Moving into week eight of my fieldwork I took some time to sit down with the ol’ thesis proposal, which I have been evading since last spring. Today I attempted to chalk out the “Story” section, and to grapple with how I would differentiate between the content of the story section and the upcoming “Discussion” section. The story section is meant for describing literally what happened during your fieldwork. The discussion is reserved for analysis of the story. The difficulty will come in keeping my observations and opinions out of the story section, reserving them for discussion.
The good news, though, is that I can start to see how this thing is going to come together. There is an enormous amount of writing still to take place between now and then, but I can see a glimmer from the distant end of this long dark tunnel.
In keeping with my belief that all blog posts should include images, I drew you this:
the light will get brighter and brighter as the semester (and fieldwork) moves on, alex! the real question is what's on the other end of the tunnel.
ReplyDeleteThat's very exciting! Also, I think you should illustrate more of your blog posts, please! Did you see Michelle's comic, on her blog?
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