Now I am on to the literature review chapter.
Technically I have five chapters of nine written to first draft standard. However, I do have to re-do the discussion chapter as although the arguments in it are decent enough I don't think it is really engaged with the literature enough. I am sure I should have lots and lots of references and it just doesn't really. It shows I don't really know the lit at the mo. But when I have done the lit review this should come naturally? I will review it straight afterwards.
Looking at the lit review hurts. I thought it was jazzy but actually it is poor. I am so glad in a way that I have had this time off (er well, not... but you know what I mean) because because I can really see the work for what it is. It needs some proper TLC which I couldn't really give before because my deadlines were too tight and I was reaching burnout. As it was I did burnout and nearly snuffed it completely, but am back now and woah, lady, this needs some attention!
The introduction is lazy, wordy and unfocused. The points I want to focus on are a bit toward the outside of my remit and in a couple of areas I don't even know that well. So I either need to steer clear of them, or read more. Surely I can't read more - but what I have read I can ingest better, so re-reading properly and wholeheartedly is essential. If I think that this is the last bloody time I will have to really read these notes and authors and if I can just concentrte and get the info in my brain, like for an exam, then it gives me that bit of energy I need to pick them up again.
I have a month to complete this chapter which is lovely. With hard work and concentration I can do this.
it is so much better seeing it with fresh eyes. I can see the edges of my research, whereas before I 'knew' too much and was sort of bleeding into areas that are of interest to the work but not really... and so should be left alone. I need to think of it as a little project, a micro project and make it really focused and tight, make it about a few points made well rather than grand statements. PhD projects do not the world change :)
Off to stare at this mess of an introduction and re-think what it is I really want to do with the research. Lit review chapters do have quite an important role in shaping the expectation of the reader as to the direction of the research. I have written the contentions chapters, now I need to kind of work backward and see what my main foci were, why and what the history behind them is. this is the lit review.
x J
Technically I have five chapters of nine written to first draft standard. However, I do have to re-do the discussion chapter as although the arguments in it are decent enough I don't think it is really engaged with the literature enough. I am sure I should have lots and lots of references and it just doesn't really. It shows I don't really know the lit at the mo. But when I have done the lit review this should come naturally? I will review it straight afterwards.
Looking at the lit review hurts. I thought it was jazzy but actually it is poor. I am so glad in a way that I have had this time off (er well, not... but you know what I mean) because because I can really see the work for what it is. It needs some proper TLC which I couldn't really give before because my deadlines were too tight and I was reaching burnout. As it was I did burnout and nearly snuffed it completely, but am back now and woah, lady, this needs some attention!
The introduction is lazy, wordy and unfocused. The points I want to focus on are a bit toward the outside of my remit and in a couple of areas I don't even know that well. So I either need to steer clear of them, or read more. Surely I can't read more - but what I have read I can ingest better, so re-reading properly and wholeheartedly is essential. If I think that this is the last bloody time I will have to really read these notes and authors and if I can just concentrte and get the info in my brain, like for an exam, then it gives me that bit of energy I need to pick them up again.
I have a month to complete this chapter which is lovely. With hard work and concentration I can do this.
it is so much better seeing it with fresh eyes. I can see the edges of my research, whereas before I 'knew' too much and was sort of bleeding into areas that are of interest to the work but not really... and so should be left alone. I need to think of it as a little project, a micro project and make it really focused and tight, make it about a few points made well rather than grand statements. PhD projects do not the world change :)
Off to stare at this mess of an introduction and re-think what it is I really want to do with the research. Lit review chapters do have quite an important role in shaping the expectation of the reader as to the direction of the research. I have written the contentions chapters, now I need to kind of work backward and see what my main foci were, why and what the history behind them is. this is the lit review.
x J
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