COP Pre-submission brieifing - (use as guidelines for blogs and Design boards)

Knowledge & Understanding - 6A1: Demonstrate an independent critical understanding of the aesthetic, cultural, historical, technological, social, political, or other contexts relevant to individual subject disciplines. - - critiquing the things reading - identifying problematic areas in work that exists + own work that relates to where the practical project is situated (acknowledging areas that don't quite fit/work potentially) 

Knowledge & Understanding - 6A4: Demonstrate a critical understanding of the synthesis between the theoretical and practical contexts of their own creative concerns. - critiquing how your practical works implements the theories within essay, always refer back to discussions within essay and how they are contextualized through practical work 

Cognitive Skills  - 6B1: Evidence the ability to use logic, reasoning and critical judgement to analyse ideas from a range of primary and secondary sources, and employ critical and theoretical methodologies to evaluate examples from the relevant subject discipline. - Evidence that am solving problems as they arrive, things that you expected to wor but didn't and how worked around this. How we use the process to understand the information being gathered. Evidence that you understand the types of research used in the project. 

Practical & Professional Skills - 6C1: Evidence the capacity for undertaking a wide range of independent practical and theoretical research that demonstrates an informed application of critical, effective and testable processes. - secondary research sense - how have i gathered images, how do I know they are legitimate - how have i reference them and used them i.e. journal writing can seem subjective and sometimes divulges into story almost - how have used other sources to back up these points. 

Key Transferable Skills - 6D1: Organise, plan and effectively manage self-directed projects and  communicate outcomes through written and other appropriate forms. - show evidence of timetabling and time management throughout the project. 

• Design boards need to be formal and explicit in the description of the progression of the project. 

Submission (all digital)

5000 word essay – PDF

Design boards – PDF

Blog – submission sheet

Project statement – PDF

Evidence parts on your blog.

The submission will be digital via Google Forms. Helen will send you all detailed instructions about how to submit your work. 

The link for the submission will also be in e-studio. You can submit up to 5 files (up to 1GB each). This is enough space for each of the submission elements and 1 space if needed.

Essay 

Sections

• Title page (Essay title, Name, total word count (inc quotes, not
• including reference list, appendix, etc.)
• List of illustrations
• Introduction
• Main text (appropriate title or use
• of subheadings if necessary)
• Conclusion
• Reference list (i.e. biblio)
• Images (images, figure numbers, captions)

For the 'list of illustrations' - list the references to images here i.e.

Design Boards (suggestion)

1. Brief – Analysis of the brief. What did you need to consider at the beginning

of the project.

2. Research 1 – Visual research. What did you find? Why is it important?

3. Research 2 – Theoretical/contextual research. What aspects of your

theoretical research are particularly important and why?

4. Initial ideas – Samples of your initial ideas. What concepts, layouts, etc did

you explore in the beginning and why?

5. Developments – Which ideas did you develop further? How did you refine

these ideas? What processes did you use and why?

6. Final outcomes – Appropriate presentation of your final outcomes with a

critical appraisal of the work.

Video content? Include a screenshot of your video/gif on

design board and a clear link to the blog post where it can

be found – address and hyperlink.

Project statement

Include your ethics statement at the beginning of your project

statement. This should outline any ethical considerations you have made for

your CoP project both in terms of design ethics and research ethics.

Your project statement should offer a critical appraisal of your whole CoP

project. You should give us an overview of each of the two parts. This should

be evaluative whereby you discuss any problematic areas of your work. You

should then explicitly explain how the two parts are related demonstrating

your understanding of the synthesis of theory and practice.