library catalogue
Google scholar: http://scholar.google.co.uk/
Module resource list
Other useful resources:
Amazon.co.uk
Ubuweb, http://www.ubu.com/film/
Openculture, http://www.openculture.com/
Videodatabank, http://www.vdb.org/
http://artdesignlibrary.wordpress.com/

7. Research Process Seminar:
Building a Research base 2
Term 1. Week 3, 17/10/2013
4. HOW TO DETERMINE IF A
SOURCE IS USEFUL?
Which methods would you employ?
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10. Research Process Seminar:
Building a Research base 2
Term 1. Week 3, 17/10/2013
4. ORDERING YOUR RESEARCH
ARCHIVE
-Where and how do you keep your
research materials?
-Where and how do you order your
notes?
Physical and digital

11. Seminar: Introduction to academic research
Term 1. Week 2, 10/10/2013
Comments, questions...
Answer Learning Journal questions, p.12