I have done good work today and am concentrating well.
I went to bed insanely early last night and it has really helped. Tho I really do have to keep working anyway to keep on top of deadlines so have no choice anyway!
Am working on the lit review section of the introduction today, just making sure it all makes sense and cutting and pasting stuff in from my old lit review as I need to. Am glad that it is mostly a case of swapping text around and editing than re-writing, I have to say. the biggest change is writing all the time, after every point WHY I am making that point/referencing that literature, and linking it directly to the contentions of the thesis. Is really scary saying out loud what you are arguing (in humanities, am sure is not the same after lab work) because I don't really believe it myself (which my Sup said was perfectly normal!). Anyway, is just a case of writing these things out for now, to refine when Sup looks at it and tells me my contentions have already been made a gazillion times by bla-de-bla later.
Last night I did some work on an old chapter in front of the tv for an hour; one of my old chapters from about 4 years ago (!) was written with an old word and old referencing system so I was worried it won't work with my endnote. I did manage to re-format it with endnote tho (though still looks funny) and started entering the refs into endnote - they are all web addresses so very long and boring but it has to be done!
Plodding along nicely. Better get back to it. Really hope I get this section done today, am a bit tense until I do.
Two weeks tomorrow until first draft deadline! Am rather sanguine about it :) it is also interesting how I really have stopped thinking in terms of specific chapters and think about the thesis as a whole a lot more now. A good sign, I think.
x J
I went to bed insanely early last night and it has really helped. Tho I really do have to keep working anyway to keep on top of deadlines so have no choice anyway!
Am working on the lit review section of the introduction today, just making sure it all makes sense and cutting and pasting stuff in from my old lit review as I need to. Am glad that it is mostly a case of swapping text around and editing than re-writing, I have to say. the biggest change is writing all the time, after every point WHY I am making that point/referencing that literature, and linking it directly to the contentions of the thesis. Is really scary saying out loud what you are arguing (in humanities, am sure is not the same after lab work) because I don't really believe it myself (which my Sup said was perfectly normal!). Anyway, is just a case of writing these things out for now, to refine when Sup looks at it and tells me my contentions have already been made a gazillion times by bla-de-bla later.
Last night I did some work on an old chapter in front of the tv for an hour; one of my old chapters from about 4 years ago (!) was written with an old word and old referencing system so I was worried it won't work with my endnote. I did manage to re-format it with endnote tho (though still looks funny) and started entering the refs into endnote - they are all web addresses so very long and boring but it has to be done!
Plodding along nicely. Better get back to it. Really hope I get this section done today, am a bit tense until I do.
Two weeks tomorrow until first draft deadline! Am rather sanguine about it :) it is also interesting how I really have stopped thinking in terms of specific chapters and think about the thesis as a whole a lot more now. A good sign, I think.
x J
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