Idea was 'Contribution to knowledge' was established so long ago,
though, Richard. We've moved on to what kind of knowledge, in my
view. . .way further on.
Graeme
On 20 Jul 2005 at 9:17, Richard Kerridge wrote:
>
> Matthew, Phil, Graeme and everyone,
>
> As I understand it, having attended that Birkbeck event and the one
> at Portsmouth and convened one here at Bath, and also having looked
> at the recently released RAE criteria, the 'research question'
> concept remains essential, but, as Matthew suggests, there is no
> point in defining it in reductive, content-based terms. Unless the
> factual research for the novelproduces genuinely new discoveries
> that would stand alone in academic terms, it will not meet the
> requirement as research defined in this way. But the other helpful
> concept here is 'contribution to knowledge'. A novel could be a new
> contribution to knowledge by being aesthetically and technically
> innovative, or by bringing an established technique to bear on new
> subject-matter. That is, by doing something that novelists have not
> done before. So the trick may be - like everyone else, I'm only
> trying to read the runes - to describe in advance the new thing
that
> you think your novel will do, and then frame a question to which
that
> would be an answer. The research question, in other words, may be
one
> about the way novels work and what novels do: a question about the
> creative process itself that a novel could answer.
>
> Richard
>
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> Some of my colleagues have just brought up the perennial subject of
> the intensive teaching required by creative writing courses. Our
> basic method of delivery is a two-hour workshop per week for each
> tutor group, with the groups preferably no larger than 12 - though
> there are sometimes a few more. Has anyone found a more economical
> method? Does anyone use lectures? I just wanted to get a sense of
how
> other universities are approaching this problem.
>
> Dr Matthew Francis
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