GOGSoc Episode V: The GOG Strikes Back

See my edited post...I have no idea how to do that!

Sorry, I've only got MS Paint, so this is the best I can do (yes, I know it sucks).

Not bad for Paint! I've got photoediting software so I will probably be able to do it at some point, but I've got to finish the methods section of my paper and then go and catch a train.

PRSOM.

glad to hear this... And also, when you get your distinction, you will know it was a "proper" one, something you had expressed concern about earlier. I presume you'll be reworking the same topic?

Sorry, I've only got MS Paint, so this is the best I can do (yes, I know it sucks).

Yay to evantej. Yay to sj. I love the title of this new thread. That is all.

Oh, and Craggy, I think deep down you know how to eat an elephant! Are you putting together a provisional chapter outline / structure yet? When it comes to writing, plunging in is all you can do. I ended up with four chapters (not including the Intro) of 15'000 words each, which is pretty long for thesis chapters. Each chapter had three sections and an introduction, which made the writing much easier to manage and organise. At the time I frequently wish that I'd opted for smaller chapter-lengths though, as it felt like just a long uphill struggle every time I started a new one.

Sorry, that wasn't very helpful, I'm just rambling Will you be doing much field research or whatever its called (surveys, graphs...)?

Yay to evantej. Yay to sj. I love the title of this new thread. That is all.

Oh, and Craggy, I think deep down you know how to eat an elephant! Are you putting together a provisional chapter outline / structure yet? When it comes to writing, plunging in is all you can do. I ended up with four chapters (not including the Intro) of 15'000 words each, which is pretty long for thesis chapters. Each chapter had three sections and an introduction, which made the writing much easier to manage and organise. At the time I frequently wish that I'd opted for smaller chapter-lengths though, as it felt like just a long uphill struggle every time I started a new one.

Sorry, that wasn't very helpful, I'm just rambling Will you be doing much field research or whatever its called (surveys, graphs...)?

Any news on your fiancé?

He had an awesome first day, he says. Loved the class, breezed the reading, and is getting on super-well with everyone. I really hope his impression of how it's going is shared by them! Today, he has yet more interviews, possibly awkward ones as they'll be with upper managerial types who won't know who he is but will be looking to see whether someone like him would fit in with their fine institution.

I can imagine it going a bit like this:



Edit: Youtube embedding doesn't work? Okay, link.

He'll be telling them all about his Reagan fundraisers, his golf handicap, and his various community board memberships (rotary club, council for conservative citizens...)!

Nope, that's useful thankyou. My supervisors have advised me to stick to 10,000 words. This will be easier for me too as I find shorter things easier to write.
I think I'm just going to write a 'stream of consciousness' thing of indeterminate length over the next two weeks and then send it to them going 'aaaakk - what do I do now'. They'll be able to help me identify where to split my ideas up into different projects and what things need more work.
So the provisional essay will just be a way of getting all my ideas down on paper while they're still buzzing around my head, and I'll structure it after that.

Both my undergrad dissertation and thesis weren't very good. I had much higher marks on everything else. I think the problem is that I'm very used to short essay writing. All my skills are based around that. I now need to learn a whole new way of working. And I need to get lazy. For short essays you can rely on rhetoric more, whereas now I'll need to get into the habit of careful, methodical thorough demonstration of my ideas, which I don't think I've adequately learnt yet.

I have never seen that clip before, it's brilliant. Will your fiancé be doing the same thing Larry does with his glasses?

Hope you don't mind me fixing that alba. Neither the link nor the embedding worked for me. You need to use the code at the end of the link between the two tags. You don't include the http://www.youtube.com bit.

Yep, the rhetoric thing was a big adjustment for me too, as my success up till that point was mostly based on writing short, highly stylised essays full of rhetorical flourishes. That said, there's obviously no need to throw the baby out with the bathwater, as long as the balance between method and style is healthy. Your stream-of-consiousness idea is good - I did something very similar as my first piece of 'proper' writing. I didn't use it in the end, but it helped me see which direction to take much more clearly, and to filter the important topics from the fluff.

He had an awesome first day, he says. Loved the class, breezed the reading, and is getting on super-well with everyone. I really hope his impression of how it's going is shared by them! Today, he has yet more interviews, possibly awkward ones as they'll be with upper managerial types who won't know who he is but will be looking to see whether someone like him would fit in with their fine institution.