CoP Submission Briefing

• Go through the module information and learning outcomes
• Make sure you're hitting these.

Need to evidence you have fulfilled the learning outcomes:
6A1 - show critical understanding of psychology and design principles in relation to publication design.
6A4 - demonstrate through work a critical understanding and synthesis between theory and practical, showing connections (continue to reference research and theory in blog and design boards). Trying to improve what's out there already.
6B1 - What are you doing with research once you get it? Need to analyse it, then what does this lead to? How are you processing the research? Generating different ideas, comparing and contrasting. All about evidencing the process.
6C1 - How you get the information in the first place, theoretical and practical. Are you considering the validity of the sources you're using?
6D1 - How do you present your work? Communication on paper and in person. Need to see evidence of planning, organisation etc. Add in timetables, to do lists, etc. Demonstrate how you worked through the project, how you organised your time.

• Communication can relate to: How well you structure your design boards, how well you communicate the important factors. And how well you structure your points in your argument. CRITICAL is key, reflect, identify problematic areas in your own work and within other people's work.

Essay Format and Layout

• Title page ( Essay title, Name, total word count (inc quotes, not including reference list, appendix, etc.)
• List of illustrations
• Introduction
• Main text
• Conclusion
• Reference list (bibliography)
• Images (with figure numbers and captions)

12pt Arial, 1.5 spacing

Design Board Discussion

How to present? What information will they cover? How much detail? What design considerations?
- Need to make sure they whole thing is concise, no need for excess text!
- Demonstrate essay influence and use references throughout.
- Being critical in a fair way, reflecting the work, where are problem areas that could use more work.

• Brief:
  -Present the brief then analyse it

• Research (2 if needed):
  - Most influential theory from essay, if it impacted practical work
  - Separate visual and theoretical research
  - Visual research
  - Potentially primary research if it relates to practical

• Initial Ideas:
  - Sketches
  - Experiments
  - Concepts
  - Figuring out what to make, different ways of answering the brief
  - Key stages of initial development

• Developments:
  - Key points that drove the development
  - Demonstrate essay influence, use references to show synthesis
  - Variations (evaluations)
  - User research and influence on design choices

• Final outcome/Production (could be a separate page):
  - Outlining choices and how that affects the final product
  - Discuss final product as a whole
  - Presenting work with appraisal
  - When discussing production be specific, if there is no discussion and you just made it then that can stay on blog

• Evaluation (could be on final outcome page):
  - Mention the synthesis
  - How effective
  - Audience considerations
  - If do this board need to evaluate properly, think about audience, get into the meat of the project.

Design considerations:

• Clear, organised layout (use a grid)
• Numbering images to reference in text
• Use the points mentioned above to make it as easy to navigate as possible
• Use typefaces used within the practical, create visual unity

Project Statement:

Begin with ethical statement which summarises any ethical considerations made (even if the statement is 'there are no ethical implications of the project'). In design terms - think about the impact of imagery, in the real world what impact would it have? In research terms - if using human participants what ethical considerations have been made? Getting informed consent, evidence of this, evidence they understand the nature of the project.

Project statement shows critical appraisal of whole cop project, how did it go well, what have you achieved, how have you achieved this, what things did you explore that were really important in the essay, how did the design outcome resolve or comment on the question?

Need an explicit explanation of how your written work relates to practical project, where's the synthesis, where's the relationship.

No more than 1 side of legible A4, can be a short paragraph. Be focused concise and explicit, the better it is at achieving this the better.

Submission

*Essay - PDF
*Design Boards - PDF
Blog - Submission Sheet
*Project Statement - PDF
Evidence all of these * on blog.