Things to do
Upload the slide for your pitch to the Slack site into the Channel labelled: week_7_and_8 To upload a file all you do is drag the file onto the Slack window. Let me know if you have any problems.
The key to a good slide is not to fill it with lots of text. Having a good image that helps you tell your story or introduce the problem is always better.
You should be at the stage of beginning to structure your draft paper. If it is a straight literature review then you should be familiar with the basic structure. If not, check out the examples here.
There is a basic structure: an introduction which may include some definitional work; an account of how you located and then selected the material you worked with; your account of what you found and an analysis of those findings; a conclusion which may suggest further research. If you are in doubt about this basic structure than please ask about it. You should be filling in at least possible dot points for good sections of this by now.
This is also not the time to stop writing in your notebooks. Your process as you work through all of this is important to record and can still help you with your writing.
Weekly discussion
For weeks seven and eight the weekly discussion will be given to the preparation and delivery of your pitch. This will be a two minute presentation to your tutorial group (online for the online group and face-to-face for the mixed mode group, with one slide (max) to use during that time. Basically you need to briefly describe your research project, what you are doing, why it matters and what your research question is. You may also have identified a journal or two that you think will be appropriate for your paper.