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Revisjonen fra 3. sep. 2015 kl. 15:36
Micro-writing exercise with Master student
I conducted a micro-writing exercise with a Master student (X) after our weekly meeting. I told X that I was going to give her a writing exercise that may help us (me and her) get a grip on her understanding of fundamental themes in her study area. I also invited a post-doc (Y) who is helping me to supervise X to participate in the exercise.
First, I asked X and Y to do a practice round on a general subject.
I asked them to
1) Write without stopping for 2.5 minutes on “everything you know about the color yellow”.
2) Then I asked them to summarize what they wrote in (1) in one sentence
3) Next I asked them to turn that sentence in (2) into a question
4) Last I asked them to write a couple more questions based on what they wrote in (1) they would like the answer to.
We had lots of giggles in this round and they were ready for the real exercise. I asked them to go through the same exercise again, except I substituted “yellow” in (1) with a general term in our field of study, let’s call it FR and asked them to go through the same exercise.
My observations were that
1) X thought the exercise was very useful when she had to write about FR
2) I found out what X knew about FR and was glad that she managed to hit the crux of the matter in 2.5 minutes.
3) X generated a very good research question in (4) which I have not observed her do so quickly before (she has been my student for 1 year now)
X and I decided we will do such an exercise on different themes related to her thesis every week to generate research questions (a very important skill in my field). She also thought it was fun (which I think is very important).
Interestingly, Y, a postdoc, who knows a lot about FR had difficulties writing about it associatively, despite not having any problems with “yellow”. This may mean that other techniques (or perhaps just practice) may be required to “release” performance stress.
Lee Hsiang Liow
