Olivia Neville

 Struggling is an understatement  Having just caught up with the module 3 focus zoom which was a week ago i am completely overwhelmed i feel others are much further in the process then myself which has got me panicking, Helen spoke about having themes in our essay this is when i started to panic i have only written my introduction and my literature review. Then i read another M3 blog she says shes been told the literature is not just one block paragraph it needs to be incorporated throughout my essay which i was worried because i thought i would have to start again. Helens advice was to step back and take a breathe, taking a moment to gathering your thoughts together, she said we have all got so much information however in order to place it in the correct ways we need to step back... i found this so helpful because i was tying to write my essay as fast as possible all guns blazing however i found myself stressing out more and more which left me not being able to write anything...

My views on the Academic writing zooms Hello everyone hope everyone's M3 work is coming along nicely  Having just caught up with both the Academic writing zooms i found them both so interesting they were both held by Peter Thomas who made some really interesting point of reflection for myself with writing my essay.  His point which he made about academic writing I found very helpful and interesting they included when you read a piece of text you should pick out the most important parts and highlight them however then you should ask yourself why have I picked out these parts ? why are they important ? which I found interesting because as an author I don't have that mindset , I usually get very overwhelmed and panic about the text then having to reread a few times over so then I feel I understand what this text is about ! Also another good point made when you come across a word in the piece of text that you are reading make sure you look it up and make sure you fully understand ...

 Module 3 - 121 feedback with sam  Wednesday i had a 121 with sam i always find sams tutorials most helpful because he really explains in depth about your answers and is so happy to answer any questions you have.  Bit of detail about my inquiry My question is - How effective are different learning styles to students? i have researched into this question loads and i would like to be able to educate all the younger generation of dancers and maybe also some dance teachers who would like to further their knowledge about different learning techniques that maybe they was not aware about  i have decided the best way to answer my questions was to create a questionnaire which will be aimed at dancers in particular, to get one perspective .I did draft questions for my questionnaire three times to get them correct which was very frustrating, my feedback from sam was they were good questions however I needed to make them open questions rather then closed questions, also my wordi...

 Thursday 29th April  Hey guys  what a module? anyone else feel this? we are so nearly finished this module 2 its nearly the final hand in date not long now thank god! Hope everyone is feeling ok with module 2. I must admit i am feeling so much better now that this modue is coming to an end i final feel set on all my work however i am still going with correction but also i have forgot to fill in the consent form, need to get on with it haha.  some tips Sam gave me was make sure you have a reasonable amount of literature it is OK for dates to be like 2013 but it would be helpful to have some literature up to date so current literature so it correlates with your chosen research question also  i have found that comment most helpful. Sam also said make sure you don just use articles to use books and blogs, make sure you can gather as much information as possible then you will have a stronger data collection. were nearly there girls and guys lets keep going and smash...

April 15th   Hey guys  i dont know about all of you but i am starting to feel ok with this module 2 although i am finding overwhelming their are still lots of different part to this module that i keep forgetting about there is so much paperwork also who is struggling with their more forms i am struggling to answer the question for the form , the group discussion with Helen was so helpful that really did help me out i felt much better after that. i am so unsure about filling in all these form for example it says if your doing a questionnaire you dont need any type of consent. so do i not have to tick certain boxes on the more forms maybe i idid just leave it too last minute  I have written my literture review now but i do feel that i have written  loads of waffle does anyone else feel like this? also i am struggling to find liteture and focus and actually read all of the books and articles anyone else ? how is everyone getting on with their work Olivia 

 March 25th  Hey guys  does anyone have their final question yet? im still playing with different ways of wording my question there are so many aspects that i would like to cover its hard to do this when you only have one main question anyone else find this ? Also has anyone decided what they are doing to gather information is anyone doing a questionnaire, interviews, i am planning to do two different i am  thinking a questionnaire and my ages where i will send it to is 16-18,18,21 then for my interviews i was thinking to interview dance teachers then i will get two different perspectives which will broaden my information intake and i can go into much more detail with two sides What do we think does it sound like i am going in the right direction? Hope you enjoyed  Olivia