Tuesday, 30 June 2015
The Class's Investigations
During 3 of our lessons we watched the other groups in my classes own investigations on Power Point as they presented in front of the class, some were longer and more in depth then others however they were all good and I learnt from them all.
What I liked and I think went well in the presentations was when the group done really in depth research, investigating things that wouldn't matter if they were left alone but being researched made the power point more interesting a lead to more evidence on their points and hypotheses.
what I didn't think worked well is when the group would have masses of information that probably all didn't need to be there, I don't think this worked well as everyone stopped really paying attention so therefore you wouldn't really hear the good and interesting information, also too much attention on graphology didn't work too well in the presentations- I admittedly done this.
I don't think I will be picking language change as my investigation asI think its risky as there isn't always that much change over the years so therefore there isn't much for you to write about.
What I liked and I think went well in the presentations was when the group done really in depth research, investigating things that wouldn't matter if they were left alone but being researched made the power point more interesting a lead to more evidence on their points and hypotheses.
what I didn't think worked well is when the group would have masses of information that probably all didn't need to be there, I don't think this worked well as everyone stopped really paying attention so therefore you wouldn't really hear the good and interesting information, also too much attention on graphology didn't work too well in the presentations- I admittedly done this.
I don't think I will be picking language change as my investigation asI think its risky as there isn't always that much change over the years so therefore there isn't much for you to write about.
Sunday, 21 June 2015
Practice Investigation
Over this last week myself and my partner Alex Wickens have been doing a practice investigation, we decided to investigate car adverts, this was probably the hardest out of the selections of adverts to choose from as modern car adverts don't have much writing on so we didn't have a lot to talk about whereas shaving adverts do- which was one of the other options.
An investigation consists of a hypothesis, systematic analysis' ,conclusion and an evaluation. My hypothesis was proven wrong on this investigation so maybe a tip for the real thing would be not to assume all of the documents you are looking at are the same.
Useful websites that I will use in the real thing are the one where you can see how often a word is used through the years which is good when comparing modern and old texts(Ngram). Investigations on texts that have lots to analyse are better in my opinion as you run out of things to talk about on texts such as car adverts.
In my opinion what makes a good investigation is when you go against your hypothesis as this shows you investigated deeply and found alternative information then what you previously thought.
An investigation consists of a hypothesis, systematic analysis' ,conclusion and an evaluation. My hypothesis was proven wrong on this investigation so maybe a tip for the real thing would be not to assume all of the documents you are looking at are the same.
Useful websites that I will use in the real thing are the one where you can see how often a word is used through the years which is good when comparing modern and old texts(Ngram). Investigations on texts that have lots to analyse are better in my opinion as you run out of things to talk about on texts such as car adverts.
In my opinion what makes a good investigation is when you go against your hypothesis as this shows you investigated deeply and found alternative information then what you previously thought.
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