BF299 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Institute For Operations Research And The Management Sciences
Document Summary
Narration (story-telling): a way of representing events in time. Stories: the most basic mode we have for understanding ourselves and the world is a universal way of representing human experience chronologically sequencing sevents orders experiences. Narration is the same as stories: chronologically sequencing events orders experiences in time individual and collective lives: biography, autobiography, history, myth. Narration is not the same as stories: chronologically sequencing can order events independently of experience too, time is essential. Analytical schemes are also tools for construction: we can read analytically and compose within the framework of analytic schemes associated with each mode. Understanding the parts of a narrative can help order construction of your own work. Value-conscious research: criterion = standard/measure/yardstick criterion in an academic context demands that we first and independently understand the standard by which we judge, assess, or evaluate things. We do not apply criteria uncritically or dogmatically. Academic research: is self-aware about its own standards of evaluation.
