December Research

[Parasaurolophus]

Here goes December.

Goals for the month:

• Write four new book sections.
• Touch up two nearly complete book sections.
• Compile winter Newsletter.
• Fix and resend Neglected Paper
• Fix and resend October's rejected paper.

It's pretty ambitious, so we'll see. The first two are the most important.


Today:

• Start looking at winter Newsletter stuff.
• Touching up a book section.

[mamselle]

Oh, good.

I posted my December goals on the last day of the November page, I'll have to go get them. (ETA/added)

Updates: I've put my little toe into the article stuff. More to do there, but it feels good to be back with it, too.
                   I'll keep plugging on the book, using the Ppt materials (on which I got some appreciative feedback, always useful) and
                        the other things I developed as well.

Next goals : a) Get the Ppt seen by at least 10 folks online, and solicit feedback
                   b) See how to mount it and see what kind of traffic it attracts; consider presentations based on it as well.
                   c) Keep working on the article, see if it can be finished and sent to the person who was interested in it to begin with.
                   d) Sort-of research: Keep up with music theory Ppts and develop a series from those that might also be mountable.
                   e) I started two other go-with Ppts for a); see if those can be finished or at least advanced towards completion.

I just pulled the survey/inventory files I need to work on the article, and I'm focusing on that, plus photos for today.

I should start an email distribution list for the invitation to view the Ppt with commentary (anyone here invited to PM me, also).

Two students in the afternoon, so I have to finish up by 3-4-ish.

M. 

[filologos]

My goals this month:

Conference paper:

• Finish draft (~800 more words to go)
• Revise draft
• Finish handout

Dissertation:

• Chapter 1: begin revising
• Chapter 2: 4,000 more words (for ~8,500 total)
• Chapter 3: read some of primary source V

I present the conference paper early in January, so I'd like it to be more or less finished by mid-December. That will allow me to spend more time during the break on the dissertation. I'll focus on Chapter 2; revising Chapter 1 and reading for Chapter 3 can, if necessary, wait till I finish a rough draft of Chapter 2 in January or February. I expect to incorporate part of the conference paper (duly expanded) into Chapter 2 in any case.

[mamselle]

We are the bold, the courageous.

We are the writers.

M.

[Sun_Worshiper]

December tasks:

• Complete book chapter draft - due January 31, I need to write the conclusion
• Polish draft of paper #1
• Make some progress on getting paper #2 off the ground
• Conduct interviews related to new project that I am launching with co-authors
• Continue developing book proposal, based on data collection project that has been ongoing (RAs working on this)

Stretch goals for December:

• Submit paper #1 to a journal
• IRB for ongoing project
• Think about new projects

I will also have to deal with any papers currently under review that come back to me, either as rejections or (with some luck) as R&Rs.

[rota1234]

December Goals:

1. Finish revisions on book chapter for project 1.
2. Continue research on new journal article and draft it.
3. Work through reading list for project 2 book chapter and formulate a very rough draft.
4. Start revising other book chapter from project 1.

[Parasaurolophus]

Today:

• Start looking at winter Newsletter stuff.
• Touching up a book section.

Copy edited and laid out all the newsletter stuff so far, and touched up three book sections, which are nearly but not quite done.

[Parasaurolophus]

More Newsletter, more sections.

[mamselle]

One page of the article cleaned up.

It's good to be getting back into it.

Draft of an email sendout for the Ppt show-n-tell next.

Then copy-and-paste some Ppt info into book chapters, redistributed where they belong (in chronological order) there, since they fit in other places (tour-point-by-tour-point) in the Ppt.

Student at 6:30.

M.

[Parasaurolophus]

More Newsletter, more sections.

Newsletter just about done, minus a straggler article. Finished a section, started a new one (wrote a few hundred words, re-read the touchstone article).

[mamselle]

Email done and sent.

Will have to do the book-part later, time to set up for teaching now.

Maybe over dinner...

M.

[darkstarrynight]

December Goals

• Return to neglected paper for revision with colleagues
• Contribute something to the long-term digitization project
• Submit iRB, once approved submit research request to organization to solicit participants, and start new project (conference proposal due early January)
• Finalize book chapter technically due December 1st but editor is a coauthor so we have until the second week of December

I submitted IRB today for the new project but learned my two co-PIs each had one training module left to do so that is stalled at least until Monday. The last piece of the book chapter I need from a colleague will come in early next week so that is almost done.

[Parasaurolophus]

Not likely to have much time today, but I'll section if I can. First, though, I have marking to do.

[filologos]

My goals this month:

Conference paper:

• Finish draft (~200 more words to go)
• Revise draft
• Finish handout

Dissertation:

• Chapter 1: begin revising
• Chapter 2: 4,000 more words (for ~8,500 total)
• Chapter 3: read some of primary source V

600 more words on the conference paper this morning and some work on the handout. I'm just about at length, but I'll need to trim some and write some more in order to fit a proper conclusion in.

[mamselle]

The email is getting replies and supportive suggestions. Encouraging.

More to do on the other stuff, but have to set up teaching for now.

The weekend will be the scenario for the next batch of work.

M.