Design Research Methodology Assignment 2 / Critical Review

4 May 2023 - 18 May 2023 / Week 5 - Week 7
Leem Sejin / 0362419
Design Research Methodology / Bachelor of Design (Honour) in Creative Media
Assignment 2 - Critical Review

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LECTURE

Week 5

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Critical Review
It is an analysis and evaluation of a book, article, or other medium.

To write a good review, it requires understanding of the material and know how to analyse and
evaluate that material using appropriate criteria.

Before You Read the Article

1. What does the title lead you to expect about the article?
2. Study any sub-headings to understand how the author organised the content.
3. Read the abstract for a summary of the author's arguments.
4. Study the list of references

Points to Consider

1. Who is the intended audience?
2. What is the author's purpose? (eg. survey and summarize research on a topic/ argumentative)
3. Does the author define important terms?
4. Is the information in the article fact or opinion? 
5. What are the author's central arguments or conclusions? ( clearly stated/ supportive evidence)

Writing the critical review

1. prepare an outline

• Choose a statement that expresses the central purpose ; consider the author's intentions and whether or not you think those intentions were successfully realized. 
• Organise your remaining points ; structure, style, or argument.

2. Write the first draft

The review should begin with a complete citation of the article***

First paragraph

• a statement of  write-up/literature
• the author's purpose in writing the article
• comments on how the article relates to other work on the same subject
• information about the author's reputation or authority in the field

Body paragraph

• state the arguments in support of the write-up/literature
• follow the logical development of ideas that mapped out in the outline
• include quotations from the article which illustrate the main ideas

Conclusion

• summarize the review
• restate write-up/literature

3. Revise the first draft

leave the draft for a day or two before revising ***

Checklist

1. grammar and punctuation errors
2. organization, logical development and solid support of your write- up/literature
3. errors in quotations or in references

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INSTRUCTION

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TASK

Week 5

For the first draft, I read 3 articles based on the techniques of the sound design, mainly foley design. I summarize the content of the articles for the first draft. While reading the articles, I used Ipad to highlight and taking down the notes for better understanding.

Fig 1.1 Annotating the article

First draft

Fig 1.2 Critical Review draft 1

Week 6

During the feedback session, I received the suggestion to search for the copyright issues and global market of the music. While searching for the articles, number of them are too deep in law of the copyright and find that it is not related to the creative media. I also searched for different methods of sound design and its effectiveness of reducing the production time. 

These are the final chosen articles for critical review :

Fig 1.3

Week 7

Critical review

Fig 1.4 Final Critical Review

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FEEDBACK

Week 5

No tutorial session due to public holiday (Vesak day)

Week 6

General Feedback :Critical review is not a summary of the articles, we need to think critically while reading, eg ) why is this article not understandable? .Use Mendeley to note down while reading and use Taylors Library also.

Specific Feedback : Search for articles about global market, its content, copyright

Week 7

Specific Feedback : Do not search about composing music, I must focus on cheaper methods of sound production. There are many ways for sound production such as outsourcing.

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REFLECTION

Experience

This assignment took a lot of time to select and read the articles. At first, I read only abstract and predict that the content is relevant to my research, however, as I read, the content is totally unrelated and as a result, I wasted a lot time. I did not have any confident and lost, what keywords to use to find the reference articles. Moreover, writing the review was the most challenging, and faced the language barrier.

Observation

It takes a long time to digest the article as a number of them used examples of the film that I never heard before. So, it was difficult to understand what the writer intended to elaborate about. Also, it was challenging to search directly on the my research topic, budget issues in production. 

Finding

Making the habit of annotating and highlighting while reading the articles are really helpful when I start writing the review. It benefits me to summarize the content, and easier to find the important points.