Beefeater!

To raise my spirits a bit, I ordered my academic beefeater tam today.

How Focused Am I?

First Submission - Sort of...

I continue to struggle with finding an Introduction that I'm happy with. I am on my NINTH revision.

So as not to delay any further, I sent to Dr. Z a partial introduction (includes significance and justification of the study, the limitations, and the definitions of key operational terms), all of the Methodology chapter (chapter 3) and all of the results (chapter 4). It also has an appendix attached to it.

I'll wait for Dr. Z's comments before I start the conclusions/implications chapter (chapter 5).  For now, I've got about 25,000 words and 104 pages.  Need more...

Should I admit this?

I've hit a wall.  This is my song today.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ghRpNVecJqw

In Search of Something Pithy!

As attention-catching as it is, the proposed first paragraph of my dissertation doesn't really apply anymore.  My research results took me in a surprising direction.

What to do...what to do?

Rereading an article Dr. S sent me early last year: "Setting the Hook," Academy of Management Journal, 2011, Vol. 54, No. 5, 873-879.  Hope that helps.

Three of Five

Just finished up three of five chapters...only the literature review and the conclusions remain.

As soon as I clean up my Methodology and Results chapters, I'm going to send the three on to Dr. Z for his review.  While waiting for him, I'll try to crank out that lit review - the current bane of my existence.

Getting close!

Am I into this or what?

It's only 8:00 a.m., and I'm already thinking about what I want for lunch.