the proposal

Forgot to blog the day i finally submitted my full thesis proposal. I was able to submit it right on time -not. There were too many stuff going on back then (and until today I'm on the process of finishing all needed requirements for the semester). So here goes my tentative research title. Hopefully it will pass the fires of scrutiny and reach publication and the next National Communication Research Student Conference.

my weird rocket ship-looking conceptual framework

chapters 1&2 (thank Heavens), sent!

statement of the problem tweak

how can metaphors of science concepts within stories in children's picture books with health themes help in spreading the public understanding of science?

giddy UFO at large

Seems like the more i read, and the more i know, the more confused i get --realizing that i need to know more. -___- makes me sing this song.

Lord I don't know which way I am going
Which way the river's going to flow
It just seems that upstream I keep rowing
Still got such a long way to go
Still got such a long way to go

-Coldplay, U.F.O

trial titles

le ambitious tweet

i've been doing this since the first day of class even though my study is not yet done. i don't know, *ambitious intent cannot be hidden* i guess.

here are some of my trial titles. they're not very awesome... yet. :)

first try: Critical Analysis of Mga kwento ni Tito Dok series: Children's storybooks with medical themes as science education literature/ health communication tools

second try: Critical Analysis of metaphors for science used within narratives in children's storybooks with health themes

third: Science and technology in children's storybooks: A critical analysis of science metaphors of health diseases and the human body

Oh! it's raining again.

12:39,
Dana

metaphor analysis

a few days ago, found journals discussing "metaphor analysis" and "systematic metaphor analysis" and it's procedures. Most authors recommend using a combination of qualitative and quantitative approaches to metaphor analysis (see notecard).

i guess this will be perfect since i will look for metaphors within stories (see notecard). It was also recommended to use a combination of content analysis and narrative analysis (notecard).

after that, i wanted to find the methodology that i badly needed! (see another notecard tweet) so i moved on to other journals and read about the theory of metaphorsssssssssss...

After lots of sunshines and sunsets... found the "systematic metaphor analysis" (yay!) there were other methodologies for metaphor analysis but i guess i won't blog about them for the mean time.

I kind of tried to outline the procedure. But i did not create a full outline (because my brain suddenly went soup-like and it wouldn't function -that fraction of a second of wonderful derp-ness.)

So here goes the procedure outline

Systematic Metaphor Analysis (Schmitt, 2005)

Subjectivity and Method I: Procedure

1. Identifying the target area for metaphor analysis
2. Unsystematic, broad-based collection of background metaphors
3. Systematic analysis of a sub-group
     (a) Identification of metaphors and deconstructive segmentation of the texts
     (b) Synthesis of collective metaphorical models

Subjectivity and Method II: Interpretations

1. The Comparison of Metaphorical Concepts
2. Implicit Sub-Division and Values
3. Metaphorical Resources
4. Limits to the Use of Metaphor
5. Actions Motivated by Metaphors
6. Conflicts Between Metaphorical Models
7. The Absence of Metaphorical Models

my brain is soup but i'm happy :)

10:50,
Dana