Archive for the ‘Ideas’ Category

A student or a scholar

Sunday, March 6th, 2011

One of the things I discovered about myself during the past year is that I'm a student, not a scholar. I've always thought of myself as a "lifelong student," but I'm not sure I really understood what that meant till recently. In my view, a master's candidate is a student, a ...

Research Journal for my 780 class

Tuesday, February 3rd, 2009

Cover of 7 Up Since our 780 Research Methods class doesn’t have a Blackboard site for the class, I’ll post my various links and thoughts to the blog, tagged with “780.” I wonder if Michael Apted’s wonderful Up series of documentary interviews would be an example of a kinda ...

On specifying your terms

Tuesday, December 30th, 2008

Image via Wikipedia One of the books I read over the Christmas vacation was Writing the Mind Alive, which one Amazon reviewer tags as the book to go to after freewriting has taken you as far it can. I used to write morning pages and still enjoy journaling, ...

Overreactions and decisions

Saturday, October 6th, 2007

The SILS MSIS curriculum requires a master's paper or project and the professors of even the core required classes encourage the students to begin thinking early about likely topics. Fortunately, it's possible to review a database of previous master's papers from SILS graduates so you can gauge the scope ...