Thesis work
wordle: tag clouds got cooler
After reading Colin’s post a few days ago, I made this tag cloud using
thesis: two signatures away from being complete
I finally printed off the final copy of my thesis yesterday. All that is left is to get my major professor’s and my department chair’s signatures (sometime next week), and it is official: I am done. However, I kind of wish that I could nail my thesis to a wall.
tag cloud of the thesis
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dear reader
It is, admittedly, hard to write this. Since turning in my thesis at 2:00 pm on Friday (70 hours ago), I haven’t written anything but an abstract, instant messages, phone text messages, a reply to one email, two very short comments on blog posts, and a short poem. This is not a lot considering how [...]
tag cloud of chapter 3
Here’s my tag cloud of chapter 3. Doing this is helpful, because it helps me see that I use words like perhaps, believes, and seems too much. I need to keep this in mind when I revise. But otherwise, nothing really comes as a shock from this tag cloud.
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intervening in the writing process (or how to stop procrastinating)
A few weeks ago, I was having a lot of problems concentrating on my thesis and getting anywhere with my writing. I was getting really frustrated and would often drift away from my writing to read something online.
So, after staying up all night to read Harry Potter last Sunday night, I pulled out my old [...]
new draft of chapter 2
So today I finished revising Chapter 2. There’s a whole lot left to do (2 more chapters which have been barely started, and then a conclusion), but I feel good about how Chapter 2 looks.
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new draft of chapter 1
I just emailed Lisa my new draft of Chapter 1. I’ll be honest — I’m not the biggest fan of revision. The major revisions I do when writing are as I write, and often my writing is done in quick bursts that I barely revise. I’m finding though, that an extended argument or long piece [...]
blog as palimpsest
Note for Chapter 3:
Following Geoffrey Sirc in English Composition as a Happening, can we view blogs as palimpsests, the constant putting new ideas or artifacts on top of old ones, a constant revisioning of ideas, a collage? Blogs, even those that “look” neat and tidy, are messy compositions, right?
tag cloud of new chapter 1
Here is a tag cloud of the draft of Chapter 1 I am turning into Lisa this morning:
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