Reflective Journal
Week 13a
Monday 21-12-2020 to Sunday 03-01-2021
Research Paper Thoughts and Notes
I have started to organise my thoughts around my Research Paper. It needs to have a quite specific structure, different to how I usually write up work.
It needs to be a minimum of 500 words, and include the following elements:
- Title (straightforward – “Will the skills that I develop by being a Dungeon Master (DM) for Dungeons and Dragons (D&D) be helpful to me as a Fiction Film/TV Director?”
- Introduction (I need to make this interesting to hook the reader, and to include a clear “thesis statement” which is what I’m going to try to prove or disprove, i.e., that D&D DM skills can help you to be a good Fiction Film/TV Director)
- Methods (this is what I plan on doing and how I will do my researching to find an answer)
- Results (This is the important stuff I find out. I’ve already found out loads of stuff but some of it is more relevant than other bits, I need to just include the relevant bits)
- Discussion/conclusion (Here I use what I’ve found out and I discuss it to help me decide if my thesis statement is correct or incorrect
- References/bibliography (Places I looked for my research)
