I am still quarantined at home with Bean and his pox. he is't ill yet, I have a feeling it may be the calm before the storm...
I have managed to be arsed to open my chapters and have seen the editing done by my Sup and am relieved to say that it is all minor stuff. hurray to that. However, I can definitely see how he thinks it can be cut down. It is a lovely piece of work but there is too much of it. It needs to be more ruthlessly to the point and I can see where a LOT can be cut out. As it stands it would be a marvellous MA dissertation but needs to be the next cut above to be a PhD. This is fine, and am glad to recognise this. It is all progress. So I need to edit that chapter into the introduction.
I have also looked at my methodology chapters and realise I probably can ditch almost the whole chapter i was working on, and consolidate it into a couple of paragraphs (which would be lovely as I hate it and find it dull, dull, dull) and the other methodology chapter on theory I shall just keep.
Which means that I have a lot of words I have carefully crafted and honed that will never see the final edit :( I am so sad! I am not demoralised though. Oh no. I am still trying my best, even if this is rather a curveball. Instead of losing stuff I have to think about how it is getting better and better, and closer to the End Product. I can't be arsed to get worried about it, I just have to get on!
So, I plan to write an intro with all these other bits (ex chapters) in and send it off and see if it is what is expected. I will then re-write the discussion to be a conclusion and edit the theory chapter I just wrote. I think I will then collate the whole thesis and send it on to him for before our meet on the 30th and see what he says about the draft so far. It will be 15000 words too short at least (sad face) but without doubt he will see the holes and I can re-write filling these in. This plan worries me because it won't be a 'proper' first draft as I hoped, and I will only be two months away from my submission date... which doesn't leave much time for error (and I am making big, time wasting errors atm!) but I think it would be a good way to go. I am not entirely sure he remembers what my thesis is about seeing as it has been years since he read many chapters, and also old chapters mey be utter shit now and need thousands of words adding on that i don't know about yet, but he will.
I need help! Am SO glad we are having a meeting.
x J
I have managed to be arsed to open my chapters and have seen the editing done by my Sup and am relieved to say that it is all minor stuff. hurray to that. However, I can definitely see how he thinks it can be cut down. It is a lovely piece of work but there is too much of it. It needs to be more ruthlessly to the point and I can see where a LOT can be cut out. As it stands it would be a marvellous MA dissertation but needs to be the next cut above to be a PhD. This is fine, and am glad to recognise this. It is all progress. So I need to edit that chapter into the introduction.
I have also looked at my methodology chapters and realise I probably can ditch almost the whole chapter i was working on, and consolidate it into a couple of paragraphs (which would be lovely as I hate it and find it dull, dull, dull) and the other methodology chapter on theory I shall just keep.
Which means that I have a lot of words I have carefully crafted and honed that will never see the final edit :( I am so sad! I am not demoralised though. Oh no. I am still trying my best, even if this is rather a curveball. Instead of losing stuff I have to think about how it is getting better and better, and closer to the End Product. I can't be arsed to get worried about it, I just have to get on!
So, I plan to write an intro with all these other bits (ex chapters) in and send it off and see if it is what is expected. I will then re-write the discussion to be a conclusion and edit the theory chapter I just wrote. I think I will then collate the whole thesis and send it on to him for before our meet on the 30th and see what he says about the draft so far. It will be 15000 words too short at least (sad face) but without doubt he will see the holes and I can re-write filling these in. This plan worries me because it won't be a 'proper' first draft as I hoped, and I will only be two months away from my submission date... which doesn't leave much time for error (and I am making big, time wasting errors atm!) but I think it would be a good way to go. I am not entirely sure he remembers what my thesis is about seeing as it has been years since he read many chapters, and also old chapters mey be utter shit now and need thousands of words adding on that i don't know about yet, but he will.
I need help! Am SO glad we are having a meeting.
x J
2 comments:
Jayney,
Welcome back! Sorry to hear that your baby is not well at the moment. He will be better soon. Reading where you are seems like so near the end...a million miles for me yet. It would be a miracle if I were told my writing was beautiful...congratulations on that. You are on the last furlong. Thanks for recommending Joan Bolker's book, I bought it and read it, it really did help. I'm in the quagmire of the second analysis chapter..I can't seem to get the chapter going...I keep rereading stuff to get my argument off the ground...so help me God!
Go girl, you are nearly there.
Mimi
thanks for your encouragement! It means a lot :)
Good luck with your chapter!
x J
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