Further Modules in
Publishing

Module Number: P65033

Module Leader(s)/Tutors: Dr Jane Potter.

This module happens during Summer time

A Dissertation is really a dynamic, defining and essential component for obtaining the MA degree. It’s a major in-depth analysis of the subject, theme or issue significant to study regarding publishing through original research and extended written work of 15,000 words. It offers an chance to show your enthusiasm for the subject as well as your capability to gather information, to experience a synthesis of findings, apply appropriate insights, theories and models, evaluate critically, argue coherently and produce to some effective conclusion a substantial bit of independent work that has been founded on appropriate primary and secondary research. This module aims to offer you the abilities that you’ll want to handle this essential requirement of the MA course, skills that may also be implemented in concurrent and subsequent Publishing modules.

Research in Publishing encompasses an array of different approaches across several research ‘cultures’. With respect to the subject under analysis, your quest can resemble everything from historic or literary research, through social science inquiry, to the sorts of investigations carried out running a business fields. Publishing researchers therefore have to be versatile and have a diverse range of knowledge of different research environments. This module reviews and appraises the study techniques that are generally used over the Publishing Media fields for example burrowing in archives, performing interviews and surveys, the practicalities of project planning and scheduling, and also the all-important few how to handle data when you are getting it.

The module allows you to ready your Proposal (due in Semester 2), the very first stage of the Dissertation.

The very first semester covers research and academic literacy skills relevant to any or all MA Publishing/MA Digital Publishing students whether or not they plan to to experience a Dissertation or perhaps a Major Project. Indeed, Semester 1 is made to assist you to choose which of those to attempt. Within the second semester, students choosing the Dissertation is going to be offered different classes tailored for their research needs. From the center of the 2nd semester and through the 3rd semester, you’ll have individual supervision conferences together with your allotted supervisor.

Dissertations can cover an array of publishing topics. Some students like to check out historic and cultural topics. Others prefer to check out more sophisticated issues in publishing. Frequently, students base their subject within an section of publishing by which they wish to work, or where they’re already carrying out work experience or internships.

Recent student dissertation titles include:

• twenty-first century Teenage Kicks: The way the Book Writer Can Achieve the Adolescent Male Market inside a New Trend of Popular Culture
• Fighting for Change: The Function of Publishing in United kingdom Non-Governmental Organisations’ (NGOs’) Advocacy Campaigns
• Literary Agents: Gatekeepers or Linguists?
• The Fight for Literary Freedom: Research from the Cultural Results of Censorship

There’s a yearly award which are more publishable Dissertation, offered together with Lightning Source.

Lightning Source creates the winning dissertation like a print-on-demand title, and also the winning Disseration is printed through the Oxford Worldwide Center for Publishing Studies. Winning Dissertations include Rachel Craven’s work E-volution and Revolution . which analyses the significance of Online Marketing for ELT (British Language Teaching) publishers. Rachel’s work links to her subsequent employment: we have spent in marketing at Pearson. she’s now an e-marketeer in the Stationery Office .

Our students will also be very effective within the annual Sue Thomson Foundation Publishing Award. Past winners from Oxford Brookes include Isabel Essery’s focus on publishing in Nigeria, that was subsequently printed as ‘Politics and Publishing in South Africa’ in Logos (17: 3). On her work, Isabel conducted fascinting interviews with Marie Phillip and James Currey, each of whom were active in publishing opposition towards the apartheid regime in Nigeria.

Dissertations allow you to concentrate on a place of publishing that actually fascinates you to definitely build relationships contemporary and/or historic facets of publishing to get hold of experts (both academics and practitioners) inside your field of study and also to situate yourself within the employment market.

Plays a role in: Publishing

Last edited: 14 03 2016