The document discusses exploring mapping as a planning tool for research. It suggests creating an interdisciplinary space to examine key terms and debates in one's field. It also recommends providing opportunities for students to understand how their work relates to the broader discipline. The document discusses using a reflective journal or commonplace book to document ideas, experiences, failures and progress in one's work. It presents these tools as a way to develop research ideas over time through reflection.

1. exploring mapping planning Shannon Mattern, Ph.D. Assistant Professor www.wordsinspace.net

2. “ survey the historical development of the field” “ critically examine some of the key terms presently at the center of debates concerning the defining goals and purpose of the work” in the field “ create a collaborative, explicitly intradisciplinary space within the department to explore the often competing commitments of our discipline and to articulate the stakes (individual, field-wide, institutional, cultural)” of various approaches “ provide students with opportunities to locate themselves and their professional commitments in relationship to the field” Crisco et. al. 369

4. C. Wright Mills: “ A widespread, informal interchange of such reviews of ‘the state of my problems’ among working [researchers] is, I suggest, the only basis for an adequate statement of ‘the leading problems of [the field].’ … . Three kinds of interludes – on problems, methods, theory – ought to come out of the work of [researchers], and lead into it again; they should be shaped by work-in-progress and to some extent guide that work. It is for such interludes that a professional association finds its intellectual reason for being.”

6. Guy Debord, Naked City , 1957; Constant Nieuwenhuys, Symbolische voorstelling van New Babylon , 1969

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23. “ As a [researcher] you have to control this rather elaborate interplay [between past, present, and future; between professional and personal], to capture what you experience and sort it out; only in this way can you hope to use it to guide and test your reflection, and in the process shape yourself as an intellectual craftsman. But how can you do this? One answer is: you must set up a file, which is, I suppose, a sociologist’s way of saying: - keep a journal” (Mills).

24. “… use your experience and relate it directly to various works in progress. By serving as a check on repetitious work, your file also enables you to conserve your energy. It also encourages you to capture ‘fringe-thoughts’: various ideas which may be by-products of everyday life, snatched of conversations overheard on the street, or, for that matter, dreams. Once noted, these may lead to more systematic thinking, as well as lend intellectual relevance to more directed experience. ” (Mills)

25. “ Un der various topics in your file there are ideas, personal notes, excerpts from books, bibliographic items and outlines of projects … . [S]ort all these items into a master file of ‘projects,’ with many subdivisions. The topics, of course, change, sometimes quite frequently. ” “… t he use of the file encouraged expansion of the categories which you use in your thinking. And the way in which these categories change, some being dropped and others being added is an index of your intellectual progress and breadth. ” (Mills)

26. Reflective Journal “‘ off-loading’ device” : “a l low[s] the learner to take stock, evaluate and ‘deposit’ ideas and feelings about the learning experience ” (58) dynamic: “a depository for a range of information in a range of media, which is added to and consulted on a regular basis” (59) Possible Contents: bibliographic database, project glossary, contacts, correspondence, activity log Carole Gray & Julian Malins, Visualizing Research: A Guide to the Research Process in Art and Design (Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2004).

27. Reflective Journal Document the failures Evaluate the pace and progress of your work -- e.g., key incidents, decisions, realizations Brainstorm, think aloud, have insights, make decisions, make changes, ask ‘what if’ questions, make plans for improvement Carole Gray & Julian Malins, Visualizing Research: A Guide to the Research Process in Art and Design (Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2004); http://www.biad.uce.ac.uk/research/rti/riadm/issue1/abstract.htm

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47. “… the multimodal humanist…brings together databases, scholarly tools, networked writing, and peer-to-peer commentary while also leveraging the potential of visual and aural media…” “ She aims to produce work that reconfigures the relationships among author, reader, and technology while investigating the computer simultaneously as a platform, a medium, and a visualization device. She thinks carefully about the relationship of form to content, expression to idea.” (McPherson 120)

48. “ [I]magin[e] what it would be like to immerse yourself in a scholarly argument as you might immerse yourself in a movie or a video game…. [Investigat[e] what happens when scholarship looks and feels differently, requiring new modes of engagement from the reader/user.” We use these media tools “not because the tools are cool or new…or because the audience for our work might be expanded…, but because scholars come to realize that they understand their arguments and their objects of study differently, even better, when they approach them through multiple modalities and emergent and interconnected forms of literacy.” (McPherson 120-1)

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