Documentation and the Process Journal
Introduced| English | Meaning |
|---|---|
| documentation/ˌdɒkjuːmənˈteɪʃn/ | A record of work, processes, decisions or development, using images, notes or other evidence. |
| process journal/ˈprəʊses ˈdʒɜːnl/ | A record of experiments, decisions, observations and revisions made while developing creative work. |
Make the thinking visible
- Investigation must be visible: documentation 记录 captures questions, tests, failures, and turns (CED 1.B).
- Document with anything quick: phone photos, taped-in tests, dated notes, thumbnails.
- Record the why at decision points — two lines today saves reconstructing it in April.
Real documentation or staged?
Sort each journal habit by whether it is credible process evidence.
Process images from your journal ____.
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Process images can be part of the 15.
You should record the reason for a decision at the moment you make it.
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Real-time notes beat April reconstruction.
The process journal
- Keep material tests physically in the process journal 创作过程日志, with outcomes noted.
- Photograph work-in-progress stages; a before/after revision pair is gold.
- Process images may be submitted among the 15 Sustained Investigation images.
An artist's sketchbook page: process journals record inquiry, sources, and small experiments
Select all good documentation habits.
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End-of-term reconstruction looks staged.
Showing beats claiming
- A true journal is the difference between claiming inquiry and showing it.
- Scorers reward evidence they can see, not descriptions of work you did.
- Date everything — "over time" is a scored idea.
"____" is a scored idea, so dating your pages matters.
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Development over time is explicitly scored.
Match the entry to what it proves.
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Show the process, don't just claim it.
Do not reconstruct your "process journal" the week before submission — it always looks staged, and scorers have seen a thousand of them. Document in real time; the honest mess is the credibility.
A dated spread: "Tried ink on wet paper — bled too far (photo). Cut water by half (photo) — better. Kept the accident on the left, it looks like fog." Three lines and two photos prove experimentation and a decision.
Documentation makes investigation visible — dated tests, photos, and the why at decision points, kept in a process journal. Show, don't claim: real-time, dated evidence is what scorers reward.
Write from 7 dated process notes
- A journal has 7 dated notes.
- One note is a photograph of a failed wash.
A process record has 7 dated notes, including a photo of a failed wash. Does that failed page belong, and why are the dates useful?
Dates show what was tried before the drawing changed.
What should the process record include?
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A failed test is part of the sequence the dates make readable.