25.11.2022 - 11.12.2022 (Week 13 - Week 15)
Chung Yi Ki / 0345014 /
BDCM
Design Research Dissertation
Assignment 3 / Research for
Article Publication
Lecture
Week 11 / Dissertation into an article
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| Fig 1.1 Difference between dissertations and journal articles Source: Lecture slides |
Journal article is much shorter than dissertation, only selected points and
information are included in an article than in a dissertation. Extract certain
information from dissertation and re-tweak it to fufill the article's format
requirement
Be concise, shorten your original wordings, don't need to emphasise
information further in detail than needed. essential information only.
If you have one research methodology but many questions, you may need to focus
on one only, or all of them, depending on which is best.
Focus on methodology may narrow as well.
Instructions
For this project, we are tasked to convert our dissertation writing to a
journal article. The journal article writing should only focus on a specific
area in the dissertation and it should follow the KREATE journal article
format.
Journal article writing
Fig 1.1 Journal article - Draft 1
Fig 1.2 Journal article - Draft 2
I started by bringing relevant writings from the final dissertation into
the journal article and rephrased sentences where necessary. I first tried
to write the article as a summary of the main findings in the dissertation
but found that it is too long and too much information to fir in a journal
article. So I changed to focus on the utilisation of
exaggeration in animation to create emotional impact in my journal
article, which is the point of my research question 2 in my
dissertation.
After receiving feedbacks from Dr. Hayati, I edited and rewrote the
introduction and problem statement from the dissertation to match the
content of the journal article. I also copy and pasted tables and figures
from the final dissertation into the journal article, and added one new
figure to better describe a point in the article, which is the screenshot
of a frame from Arcane.
Fig 1.3 Journal article - Draft 3
Fig 1.4 Journal article - Draft 4
I then put the writing into the journal article format and wrote the abstract
for the journal article as well as edited introduction and conclusion to be
more complete. Added reference list and appendices. I also made changes to the
content of the tables from the final dissertation to only mention the subjects
stated in the article. I decided to change to only focus on two animated
scenes from the 5 used in the dissertation observational studies as those two
are enough to elaborate my points.
After receiving feedbacks from Dr. Hayati, I put the appendices in a grey box
to provide a visual separation from each other.
Fig 1.5 Journal article - Draft 5
After receiving feedbacks from Dr. Hayati, I made the needed changes to the sentence structure and corrected some grammatical errors according to the comments I received. I also added the Reddit post screenshot from r/animation in the methodology section to better describe the method. I then added in questionnaire respondents’ answers in 3rd paragraph of findings and discussion to provide a clear comparison between the two contrasting views and formatted the reference list with hanging indents. Other than that, I also reduced the line spacing in the tables in Microsoft Word to allow easier reading of the tables, and to avoid using too much unnecessary space. I re-read the article again to make sure all the figures, tables and appendices numberings are correct, and check if there's any overlooked typing mistakes.
Final journal article
Fig 2.1 Final Journal Article
Feedbacks
Week 13
General feedback: Try and look into your research questions and
objectives to determine which area to focus on in your article. Look into
Section 4 and 5 of the dissertation as well, should be able to determine
which area to focus from there. For the methodology section, can
only mention a specific part from that section in the article.
Specific feedback: Need to edit the introduction to match the
article title as exaggeration in animation as a principle, rather than
storytelling. Focus on explaining using exaggeration as a principle to
create emotional impact. Focus on the second research question from the
dissertation in the journal article. It’s a matter of rewording the
writings in the dissertation to have them in line with the journal
article.
Week 14
Specific feedback: Put the appendices in a grey box to
differentiate between different appendices.
Week 15
Specific feedback: Dr. Hayati gave this week’s feedback through Google Doc comments in my journal article - draft 4 file. Some sentence restructuring and grammatical corrections were noted down. I was asked to add a screenshot of the Reddit posts in my methodology section, provide a clear comparison between the two opposing views on semi-realistic and cartoonish character designs in the 3rd paragraph of findings and discussion section, and put hanging indent to the reference list so that it adheres to the APA format.
Reflection
Figuring out what to focus on for my journal article started somewhat
challenging as I first tried to summarise the main points in my dissertation
in the journal article I then realised it won’t work as there is too much
information. So, I relooked with what I have written and found out that I
could focus on discussing the utilisation of exaggeration as a lot of the
points are related to my second research question. Thus, I rewrote my
article and linked the points to be coherent in the discussion of that
topic.
Writing the abstract, introduction and problem statement was somewhat
challenging for me as well since only some points from the dissertation are
relevant, so I needed to figure out how to resentence them to fit the
article. Adhering to the word count limit was also another challenge as I
tend to write longer sentences. But in the end, I managed to include the
things I want to discuss and declare within the journal article requirement.
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