Apply the principles you have learned regarding research methods in module 1.3.

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Apply the principles you have learned regarding research methods in module 1.3. Design a hypothetical research project by determining the question you are seeking to answer. This question can be about anything regarding the development of humans. Be sure you choose your strategy of experimental or correlational. You will need to define your independent and dependent variable, and then how you will measure the study. What ethical considerations will you need to follow in your study. Lastly, what is the outcome you might hope to see? One thing I've been puzzled by in recent years is what makes someone an artist or how someone develops skills for art. This is something that's on my mind because I have a friend that can produce art naturally while I have difficulty being creative in this way. I suppose the question i would like to ask is What enables us to be creative to reproduce images? My friend is able to take any object in the room and can somewhat replicate it in a drawing or painting and one can see the relation between the picture and the object. On the other hand, I tend to see everything very 2 dimensional and flat when i try to reproduce anything. For instance, I decided to ask my friend to draw what he imagined when i asked about two simple objects. A tree and a house. My artistic friend was able to draw a house that involved a walkway, a front porch, a chimney with smoke, and so on. When I attempted to draw a house I didn't even realize to draw a door. My house was a square block with a few windows leaving out or not acknowledging any detail. I understand houses are much ore than that but for some unknown reason my art was very simple. At the same time, my friend with the detailed picture did not express any more difficulty with his effort but was much more creative. We both made our picture in the same amount of time only using about five minutes. My friend has trouble understanding why i have difficulty producing detail and I am impressed with his imagination. I also want to add that with the same friend, he is amazed and has trouble understanding how good I am with words. He has read things that I've written and has said he has trouble expressing his feelings in words the way i can. I have asked a few friends to attempt this and I have found that my friends, male or female, that are good writers have trouble producing detailed artwork while my friends that can draw detailed artwork usually do worse grammatically. I suppose this would fall under experimental research since i found the result to discover casual relationships between the various factors (Feldman, 25). When I started this project, I was only interested how it would turn out, I had no theory as to what would happen. I was more surprised with what I found after asking my friends to take part in my experiment. I also suppose the independent variable represented in this was the object in the picture, the house. I would refer to the detail of the pictures to be the dependent variable in this process. My thought process in measuring the study was that I was hopefully not the only person having difficulty drawing a house. While I was conducting this experiment i found that it didn't really involve any ethics as it was very simple and only took my friends a few minutes to do. In all honesty, I have still not come up with a complete outcome to my study, but I would hope the most to find someone that can both draw with detail and deliver a well written essay with little grammatical error. Everyone I have come across so far tends to be far better at one thing as opposed to the other. Apply the principles you have learned regarding research methods in module 1.3. Design a hypothetical research project by determining the question you are seeking to answer. This question can be about anything regarding the development of humans. Be sure you choose your strategy of experimental or correlational. You will need to define your independent and dependent variable, and then how you will measure the study. What ethical considerations will you need to follow in your study. Lastly, what is the outcome you might hope to see? One thing I've been puzzled by in recent years is what makes someone an artist or how someone develops skills for art. This is something that's on my mind because I have a friend that can produce art naturally while I have difficulty being creative in this way. I suppose the question i would like to ask is What enables us to be creative to reproduce images? My friend is able to take any object in the room and can somewhat replicate it in a drawing or painting and one can see the relation between the picture and the object. On the other hand, I tend to see everything very 2 dimensional and flat when i try to reproduce anything. For instance, I decided to ask my friend to draw what he imagined when i asked about two simple objects. A tree and a house. My artistic friend was able to draw a house that involved a walkway, a front porch, a chimney with smoke, and so on. When I attempted to draw a house I didn't even realize to draw a door. My house was a square block with a few windows leaving out or not acknowledging any detail. I understand houses are much ore than that but for some unknown reason my art was very simple. At the same time, my friend with the detailed picture did not express any more difficulty with his effort but was much more creative. We both made our picture in the same amount of time only using about five minutes. My friend has trouble understanding why i have difficulty producing detail and I am impressed with his imagination. I also want to add that with the same friend, he is amazed and has trouble understanding how good I am with words. He has read things that I've written and has said he has trouble expressing his feelings in words the way i can. I have asked a few friends to attempt this and I have found that my friends, male or female, that are good writers have trouble producing detailed artwork while my friends that can draw detailed artwork usually do worse grammatically. I suppose this would fall under experimental research since i found the result to discover casual relationships between the various factors (Feldman, 25). When I started this project, I was only interested how it would turn out, I had no theory as to what would happen. I was more surprised with what I found after asking my friends to take part in my experiment. I also suppose the independent variable represented in this was the object in the picture, the house. I would refer to the detail of the pictures to be the dependent variable in this process. My thought process in measuring the study was that I was hopefully not the only person having difficulty drawing a house. While I was conducting this experiment i found that it didn't really involve any ethics as it was very simple and only took my friends a few minutes to do. In all honesty, I have still not come up with a complete outcome to my study, but I would hope the most to find someone that can both draw with detail and deliver a well written essay with little grammatical error. Everyone I have come across so far tends to be far better at one thing as opposed to the other.

WHAT DO YOU AGREED OR HOW WOULD COMMENT ON THIS PASSAGE?

Explanation / Answer

Note: This response is in UK English, please paste the response to MS Word and you should be able to spot discrepancies easily. You may elaborate the answer based on personal views or your classwork if necessary.

(Answer) Firstly, I would like to point out that I am a writer as well as an artist. Therefore, the response would perhaps be a riddled with a certain sense of penchant. I would suggest that you try to equivocate my response with a person who writes well but cannot illustrate perfectly, with one who draws well but cannot write and lastly, with one who cannot do both with a decent proclivity.

Secondly, I must add that your subject of choice for this assignment is rather like measuring the tangibility of software. It is tricky to determine and therefore its dynamics remain quite a mystery. This is perhaps why we are so enthralled when we see good art. There are times when we may forget to appreciate the beauty of Mona Lisa’s smile simply because we are too focused on the mystery of how DaVinci did it?

This seems to be the case with you and your artist friend. Although you are both appreciative of each other’s work, you are both befuddled by how the other has achieved such a feat when you find it difficult yourself.

Let us assume that you have decided to determine a correlation coefficient for your research method. The challenge here would be to empirically define the issue. I would suggest that you could design a few questionnaires and distribute it amongst your friends. Let the group comprise of individuals with uneven artistic talents.

There are two major traits that an artist generally has. Firstly, they are observant. Your friend was observant about the house that he drew and you are observant when you write about something. I would say that more than anything, an artist should have a good eye, especially, when it comes to spotting something worth being a muse/ subject.

Secondly, an artist is able to focus on what matters. Depending on the piece, the artist would have focused on elements that best convey the message they want. For instance, Anne Frank would not have focused on the beauty of moments but rather the despair she felt so that the reader felt her pain. Michelangelo focused on the transcendent to paint the firmament on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel.

I recommend that you design a questionnaire with that in mind. Be interlocutory about the things they focus on, how they convey themselves when they go through deep emotions and other such aspects. For instance, you may ask:

With such questions, you may determine whether or not an individual is able to express themselves through their work. To take your research a step further, you may have a look at their work if possible and grade their art. You could grade it based on aesthetics, observational skills, and their power to convey their emotions.

It is perhaps these traits that make one an artist. Whether or not the work is actually artistic, is all a matter of taste. That would be a whole different research.

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