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Update on writing an electronic thesis-dissertation
A while back I wrote an extended blog post about electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs) and why I was hoping to present mine as such. Recently, one of my supervisors has been putting my case forward to those-who-make-decisions at the university and it seems that one hurdle may be that I need to hand something [...]
Wordle for June
Oh my goodness. I can’t believe it’s June – I’m still getting used to writing “2010″ instead of “2009″! Below is a Wordle (http://www.wordle.net) generated from the beginning section of my “Methodology/Methods” chapter. As I’ve blogged before, Wordle works by generating a “word cloud” based on the frequency of words in a given text – [...]
The Penelope Syndrome
I was recently reading Writing Your Dissertation in Fifteen Minutes a Day by Joan Bolker, rather than actually writing my dissertation, and her discussion of “the Penelope syndrome” made me smile: I have named a more extreme version of this problem [inefficient writing] “the Penelope Syndrome.” Penelope, you probably remember, spent the days of Odysseus’s [...]
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