I’m feeling really good about my research today. I’m settled into my new workstation (in the room next door to my old workstation – already a much more social atmosphere, though my desk is covered in dust! Great spot, though – I can’t see the door from here so I don’t look up every time [...]
Posts Tagged as ‘planning’
May 9, 2008
Chapter outline: Writing as technology
The idea behind “writing as technology” lies in the fact that writing is a tool, something that is not instinctive but rather that has been developed over time to serve a purpose. People have not always written; indeed, Walter J. Ong in his text Orality and Literacy laments the fact that oral tradition is suffering [...]
May 9, 2008
Chapter outline v1.0
Given that I am struggling to outline my objectives in a concise-yet-comprehensive manner, my supervisor suggested that I come up with a chapter outline to guide me along my way. The idea is that, hopefully, by viewing my chapters alongside my question, I should be able to come up with four main objectives that my [...]
May 9, 2008
Research question – urgh!
I’m really super super struggling to come up with a central research question. It just seems like such a massive job, having to encapsulate a 100,000 word thesis in a one-sentence question. I’m just not finding anything that really makes me excited; all my questions begin with “how” or “why”, and it just seems like [...]
April 9, 2008
A title, for now.
Current working title of my thesis, as of about ten minutes ago:
In words and pictures: Narrating self through blogging, and other online discourses of being.
I like it. But I’m sure that will change…
