Mid-Term Supervisions and Drafts

 A note to draw your attention to the schedule as we approach the mid-term point and spring break.

Mid-Term Supervisions March 22-26

These are a chance to meet with your supervisor to discuss your work to date. 

For module one's this is a great point to have a conversation about your AOLs, essay and diagram.

For module two's you could use this to go through your MORE applications and discuss your literature review for your inquiry proposal.

Module three's it would be great to have conversations around how your data collection has been going and talk about your plans for analysis.

You should book in your mid-term supervision this week in preparation for the week of March 22. If I am your supervisor please book via doodlepoll - my availability for this week is posted there. 

If Adesola is your supervisor please respect that she is on sick leave and not responding to university emails. Please email Sam - s.murray@mdx.ac.uk to arrange a supervision with him for the week of March 22. 

 

Spring Break - March 29 - April 11

Please note there are no supervisions available during this break and emails sent should not expect a response until April 12.

Drafts:
Drafts are intended to initiate a feedback dialogue (verbally via a follow up supervision on skype, OR written via email) with your supervisor, they are not usefully used to ask if things are 'right' or sent with an expectation of receiving corrections, by way of a pre-marking opportunity.

Please do receive feedback as an extended discussion of your work and send a draft with the Feedback Discussion Form, noting the specific questions you have on this draft of work that you would like to initiate a discussion with, asking if it is on the right track is not really opening a conversation and offers little in return.

Often feedback contains prompts for further reading, suggested texts/practitioners to look at, comments regarding the level of critical thinking/analysis in your writing over overly descriptive personal narrative approaches etc.. Feedback comments are not telling you to 'correct' something and re-submit, but more trying to help you to move your thinking and writing on as we see the process of your work developmentally.

With this in mind, when you have received feedback on a draft of work, please take time to read and consider comments made, come back to your supervisor asking to extend the conversation, arrange a skype is you have further thoughts and questions as a result of the feedback, but please not to send a 2nd draft asking if the work is now correct, or continuous re-drafts up until the submission date.

Please take the time to save your work with your name and module number - saving work as 'BAPP' or 'Lit Review' on your own computer might make sense but be mindful that as we receive multiple drafts titled that it is not helpful to know whose work it is!