First in a (no doubt about it) ongoing series.
When I had to do my first literature review, and my first big grad school paper, last fall, I asked my mentor, The Indomitable Cassidy, for her advice. Here’s what she said:
I actually like starting with a “haphazard search,” but I prefer to start in the e-research [...]
Also tagged literature review, research papers, TheAdjectivalCassidyA few years ago, I read and enjoyed Alice W. Flaherty’s memoir, The Midnight Disease. Suffering from postpartum depression after the death of her newborn child, she began experiencing hypergraphia — the uncontrollable urge to write. She filled pages and pages with her writing, and couldn’t stop — the opposite of writer’s block.
Flaherty is a [...]
Advice for the creative writer, yes. But the student? My manager is taking a summer class and his teacher told the class, “Don’t write down what I say. Write down what you feel about what I say.” Interesting advice for a note-taker who’s thinking about regurgitating the content for the next test.
My reporting background feeds [...]
For the last month, just as I thought I was nearing the finish line or reaching a milestone where I could catch my breath, another deadline or commitment loomed, both at work and at school.
I spent last weekend binge-grading grant projects submitted by other teams in my Digital Preservation and Archiving class, reading an [...]