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Reflection

We did it! We handed in our last module. I have spent some time going over old journal entries and reflecting on what I have found out about myself over this process. This final module was the most extensive so far. As a process, this has been time consuming, sometimes stressful but ultimately rewarding and a positive experience. I have found it difficult to keep motivated and meet my targets. To help counter this, I implemented a strategy that included realistic target setting through a working diary. This has enabled me to systematically complete the module, improve my organisational skills and has reminded me that through hard work and perseverance, I am able to reach my goals. Exploring different research strategies   encouraged me to analyse myself and help me grow in confidence, realising that I wasn’t searching for an answer but for more enlightening information that lead me to more questions. I decided to take a pragmatic path, dealing with my research in a sensible way wit
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Skype Session Module 3

We have just finished our Skype meeting about analysis and synthesis. Thank you Maria, this was very informative. Thank you everyone for your input on my topic, it was extremely helpful. I'm now going to go away and look at more literature including 'Dancers talking dance' and try to find some patterns to start triangulating data. I intend to use my field work opinions as a bonus and concentrate more on the patterns found in my literature, I will now also start to look at the patterns in the silences, where no literature is found. This was a very interesting topic as I'd never thought that people not talking about something was as eye opening as lots of people talking about the same subject. There was an interesting point made about how different countries perceive audiences and also how audience members in different countries perceive performance. Maybe this is something I can look into. I was pleased to find out that my framework can evolve as my research progr

Module 3

I thought I'd write a little post on my thoughts after my feedback from Module 2. As I await the results from my last module, I was left not feeling all that confident of the things I have achieved so far. My feedback from module 2, left me thinking about what I have learnt so far during this MA journey. The first and main point was that I need to have a bit more confidence in my own abilities, after all, I started this course having never written an essay with references. I am now able to use my past professional experiences and relate and incorporate them into my work. I have written my first ever short literature review and I now enjoy searching for articles and books that relate to my subject and like to hear differences of opinions. I am now able to distinguish between useful points and multiple points that I cannot develop.  I can now formulate my idea into a discussion instead of having lots of ideas that have no depth, so therefore I do not lose my way as much. I feel

Research Proposal....

I thought I'd write a quick blog about preparing my research proposal. I'm finding it quite hard to think of an exact subject to research. I have read many books and articles about how to do a research project and now have a clearer idea of what it is I am trying to achieve. I have many ideas about subjects that I am interested in but its hard to pin point exactly what I want to research. The more I read and the more I look into certain subjects, I am now starting to realise that I don't need to know the exact question right now but to concentrate on finding different articles and scholars that have researched before and my question hopefully will become clear.  Again it comes down to me wanting to know the answers to everything before I have begun! I hope this makes sense to all the other module 2s out there. It would be nice to hear how you are getting on with your proposals and what you are finding out along the way.

The Start of a New Term

Our welcome back Skype meeting on Sunday was very informative and has got me excited for what this new term and module will bring. I am looking forward to getting stuck into module 2 and starting some research. I found the screen sharing and unihub walk through incredibly informative, as I have found the site pretty confusing in the past. I am looking forward to using the online library resources and am also planning to utilise my blog and read others blogs more often this term. Adesola explained that there is a link on her blog page that you can click and you subscribe, so therefore, get an email every time she posts. This is extremely, helpful as I have quite a busy working life and find I miss blog posts quite often. Now I will never miss anything and will be up to date with new announcements and articles. I plan on posting some of the interesting articles I found during Module 1, because hopefully they might benefit other people as much as they did me. Looking forward to chatt

AOLs and reflection, essays galore!

I thought I'd write a post about how I'm finding module one. It was hard to think about what to write for my AOLs at first. Thinking that nothing I have learnt throughout my career was worth writing about. I have since found that I have a lot to say! I am enjoying writing about things I am passionate about and also finding references to back my opinion, I didn't think I'd be able to find people who agree with me! This is exciting, I'm slightly concerned that I have 2 more to write before the deadline and thats without my reflections essay, but I'm finding it's useful to write down my thoughts as I go along and so I feel I have a good basis. I'm learning a lot about myself as this process goes on, what kind of person I am and also how I am perceived by others. I'm enjoying being a student again and learning new skills. I am trying to not get overwhelmed by the amount of work that I still have to do, but again, this is something I will be able to wri

A Busy Couple of weeks.

So it's been a busy couple of weeks for me but I feel it has also been a bit of a learning curve! We had a cast change at 42nd Street. Half of our old cast have left and moved on to other things and we have 22 new members of the company. I have also taken on board an extra understudy responsibility but more about that later. The new cast members all seem so lovely and have fitted in to the 42nd Street family with no fuss at all. We were doubling up, doing rehearsals during the day, for the cast change and still doing the show at night, so it was a tiring time but exciting too. Not surprisingly, this hectic schedule took its toll on the existing cast members which resulted in me having to take on a role in the show, that I don't even cover, one day after the new company's first performance. I played this particular part, the role of Phyllis, for 6 shows and there was a lot of pressure on my shoulders, to do a good job at a part I wasn't supposed to know. I definitely l