Taking a leaf from Havi’s Friday Chicken, this post will review the semester just past, but with a few additional headings.
The Hard
I never got around to writing all the blog posts documenting my semester, its ups and downs—which is one of the reasons I started the blog, so that it could serve as my diary/journal [...]
Tagged lessons learned, TheAdjectivalCassidyA few months ago, I was struck by this tweet from HiroBoga. For whatever reason, a circuit snapped in my head and I Got It.
All my little productivity obsessions and systems were all about creating my own infrastructure: my calendar, my to-do list, my inbox, my habits, all of it. If I were to look [...]
One of the ways to make sure a change in your life sticks is to make what you want to do so easy to do, you can’t avoid it. Another way is to adjust your environment so that going back to the old way is more difficult.
Not given to easy solutions, I suppose, I opted [...]
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I recently finished a pretty big, for me, literature review that totaled about 17 pages, including the title page and two pages of references. Here are some scattered thoughts and lessons learned, at my customarily hideous length:
I saw the wisdom of The Scholarly Cassidy’s advice to begin the search haphazardly. I spent much [...]
Tagged 780, blessay, literature review, research papers, TheAdjectivalCassidyThe 696 independent study is starting out as a literature review of risk in institutional repositories — where it’s perceived to lie, and, what’s interesting to me, who makes the actual decisions? The OAIS model defines the functions of an archival process but leaves the specifics of implementation to each institution. So, for various managerial [...]
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