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Manuscript seminar: Building good arguments

In his seminar presentation Salu Ylirisku made a point about creating good arguments. The presentation was based on the specific (perhaps it might be called ‘concept generating’) approach that he is following. The slides can be downloaded here [PDF, 2,5 M].

A Few Web Tools for Research

There are some web based tools that might be quite valuable for handling the research process and material. Here I’ll list some that I’ve found. Please comment and tell us about the tools that you’ve found from the web, or have found especially helpful in your research process.

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Pics from Winter School 2010

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Manuscript seminar: On personal voice by Petra Ahde

Initial questions to the topic are:
1. How to project your personal voice and the personal voice of your data (e.g. people you interviewed) through out your manuscript?
2. How to retain your personal voice or the personalities that your data represents?
3. How to balance these voices and how to deal with the big emotions in your interview data?
4. How to address the people, test subjects in your research? These question arose when done a research using probes?

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Aralis library databases and services for research

Eila Rämö (head of the information services) from the Aralis library was presenting databases available to us through TaiK and Aalto University networks. Aalto has one organization offering all the library services, and changes will [...]

Manuscript seminar: Structuring doctoral thesis (18.1.)

The second manuscript seminar was held on “structuring doctoral thesis” on 18th of Jan. 2010. Different approaches for structuring doctoral thesis, such as allocating chapters, role of cases in structuring, and monograph dissertation versus article-based [...]

Secrets behind succesful paper writing, submission and acceptance by Giulio Jacucci

Writing papers is considered your first and foremost responsibility and obligation as a researcher. To get your paper accepted isn’t easy and deserves further attention. Allow your ideas to fluctuate during the writing process. In [...]

Art from Research at Lapland 11.1.-28.1.2010

Design Connections Doctoral Students’ Art Exhibition at the Valo and Kilo gallery of the University of Lapland 11.1.-28.1.2010.

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Art from Research exhibition 10.-27.11.2009

At the Summer School 2009 Design Connections Doctoral School students were encouraged to work with their research topics in a creative [...]

Graduate School Decisions

The steering group of Design Connections Graduate School has in its meeting 28th September decided to propose the following persons to be chosen for student positions:

- Karthik Acharya
- Krista Kosonen
- Tjhien Liao
- Tatu Marttila

The Academy [...]