A mixed day at class - Hand-in and Presentations

I went to class, full of confidence that I was going to hand-in my Proposal and Literature Review a week early (the way I like to be).  Famous last words. I should not have been so cocky!   Virtually the first thing I found out, was that I had used the wrong referencing system on both submissions.  Pooh! Totally my fault - I had used the Author Date system, as this is what I am familiar with, and totally failed to Read The Instructions - we use the MHRA system.

I was last to give my prevention in class, and fortunately it went very well.  I had structured the presentation around methodology, and covered some of the key points of the literature review.  I had some images that I found very inspirational to talk around, mostly found when I was doing content and object analysis at the Scottish National Galleries.  I had the class falling about with laughter when I described a gender based example of orientational metaphors - "there is something very upright about the process of fathering a child, whereas women are described as falling pregnant!".  I was delighted to be able to say I planned to go to NewYork later this month to conduct object analysis on Judy Chicago's The Dinner Party.

Then I was told my Literature Review was actually meant to be a Contextual Review.  For some reason, I had it in my head that the written submission was a Literature Review, and the Presentation covered the rest of the context.  Wrong!  It is only the written work that gets marked - not the presentation!  So, I left class, feeling a complete fool, needing to do a re-write on the Contextual Review.  Fortuitously I have done all the research and most of the extra writing can be lifted from my presentation notes.

Doing the re-write and bibliography for the contextual review took a whole day's work.  I also made about 20lbs marmalade.  Just the Proposal to alter now.