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 [...]
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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 [...]
Also tagged 780, blessay, literature review, research papersI unpack my stuff in the SILS liberry [1] and start researching.
The Maternalistical Cassidy wheels in with Anastasia and asks if I have lunch plans.
I pack up my stuff and we go to lunch (very pleasant).
I unpack my stuff in the SILS liberry and start researching.
People people people walk by and want to chat. Very [...]
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I was not terribly interested in the spring courses being offered, and The Ineluctable Cassidy suggested an independent study might be an option.
I poked around and discovered that another friend, Carolyn, could supervise it. Because Carolyn is a doc student of some years standing in the school’s digital curation discipline, knowledgeable, energetic, and [...]
I interviewed with two prospective references at SILS, who agreed to write letters of reference (still waiting on the third to write hers and the application is done). They were good, tough interviews that asked the simple questions–Why do you want to do this? Why do you want to do it here? What do you [...]
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