Feedback on your work!

Dears,


Every single one of you who handed in work has gotten an email from me with feedback, comments etc.. all in a word file attachment! If you did not look into the system you can find your mark in the email body.
I used your uni-graz email addresses! Go look there!

I collected for you a list of the most common mistakes and ope that you will read through it:


Most common mistakes in your papers:

Writing style:
We: If you are using „we“ you should tell the reader who you mean by "we". „We“ is stronger than I and implies that you speak for the whole academic community, which you don’t.

No slang, or sloppy language. Try to express yourself with short clear sentences. Sometimes it makes sense to start a sentence with the last phrase…

Obsolete words/do not use often: However, Anyway, more or less…


Some of you use the phrase "Now let’s start with...". I would suggest you try something like: "This next section of my paper contains general remarks on..." sound a bit more boring but also straight forward.

Spelling Mistakes
Some words sound alike but are spelled differently, check the dictionary for their meaning: f.e. roll & role

I often found the spelly: this instead of these

Academic writing and citing:
not a good academic literature? you can try to find the source by googeling the title, I if you find something in the web, try to figure out if there is a book written by the same author and if this author is working as a researcher, that helps to decide if the source is reliable.

If there is no name and date, be suspicious that this is not a good academic source!

Please check our Harvard rules for citing urls. No http (url in the body of your written work. Just the name of the author and the year. If this info is not available: be suspicious!

No first names when quoting (direct or indirect):
Bad: Irvine Goffman (1969) came to the conclusion...
Good: Goffman (1969) came to the conclusion...

be accurate whose opinion it is: yours? the authors? If it is yours, add: I think that... If it is the authors’ add: AUTHOR (DATE, P. XY) says...


A good example for indirect citing from one of your colleagues’ paper:

Authoritative parents are warm-hearted, alert and pay attention to the needs of their children. They have a close relationship with their child and, at the same time, exercise a right-minded control. Step by step, the child is raised to autonomy, self-control and stamina (cf. Berk 2004, p. 362).

Do not use footnotes unless your lecturer wants you to in future papers.

Using wikipedia:
Wikipedia is not an academic source you can use. You can find hints there to then go to the library and research for proper readings.

Choosing a topic, getting it straight
Some of you had troubles to get all these great topics and idea into one context. Try to bring your ideas together! try to contextualise them. Use questions: What do these themes have in common, who do they have in common, in which situations, where? How can my ideas be integrated in one analytic model.

Bibliography
You NEED to add a bibliography at the end of your paper. A list of references is not enough. The bibliography needs to be in alphabetical order.

Length of the paper
In future try to stick to the word amount. If you are asked to write 2500words do not write 4000! This will train you for future academic but also journalistic writing.


How interesting is my topic?
Some of you were a bit insecure with their topics, for example I thought it was a great idea to work on the Gilmore Girls. Young women’s interests often get belittled. Here you have the chance to use a tv program to create an educational analysis! Use it!

A great way to find your mistakes and Germanisms:
Read out aloud one sentence after the other. So you will realise what \sounds’ English and what doesn’t. Improve your English Writing by reading English books, Even novels help!



Hope that helps you to improve!
I wish you lots of success in your future academic studies!
Sol

You rock!

Thanks to all of you for your great effort to make this seminar a creative space!
Well done. You did great!
Your English communication skills improved very much!

Your mark (Note):
Your overall mark consists of:
40% group project
60% individual paper.

2000 words minimum can be send to: sol.haring AT uni-graz.at

Please try to stick with the 2000 words, more written material is not useful since you shall learn to condense and summarise.

Within your 2000 words I expect you to talk about your special theme you chose and put this theme in the context of your group presentation. Tip: 50% should be on theory and literature,. Please refer to literature (direct and indirect quotations using the Harvard System).
50% should be on your group work/project reflection:
Do write on your group process and your experience with media technology you used.

Please check your spelling (read your text carefully before sending it to me)

If you want you can YOUTUBE your multimedia outcomes, check out the youtube.com site to find out how that works! Think of NORMALISING your audio first!

I will be at the Uni Graz till the 16th, till then I can check my snail mailbox (in Sabine Habersack’s office) for DVDs or CDs… but I trust that you can put your works online yourself

Cheers and good bye
Sol

Presentation day 9th January

9th Jan Program

8.30-10.30
group 1 Gilmore Girls Edu
group 2 Group Dynamics
group3 Social Roles in Edu

11-12.30
group 4 Media and Edu
group 5 Co-Education

12.45-13.15
group 6 Music and Edu

13.15-13.30
Seminar wrap up

Your presentations consist of a creative part and a theoretical part.. 10-15 min max, 10 min discussion time
The theoretical part describes the framework of your theme, the literature in educational and social sciences you use...
...please ask if you need advice!
time keeper: Valentin
moderators/chairs: Rebecca and Eva
tech person: Beccy ?

Christkind vs Santa Claus

I know it's a little bit late and I'm also not sure if I may use this blog for my post but anyway...

The IG and STV Pädagogik are partying tomorrow night, as you hopefully already know.
So just for remembering: Santa Clause got caught by the Christkindl and we wanna make a party for that reason.

As it is somewhat a potluck please bring your own Heferl and something to drink and eat, share some good laughs with us and be ready for the midnight special. ^^

hope to see you, Julia

media and education

We have chosen media and education as our topic.
Some subthemes witch we are interested in and we want to talk about are media education in kindergarten and the influence of media on students.
We hope to get a lot of information for our research and we want to make a film out them.

Andrea, Anja, Martin

how to write and cite?

All tools you need for writing a seminar paper can be found in:

Felbinger, Andrea / Mikula, Regina: Der Umgang mit Fachliteratur – Vom forschenden Lesen zur wissenschaftlichen Textproduktion. In: Stigler, Hubert / Reicher, Hannelore (Hg.): Praxisbuch Empirische Sozialforschung in den Erziehungs- und Bildungswissenschaften. Innsbruck 2005a, S. 24-35.

Felbinger, Andrea / Mikula, Regina: Wissenschaftliches Schreiben – Vom Exzerpt zum eigenen Text. In: Stigler, Hubert / Reicher, Hannelore (Hg.): Praxisbuch Empirische Sozialforschung in den Erziehungs- und Bildungswissenschaften. Innsbruck 2005b, S. 43-54.

Holzer, Daniela: Was Sie schon immer über Textverarbeitung wissen wollten! In: Stigler, Hubert / Reicher, Hannelore (Hg.): Praxisbuch Empirische Sozialforschung in den Erziehungs- und Bildungswissenschaften. Innsbruck 2005, S. 66-74.

Mikula, Regina / Felbinger, Andrea: Wissenschaftliche Quellen zitieren. In: Stigler, Hubert / Reicher, Hannelore (Hg.): Praxisbuch Empirische Sozialforschung in den Erziehungs- und Bildungswissenschaften. Innsbruck 2005, S. 55-65.

You might like to try some bibliographical software like EndNote!

coeducation

We picked out the topics feministic theorie and gender studies.
In theory you ask for differences between male and female and in practis an important question is how to deal with co- education.
We want to make a film about male and female behaviour and also the treatment of different genders in school.

Beccy, Manuel, Corinna