Dear List Members
We are setting up a 3 year rolling seminar program to run alongside
and enhance our doctoral program in Innovation Design Engineering at
London's Royal College of Art, and would like to invite your help.
Outline
We plan 6 seminars per year. One is left open, for response to
student requests. The one at the start of each year is repeated: it's
the getting back together and meeting the new candidates session.
That leaves 4 other seminars per year.
We will be building a reading/pre-study list for these seminars. Like
each of us, our views, and consequently what each of us values, is
different to the views of others. We are not interested to promote a
particular view, but rather a catholic collection of differing views
for the students to discuss, under each seminar heading. One point of
the seminars is to develop the ability to discuss and argue properly.
Help
We would like to invite your help in gradually creating this reading
list. About a month before each seminar we will invite list members
to suggest good readings. We are looking for a liberal interpretation
of the theme so we would like to include contextual material as well.
The forthcoming seminar has 2 topics:
Writing a thesis (how to do it)
What constitutes and argument, and how to make one
There are 3 restrictions we wish to propose for suggestions:
1) In order that students may read the material, items should not be
too long. We would like to place a length guide of up to about 5000
words.
2) Items should be available online without charge; or we invite you
to send a copy in pdf format. In either case, please send a url for
web access and referencing.
3) We ask for not more than 1 suggested item per correspondent per
topic. We want to get a wide range, and to get really personally
valued suggestions (the choice of which is, in a sense, a portrait of
you). We don't want to overload the students. Accordingly, we will
not consider messages suggesting more than 2 papers per topic.
Multiple messages from the same correspondent will be treated as one.
We notice a tendency on this list to make enormous and unfocussed
suggestions which seem to us to be counter-productive.
We hope very much that members of this list will feel enabled to help
and thank you in advance for any help you offer us.
Yours sincerely,
Ranulph Glanville
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