Writing

• Please pay close attention to the Argument Plan structure and to the assessment rubric. If some elements of your draft/essay are missing, it is impossible for me to mark them. I was generous because if you have not research question or a hypothesis the number for that row really should be zero.
• Make sure you consider and explain how your research is relevant to the field of design, broadly understood. Make a proposal that can be implemented and claim how it will be of benefit. Then, analyse and prove that it is likely to work. If you find that it might not, it is fine, just explain that this is what you found and reflect this in the title, etc.
• Use editing tools such as ProWritingAid. You all can improve your writing significantly and these tools catch a lot of basic problems. Aim for high readability scores, no grammar problems, no spelling errors.
• Always cite evidence and not just append a reference without letting the reader know why you have included it. Do not expect the reader to look at footnotes or look up references. Make sure your text explains what the reader needs to understand to accept your claims.
• Use one sentence for a research question and one sentence for the hypothesis. This is enough. You can have multiple steps in methods explaining how you will test your hypothesis proposition.
• Make sure the title, the key objective, the research question, and the hypothesis align.
• Include supporting but also disagreeing or critical evidence for your key claims. Ensure you explain how your interpretation stands despite these disagreements.
• Please use the Chicago 17th full note style, not short note and not the author-date version. Fix all metadata and make it compliant with requirements of the style. Only cite and add to Zotero peer-reviewed literature or formal reports. You can simply describe the rest if relevant or link to in a footnote. Remove unnecessary metadata. Now, many references are very messy.
• Aim to show how you integrated the materials of the subject or the additional content that I suggested for your topic. In some cases, it is not clear what you have learned.