I worked well today! I worked a lot; I didn't take the half hour for lunch in the end but instead prepped dins (stir fry so needed to marinade the chicken) and made a sarnie and ate it at my desk. Wouldn't have enjoyed eating on my todd and was too into my work to leave it. YAYAYAYAAAA!
Have picked up the wean and he is napping so I am going to do some more work. I have looked back at another chapter and realised that a) the writing is vastly superior to the chapter I am writing now - obviously I have some catching up to do on that front and b) the content is a lot more analytical and in depth than I had remembered, so either I need to change this chapter (eeeek, unwise, it is just lovely as it is) and take some of it over to the discussion chapter, orrrrrr maybe I should change the order of the chapters. Some of the analyses in the other chapter I thought I would write in this one, or in the discussion - but it has already been done! (I did have nigh on a year off remember ;0) and yes, I probably should have read through all my writing on my return but I hate hate hate re-reading old work in case it is awwwwwwwwwwwwwwful. I will get out of this mode of thought pronto.) I wonder if the empirical chapter is naturally less analytical because it is an exploratory chapter, laying out one's findings for *later* analysis. It does have analysis - it continually answers 'why does this matter?'. But it doesn't yet do the secondary 'why'. (At MA level I was taught always ask 'why', and then 'why' again. It makes you question that bit more and gets the good marks.) Hmmm... I feel comfortable with it how it is, which could mean one of two things:
a) Follow your gut, you know what you are doing OR
b) You're being too simplistic and sticking in a comfy zone.
Hmmmm. I shall crack on.
x J
Have picked up the wean and he is napping so I am going to do some more work. I have looked back at another chapter and realised that a) the writing is vastly superior to the chapter I am writing now - obviously I have some catching up to do on that front and b) the content is a lot more analytical and in depth than I had remembered, so either I need to change this chapter (eeeek, unwise, it is just lovely as it is) and take some of it over to the discussion chapter, orrrrrr maybe I should change the order of the chapters. Some of the analyses in the other chapter I thought I would write in this one, or in the discussion - but it has already been done! (I did have nigh on a year off remember ;0) and yes, I probably should have read through all my writing on my return but I hate hate hate re-reading old work in case it is awwwwwwwwwwwwwwful. I will get out of this mode of thought pronto.) I wonder if the empirical chapter is naturally less analytical because it is an exploratory chapter, laying out one's findings for *later* analysis. It does have analysis - it continually answers 'why does this matter?'. But it doesn't yet do the secondary 'why'. (At MA level I was taught always ask 'why', and then 'why' again. It makes you question that bit more and gets the good marks.) Hmmm... I feel comfortable with it how it is, which could mean one of two things:
a) Follow your gut, you know what you are doing OR
b) You're being too simplistic and sticking in a comfy zone.
Hmmmm. I shall crack on.
x J
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