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Reading 4

Hello guys and welcome back to my blog. For today's reading we had to continue from the research we were doing last week but thew difference was we had to apply thematic analysis to your resources and group common themes this week.  

 The first thing I did was read all the steps very carefully. I liked how it went into detail in discursive writing as that is something I am very passionate about, I used to have a blog years ago when I would be discursive and discuss manchester united games but I gave that up . I completely agree with the point about supporting your argument with evidence as if you do not how is anyone going to trust that what you said is credible  summaries to me are vital , I sometimes read the summary of an article first and that usually gives me a good outlook on if this article will be worth reading or not.

 today I went and found more resources online which I will add to my matrix. I then broke down my topics into subheadings and planned out a little bit how my sections will look when they are written obviously this is only a rough guide but its a good start in my opinion .  here is  the article I looked at today . I used this one because it focused solely on mobile games and that is a really fast growing industry but most people can forget about it when creating their game.

my research.

I did not want to write this into the actual document as I feel like its just research but if you need me to I will. I found another 5 articles today as well and have added them to my rubix. I feel like this would be a very good summary for the key components section as in a summary you do not need links or references you just sum up why you think each topic is a key component. overall I found this pretty difficult to master and finding articles that are good enough o use but by next week I should have all my resources found to put them in my matrix and begin actually writing my parts of this book. I hope you enjoy reading my blog today and I look forward to researching into my chosen topic more in the future.


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