EDCI 598A, 598B, 597 MEd Project
Fall 2017 and Winter 2018
Instructors: Todd Milford and Wolff-Michael Roth (website)
Topics for our Online Meeting & Resources
- The MEd Project
- The three parts of the project: 598A, 598B, 597 (Handout)
- Question and answers
- Searching Databases
- Web of Science
- UVic Libarary
- How to Begin and Complete the Project
- Difference between "Notes" and "Final text" (Do not try to begin writing the final text; many people, students and beginning scholars alike, are stifled. Instead, write notes, as many as possible. When you feel you have written all you can say, then open a new document and compose your essay, cutting and pasting anything useful from your notes.)
- Writing notes, doing outline, moving towards text ,
- numbering successive versions (useful as a form of "audit trail" and as a memory for keeping what you might have cut in some intermediate versions),
- APA heading levels (3.03, p. 62) (Five Levels of Heading and Table Example)
- Writing from outline (3.11, p. 70)
- How to construct the paragraphs that summarize the outline to come below. (Demo of writing the outline into the text)
- APA manual (You should pay particular attention to the following sections from the course textbook. Page and section numbers refer to the APA 6th manual.)
- Literature reviews (p. 10)
- Plagiarism (1.10, p. 15)
- Abstract (2.04, p. 25), Introduction (2.05, p. 27), Method (2.06, p. 29), References (2.11, p. 37)
- Writing clearly (chapter 3)
- Mechanics of style (chapter 4)
- (e.g., Abbreviations, 4.22, p. 106; 4.23, p. 107)
- References
- In-text references (6.11, p. 174 to 6.21, p. 179)
- Reference list (6.22, p. 180, to ) End-of-text references (n-dash, capitalization, italics, [copying references from published source!!!])
- Reference examples (chapter 7, p. 193- [198])
- Strategies for Making the Writing Your Own Do not plagiarize. Being experienced users of research articles, your instructors can "smell" sentences that are not your own.)
- Quotations (6.03, p. 170) Use quotations sparingly,
- Paraphrasing (6.04, p. 171) Do not make authors subjects of statements
- Making a grid containing the results of several studies, then provide an analysis of the grid/table
- Use of tables for analytic purposes, but prose for actually writing it (Example 1: Analytic table)
- Use of table for representational purposes in your thesis (Example 2: Word Table in APA)
- Formatting tables, table layout (5.08, p. 128)
- Relation of table to text (5.10, p. 130)
- Figures (5.21, p. 151; Checklist, 5.30, p. 167)
- Following successful examples (Following successful examples, that is, completed theses, is a good way of approximating what will be a good working draft.)
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