During the course of yesterday, we received feedback regarding our A2 - That's the Plan assignment and the areas which could be improved for next time. Apart from forgetting my Production Schedule (which cannot be forgotten next time!), the other areas of improvement were things that with practise during this assignment I will definately improve on.
Last week we were given the topic of Art vs Design for our first of two essays on the A4 - Image Rights assignment, I found that starting this essay was the hardest thing I've had to do on the course so far, getting the right start was important to me as it meant that I could get in the right 'flow' of the assignment and aim for as many words as I could. Sadly, I fell 100 words short of where I wanted to be. But this can always be made up in the second essay, which we've begun today.
This weeks essay is all about Image Compression and the best format to use on images. After choosing two images from a selection of eight, we had to test different compression settings and record our findings ready to answer the question:
Assess how effective industry-standard image compression schemes are on a range of bitmap images. Describe the pictorial content of each image and then present your qualitative and quantitive findings in an illustrated essay.
For this essay I need to be able to write about 600-700 words, so that I don't exceed the combined word limit of 1,500 for the two essays.
For my A3 - Back to BASIC assignment, a list of 40 computing terms have been given to us which we need to research and write around 50 words for each, specifically aimed at 'silver surfers' without sounding patronising. Therefore, my main content will be around 2000 words. My project goals are a lot better than the ones I did last time and they are a lot more measurable.
My time planning for the rest of this week includes:
- Begin and hopefully complete essay #2, with no more than 1,500 combined with #1.
- Research the 40 terms given to us and write 50 words about each one.
- Collect images relating to the terms provided from free sites or gain copyright permission for non open-source images.
- Complete delivery requirements and competitive analysis on A3.
Thanks for reading.
Sue
4 comments:
Have you thought about developing a questionnaire to gather both Qualitative and Quantitative feedback?
This link will give you the difference between Qualitative and Quantitative analysis.
http://bowland-files.lancs.ac.uk/monkey/ihe/linguistics/corpus3/3qual.htm
In short - just remember:
In quantitative research you classify features (statistical). Constructing a statistical question that allows you count results, in an attempt to explain what is observed. However, the aim of qualitative analysis is a complete a (detailed description).
Don’t underestimate the amount of time it takes to write the content – this caught a lot of us out last year. When you factor in the research time and writing time it adds up to being quite a few hours – you could easily fill 8 hours with it.
As for the image compression essay you may want to cut it into small parts to make it a bit more manageable. First, ‘describe the pictorial content’ which includes what range of colours it has, as well as the composition of the image. Secondly, you’ll need to reference the data and illustrations you have collected and analyse it, before thirdly providing some overall evaluation, which will probably appear at the end.
Putting together some kind of essay plan would probably be best to do after collecting the data from the images. This way, you can outline the key points early on, then the essay should almost write itself.
I think julian's comments are very valid about the essay. This will be very useful for when I'm writing mine. Thank you.
It gives me some indication of how to set it out.
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