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Nature Scope and Depth of the Highest Degrees: Working Theory, Evidence & ‘Text’

Dr Stephen Wallace Visiting Fellow Graduate School Bournemouth University. Nature Scope and Depth of the Highest Degrees: Working Theory, Evidence & ‘Text’. what it isn't. graduate or UG degree taught trivial insubstantive short term easy fragmentary. what it is. supervised

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Nature Scope and Depth of the Highest Degrees: Working Theory, Evidence & ‘Text’

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  1. Dr Stephen Wallace Visiting Fellow Graduate School Bournemouth University Nature Scope andDepth of the Highest Degrees: Working Theory, Evidence & ‘Text’

  2. what it isn't graduate or UG degree taught trivial insubstantive short term easy fragmentary

  3. what it is supervised independent job of work way finding (bus metaphor) multi demanding

  4. Theory Grand narrative (usu implicit) grand theory, paradigms, governing images disciplinary organised by texts, actors, practices nomothetic causes effects correlates summaries (reviews, meta analyses) idiographic (take care not to stray) narratives descriptions

  5. Boundary Work Field or arena - specialty, trans-disciplinary Title (segments) sub specialty- explicit theory testing petit narrative - How it relates to grand theory axiomatic function

  6. Evidence; anything but evident What counts in the field (lit review) What to privilege (Candidate's tools and tools of allies, includingsupervisors, potential examiners) What is candidate challenging (tools required) What candidate has got, will produce (Candidate's tools in the field) careful of tool war (remember modesty, symmetry)

  7. Textual Structure what is left to be inscribed(from Lit review) what candidate is going to inscribe(thesis) (in your conclusion)what is then indicated to be inscribed(as a result of candidate’s dissertation)

  8. Textual Skeleton (each chapter) Tell them what you are going to tell them Tell them Tell them what you have told them

  9. Text The data how is it presented (conventional language games) Candidate's data whose model/data to use Other inscriptions possibility of using novel or extra-disciplinary media

  10. Useful textual rules adopt disciplinary format (examine successful theses) use conventional language/format (espec biblio) accuracy of evidentiary evaluation and presentation symmetry of evidentiary evaluation and presentation

  11. Special care micro: spelling, punctuation, accuracy meso: sentence structure, grammar, paragraph, labelling, conceptual plasticity, paradox, tautology, acknowledgement, consistency macro: structure, argument/logic, coherence, symmetry, position (non- Whiggish), respect, modesty,

  12. Recent turns Atheoretic turn (eg practice) BUT what are underlying implicit assumptions re practice???? Cannot smuggle theory by stealth (if good examiner) so left with description at best Inter disciplinary work?? Problem of coherence,how to translate across paradigms (depends on currency of language games- easy way to tell is check journal titles) Blended methods - Problem of MTT Problem of methodological adequacy,(tool skill?)

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