User:Charlie/Thesis Outline
Thesis Outline
✧ Drafts✧
Thesis Outline Draft #1 - 02 Oct. 2025
✼ Chapter Outline ✼
- Introduction
- Key Issue 1
- Key Issue 2
- Key Issue 3
- Conclusion
✼ Draft Text ✼
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✼ Feedback ✼
*Medium fast track*
Researching:
- Preliminary research and selection: ~ 1-2 weeks
- Research into selected superstitions + draft/sketch: ~ 1-2 weeks
- Contemporary example research: ~ 1- 2 weeks
- Draft texts: ~ 2 weeks
Making:
- Illustrate: ~ 2-3 weeks
- Write about research: ~ 2-3 weeks
- Put together publication: ~ 1 week
Total: ~ 2-3 months
✼ Why do you want to make it?✼
What draws me to this project is my ongoing fascination for the social-cultural narratives and their implications that contain elements of superstition and/or supernatural belief. Knowing that many superstitions originated in contexts and for reasons that are largely forgotten today, yet the superstitions remain anchored in our collective consciousness (whether one believes in them or not). Where and/or from whom do superstitions or supernatural beliefs come from? What does it take for a narrative, a story or the seed of a new belief to become part of a greater belief (system) and/or common consciousness within a culture/society? What are its advantages and disadvantages? Etc..
✼ Who can help you and how?✼
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✼ Relation to previous practice✼
- Storytelling & Narratives
- Symbolism & Folklore
- Speculative Fiction
✼ Relation to a larger context✼
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✼ References/bibliography✼
- Vyse, S. (1997) 'Believing in Magic - The Psychology of Superstition', Oxford University Press
- Mandal, F.B. (2018) 'Superstitions: A Culturally Transmitted Human Behavior', International Journal of Psychology and Behavioral Sciences
- Fradera, A. (2016) 'The everyday magic of superstition', Society's Research Digest
- 'Magical Thinking', Wikipedia.com
➸ Rapid prototypes
#1 Prototype:
- Choose a superstition and research its origin
- Illustrate it
#2 Prototype:
- Choose a superstition and research its origin
- Illustrate it
#3 Prototype:
- Choose a prior superstition and create a speculative superstition based on it
- Illustrate it
Exercise Draft #2
✧ Work out a PMOMM into a Graduate Proposal format ✧
✼ What is it? ✼
✼ Why make it? ✼
✼ Workflow ✼
✼ Timetable ✼
✼ Previous practice ✼
✼ Relation to a wider context ✼
✼ Personal Reader ✼
➸ Rapid prototypes