Creative Practice as Research: Discourse on Methodology Main Menu Contents Introduction The Practitioner Model of Creative Cognition: A Potential Model for Creative Practice-Based Research Model research methods relevant for creative practice-based research projects Application of the Practitioner Model of Creative Cognition Community Discourse: Your Practice Research Models Resources for Conducting and Teaching Practice-Based Research About the Author The Disrupted Journal of Media Practice

Step 5: Write Up Your Findings

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The critical exegesis of a practice-based research project (i.e., the critical analysis) is where you communicate what you’ve learned, and incorporate it into the existing field of research for your topic.

The exegesis of your practice-based research should make an argument based on the insight you gained from doing the practice.  To support your argument, you use all the aspects of research discussed in this document: reflection on the process, textual analysis of your creative work (and possibly of other relevant creative work), and critical theory to support both.

Example: As he conducts textual analysis on his finished stories, he notices that this piece includes a higher number of characters, incorporates more dialogue and shorter sentences and scenes.  He chooses to utilize a comparative linguistic analysis, as well as narratological analysis, to demonstrate how these differences are a result of working in the two different environments. So the critical theory supporting his critical analysis is related to the act of creating the stories, as well as analysing them.

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