June 22, 2007

stalling and trying to jumpstart

I've been really stalled out lately. I think I need to develop some new routines that will help me motivate and keep producing chapters.

Today I skimmed through the methods and materials chapters of 4 recent dissertations from my department. They were in the 16-24 page range. One diss didn't have a methods chapter per se.

The basic gist is to name the methods and cite some references; justify the methods chosen in terms of your research questions; describe the actual work you did and how you did it; and address any challenges you faced.

I am thinking of working on this chapter next because it's yeoman's writing, nothing fancy, and it would be good to cross another chapter off the list.

Posted by otto0114 at 03:05 PM | Comments (0)
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