Thursday, 25 November 2021

PRESENTATION OF WRITTEN WORK

 

As a guide, please adhere to the following in terms of presentation of essays. For more detailed understanding of academic protocal, learning more about citation and referencing and general conventions of academic writing PLEASE do use the Academic Writing Centre (online) and/or contact the Learning Enhancement Team as outlined in Peter Thomas's sessions earlier in the term.


Presentation of Essays

 

Guidelines

 

 

Essays should be typed, 1.5 or double spaced. 

 

Please justify the margins on both sides. Fonts: use Arial, font size 12. 

 

The first page of your essay should include at the top; 

-       your name

-       student number and link to your blog

-       year and term of study (ie: autumn 2021-22)

-       module title and code

-       module tutor

-       full title of assignment

-       date written 

-       final word count (this excludes your cover page bibliography and any appendices but does include all in-text citations)

 

 

 

Please do not use bold type or underlining in your essay, but italicize any foreign words as well as book titles and titles of choreographic works, plays or films.

 

For direct quotes in your essay use single quotation marks ‘…….’ followed by a full citation (author, year, pg). Please do not italicize quotes.

 

For quotes of 3 lines or longer please indent the whole quote and citation from the body of the essay text (1cm margins on both sides).

 

 

References in bibliography: NOTE ALL SUBMISSIONS MUST INCLUDE A BIBLIOGRAPHY

 

A bibliography is a list of all source material you have used, whether or not you have quoted from it. It is important to show that you have extended your knowledge by referring to other texts/works. A bibliography should be presented in alphabetical order of author’s surname. There are various ways of setting out a bibliography, but the details should always include:

 

Book:

Surname, Initial(s). Date of publication. Title in italics. Place of Publication: Publisher.

 

ie:

Fraleigh, S.H. 1996. Dance and the lived body: A descriptive aesthetics. USA: University of Pittsburgh Press.

 

 

Edited book:

Surname, Initial(s). (ed.). Date of publication. Title in italics. Place: Publisher.

 

ie:

Fraleigh, S. ed., 2015. Moving consciously: somatic transformations through dance,

yoga, and touch. University of Illinois Press.

 

Book chapter:

Surname, Initial(s). Date. Chapter title. In Name of editor (ed.), Book Title. Place of Publication: Publisher, pages in book.

 

For example:

Akinleye, A. and Kindred H. 2018. In-the-between-ness: Decolonising and Re-inhabiting our dancing. In Akinleye, A. (ed)., Narratives of Black British Dance: embodied practices. London: Palgrave, chapter 6

 

Journal articles:

Surname, Initial(s). Date. Title of article. Title of journal volume (issue no.), page numbers.

 

ie:

Nelson,L. 2006. ‘Fragment of a tuning run’, Contact Quarterly, vol.39. no.1

 

Videography / DVDs (a list of videos /DVDs you have used):

Name of choreographer. Date of work. Title of work in italics. [DVD/video, etc]. Place of distribution, distributing company.

 

ie:

Khan, A. and Cherkaoui, S.L. 2008. Zero Degrees [DVD]. Sadler’s Wells on Screen. Axiom Films International Limited.

 

Media broadcast, e.g. television programme

Title. Year. Type of media. Originator (e.g. channel). Exact date and time of broadcast.

ie:

TEDTalks. 2018. https://www.ted.com/talks. TED conference Boston July 2002

 

Live performance:

Choreographer. Year of premiere. Title in italics. Company (optional). [Location. Date seen].

 

ie:

Morris, M. 2018. Layla and Majnun. [Sadler’s Wells Theatre, London. 8 November 2018].

 

 


Monday, 22 November 2021

Open Discussion Groups

This week we have our last zoom sessions of the term - these will be Open Discussion Groups facilitated by us as a Programme Team, but really space for you all to reflect on and share your learning experiences of the term, of the programme - 

 

Module Threes this will be great practice for you to share with others your BAPP journeys and valuable to all as you all write a short reflection of your learning at the end of each module. 

Open Discussions are a great opportunitiy for those in Module One to ask questions and advice from those in Module two, Module twos to ask questions of and listen to the experiences of those in Module Three and so on, so a real space for sharing and exchange this week.

 

Sessions run 8am (UK) and 8pm (UK on Wednesday Nov 24th. Come along to one or both sessions, the conversations will be different each time.

Friday, 19 November 2021

Professional practice, patience and respect

 

A note to remind you please to exercise professional behaviour in your communications with and expectations of your supervisiors role at this point in term.


Please respect that your draft of work is not the only draft we are working with in this period. Please do not send a draft of work and book a supervision to discuss that draft within the same week, this applies to sending work in on Friday and booking a supervision for the Monday following the weekend - this is not an appropriate expectation.

The dates for draft work to be submitted are scheduled to allow time for your supervisor to read, comment and respond, have discussions of your work in time for you to still develop the work for final submission at the end of the term.

As you know, this is not a process of receiving feedback, re-working the draft and re-submitting it for more feedback before submission so please do be patient, you will receive feedback in time to develop the work further. Please do not send further drafts to your supervisior after feedback - note: reading through your next draft of an essay during a supervision is also not appropriate.

This is not to be mean or tight with time, it is a pedagogy of practice developed through these programmes to encourage independent leanring and your own autonomy over the work you produce. Think about how you develop your own critical thinking - ask questions in order to grow further in your work, rather than ask someone else to tell you if it is 'right'!!




Thursday, 18 November 2021

Race Equality Charter Student Survey

 

Urging you all to take a moment to take part in this survey of race equality through  Middlesex University:

Message below from Professor Kurt Barling


Dear student,

 

The University has set out on a path to understand race equality at Middlesex and what this means in reality to students and staff.

 

When Revd. Jesse Jackson stood as a Democratic Presidential Nominee in 1984 he opened the door to a future President Barack Obama.  Our actions today can change the destiny of our community.  When Revd. Jackson came to Middlesex in 2013 he said that As in learning and Fs in living, is a bad mark”!

 

 https://vimeo.com/638757053

Rev. Jesse Jackson_AtoF

 

Click on the play icon above or click on the link to play:  https://vimeo.com/638757053

 

The recent staff race equality survey had a fantastic response rate and we are hoping that MDX students will want to contribute to this conversation too by completing this brief 15-20 minute survey accessed from this link:


 

https://mdxl.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_cGCoVOWkKxKTMZ8

 

The Survey is open for you to complete now and will have a huge impact on how we understand race equality perspectives amongst Middlesex students.  All the data collected in this survey is anonymous.

 

Please do take the time to complete the REC Student Survey.  If, in addition, you would like to be part of one of the REC Student Focus Groups or be individually interviewed, to extend the REC Teams knowledge with your insights, do get in touch with us at rec@mdx.ac.uk.

 

Many thanks for your support towards this important university work.

 

 

Professor Kurt Barling

Professor of Journalism

Race Equality Charter Self-Assessment Team