Blog for the week of 6-21
This week has been recovery
week. I finally feel as though I made
some progress in catching up with the rest of the class. I even had some time to visit the Teachers
showcase on Thursday and help out. It
was nice to see some old friends from other classes. Good to see other students that have had our
class and have gone through the same things that we are going through.
I have
been thinking about some advice that former students provided along the way
through this journey. One person told me
to try not to let the scope of the study get too big, and another told me the
scope of the project was too small. The
question to determine is, both have merit, so do I try to broaden the scope of the
project or do I continue the same road?
Only time will tell.
The
class is heading into revision week. One
thing that I have found, in my last couple of classes, is that individuals do
not turn in the best work to be peer reviewed.
In my qualitative analysis class the person who wrote a two-page paper
on an event in which she participated, had sixty five spelling and grammar
issues and a sentence that just stopped in mid-stream. I also have had the case where my paper was
never peered reviewed or people did not turn in papers at all. My hope is that everyone turns in a paper
that is ready for peer review.
We are
coming to the end of the class, and I feel as though I have learned that by
having an outline, it makes it easier to write and stay on target for
completing a scholarly work. I also
picked up the tip from someone in the class, to list the annotated
bibliographies in the outline to help out with cohesiveness. If I may impart some wisdom for the group
regarding a piece of software that is not too terribly expensive, is a product
called X-1. It is $70 for a single
license. X-1 will go and index all documents,
including all MS Office, and PDF documents.
It also indexes all e-mails and will make them be searchable. If you are looking for the word “Memphis,” that
you used in an e-mail two- years-ago, it will find it. If you're looking for a word in a PDF article
for this class, it will tell you the name of the document and show you where it
was used in the PDF.
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