OUGD601. COP3. Lecture 3: Resolving your Research Project and Academic Conventions.

we had the third and final cop3 lecture with richard outlining the specifics of the dissertation and hand in etc. he began with an interesting introduction presented in the general style one would expect to see at the start of a dissertation.

1. Introduction

In this lecture I wish to look at a not uncommon way 

of writing and structuring books, dissertations and 

theses. This approach, I will argue, involves the 

writer announcing at the outset what he or she will 

be doing in the pages that follow. The default format 

of academic research papers and textbooks, it serves 

the dual purpose of enabling the reader to skip to the 

bits that are of particular interest and - in keeping 

with the prerogatives of scholarship - preventing an 

authorial personality from intruding on the material 

being presented. But what happens when this 

basically plodding method seeps so deeply into a 

writer's makeup as to constitute a neutralisation of 

authorial voice, a limitation, a faux-objectivity?

i took notes on the lecture as it included some important information

the lecture was interesting and really well presented however it was also very daunting!!!