Harvard Referencing (20/3/2014)

* Having spell checked my work last week, this week I worked on Harvard Referencing and tidying up some of my previous blogs.

I also made sure to add the publisher names for each game I referenced in my Research Project as the lecturer recommended we do so.

Finally, I added the total word count (3,804) to the bottom of my research project (just before the Harvard Referencing) so as to clearly show what should be counted towards to my overall words.

* We were also reminded that we are marked on our research paper, but he will also look at our blog so as to see the process we went through, a 'safety net' if you will, but still only secondary.

Spell checking (13/3/2014)

* As I am basically done with my writing and waiting to spell check it, I decided to look over my work one more time to make sure I was A-ok with the overall research project.

I was also able to ask my lecturer if including headings was ok for an academic level, he said it was. After all, the first thing he does is read the introduction and then the conclusion before reading the rest, that way seeing if the student answered the questions they wanted to answer.

Advice from my lecturer on my introduction (6/3/2014)

* Today my lecturer looked over my introduction and gave me the following advice...

• If I am referring to a book or even website then say so since ‘Ondskapens filosofi’ [The Philosophy of Evil] (2010) by Lars Fr. H. Svendsen confused him. Thus I need to mention that it is a book. 
• Remove words like 'firstly' in order to make it sound more formal.
• Use Wikipedia references, not the sites themselves since those can be edited by anyone. 
• Don't use the 'Free Dictionary, use the Oxford one as it is more academic. 
• Mention the occupations of the people I quote from since these can add to their importance and relevance e.g. scientist, doctor, professor etc.

Overall, the lecturer is really interested it is so far and likes the Western (ideological) and Eastern (mythological) examples of good and evil I have used.

* I then went back over my previous posts from last term and year one in order to see if anything I had originally covered would be relevant to my project. Unfortunately I couldn't find anything relevant.

Next year's dissertation (27/2/2014)

* Today our lecture discussed the 3rd year dissertations that will apparently be due in by January 2015 which, considering when we come back from the summer holidays (end of September) isn't very long. Therefore, it is worth at least thinking about it in advance as it will need to be around 6000 words which is double our current project.

Asking the question, if the 3rd year dissertation has to be related to what we plan to do for our main project, the lecturer said it can, but we shouldn't completely focus on what we think we are going to do until we know clearly, otherwise it may be a waste of our time.

 
* I then carried on writing my research project for the rest of the session as the lecturer said he would check my introduction next week.