As part of our introduction to CoP2, we started by looking at contexts: historical, social, technological, cultural and political. In a group we wrote a list of 5 meanings, subjects, places and people associated with each...
The task demonstrated the variety of topics available and threw out some potential ideas etc.
Last year I'll admit that I reeaally hated CoP with a passion. I don't think I understood its purpose or what it was about. I just kept thinking "I'm here to illustrate and draw stuff, not write and Harvard reference". My essay was rubbish and irrelevant.. I actually ended up having no interest in it and it was only on the day before the deadline that I think I actually figured out what I should've done.
I was writing a (bad) analysis of something, instead of an argument. Aka I was just pointing at stuff and saying "look, there's a thing" instead of researching something, writing about opposing arguments and coming up with a conclusion etc.
Honestly I was just happy to have passed and didn't want to think about it ever again.
This year I'm hoping to learn from my mistakes... I'll try to pick a theme that I care about or am interested in and actually research it to the point where I'm forming a valid argument.
I think it's helped that we've been told that it's not necessary to know much about the topic to begin with, and that this opportunity for more research will put us in better stead. Last year I thought we had to know about it already. It just made me feel really dumb.
Also my practical work ended up focusing on something else I didn't care about, and I definitely wasn't proud of the final result.
This year I want to be so much better; brush up on my writing and try to focus on research.
I think that creating practical work alongside the written work, instead of only afterwards, will help me to stay interested and may spark off more ideas.
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