January Research

[Parasaurolophus]

The December thread is dead, long live the January thread!


Goals for the month:

• Write ten more book sections.

Goal for today:

• Start on one new book section.

Year-wise, for what it's worth:

• Finish and submit Book.
• Write up Conference Panel Proposal.
• Write and present Conference Panel Paper.
• Fix up and resubmit October's Rejected Paper. (Preferably succeeding in publishing it.)
• Fix up and resubmit Neglected Paper. (Preferably succeeding in publishing it.)
• Write up Short Fun Paper.

It's a fair bit, but the first two will be done by May, and the papers to resubmit will only take a few days to fix up, once I can spare the days away from the book.

[mamselle]

I will copy and expand on last night's summary once I'm back on the laptop....too fiddly to do one the phone...

M.

[Parasaurolophus]

Did a bit of reading for the section. Need to find my angle on it.

[mamselle]

Nearly done with the extra article, one section left to go.

I think I'll finish it first, and submit, then get back to the other things...

M.

[Sun_Worshiper]

Wishing everyone a productive 2022!

January tasks:

• Finalize and submit book chapter draft - due January 31
• Submit paper #1
• Submit paper #2
• Work with co-author to figure out framework for paper #3 and, if we can agree, outline and begin drafting
• Get my RAs back to work on two projects that will, I hope, become books; and on my end, make some progress on developing/drafting book proposals

Stretch goals for January:

• IRB for ongoing project
• Explore literature on topic I've become interested in to see if/how I can make a meaningful contribution
• Deal with any rejections/R&Rs that come my way

Classes start in about a week, but I have a light teaching load for next couple months, so hoping to do lots of research.

[rota1234]

Goals for the first week of the new year:

1. Continue revising book chapter, which is nearing completion.
2. Continue research/drafting new journal article.
3. Continue reading/drafting other book chapter.

Happy New Year to everyone!

[mamselle]

OK, here we go:

1. Currently, two articles in process.
             a. 'Sudden request'/suggestion, Am. colonial, nearly done, that came up mid-month in December, re-tooling a blog post for a quarterly journal.
                      Not a biggie, I'm on the last page, figured it made sense to get it done and out the door ASAP.
                      So it's 'popped the stack' as they used to say in one IT office I knew of; might even be done by the end of the day today.

             b. This one is nearly done, too (on a French medieval topic):
                      A chunky section of cross-referenced segments will either be done, or moved to a 'splinter' file for a later pass.
                      Once that's finalized and the rest of the notes are checked, it can go to the person who suggested it.

2. A book, and a related group of Ppt materials (on which I got some appreciative feedback, always useful).
             a. The book has been in process for 1 year, with intensive writing interest and three decades, if research, tours, presentations, etc. count.
                      Handwritten segments were developed on Saturdays for about a year, with about half transcribed to the computer. More to do there.
                      I'm aiming on getting two chapters prepped for submission to a univ. press that has shown interest in serious local historical work.
                         Their acquisitions editor was encouraging a few years ago when I was formulating the project, which spurred me on.
                         I'll submit to them first, and work my way down; I'd like to have the Intro and Chpt. 1 done by May, am subdividing tasks now.
                   
             b. The Powerpoint was intended as a temporary online substitute for one of a three-tour series, with the others to follow, two summers ago.
                      It's taken about two years (par for the course), but last month, it was indeed seen by 10 folks online, who gave helpful feedback.
                      Now I need to:
                         1) Mount it; see what traffic it attracts; create segmented weekend presentations and a course based on it as well.
                         2) Extract directional items (per one viewer's suggestion) to create a shorter tour-for-phone-use for interested individuals.
                         3) Many chunks of the text will 'feed' to the book; I've transcribed some, need to finish up the rest (about half)

3. Ongoing, teaching-related work:
             a. Keep music theory Ppts going; maybe at some point stop doing new stuff and develop a series from those that might also be mountable.
                         1) This Ppt has 'grown like Topsy' and deserves a closer look with a mind to re-structuring it (not pressing right now).
                         2) Related ones on music appreciation and applied theory to a specific instrument deserve attention
                               But the teaching one is front-and-center for now, need to have three slides ready each week, which is fun but demanding at times!
                               Formatting issues from the Ppt in section 2 might need to be considered for this group as well; might need to get a designer to help.

             b. Other past presentations and teaching work would also lend themselves to online Ppt presentations (and some are already formatted, RTG).
                         1) Triage between books, articles, and online teaching options needs to be considered closely. Which works best and gets out soonest?
                         2) Some items are up as abstracts on my Academia and ResearchGate sites, which might also either go in as articles or PPts. Which?

Right now, focus is on items 1. and 2., obviously, but over the upcoming year, these other questions will want attention and action, too.

So, this is a year's projection, as well as a month's plan, perhaps. 

M.

[Parasaurolophus]

Wow, that was a day's work just detailing those plans!

For today, more on this infernal section.

[Parasaurolophus]

For today, more on this infernal section.

Read two articles and wrote a tiny bit, but I'm tired and bored by the section.

[Parasaurolophus]

Cleaned out my inbox, too. Whew!

Next up, my tabs. When I'm feeling brave.

[Parasaurolophus]

Cut my tabs down to five, then immediately opened one more to keep awhile. =/

Today, section work. Maybe I should start a non-boring one instead, though. I dunno.

[mamselle]

More done on the sudden-notice article.

It's rounding the bend, might well be done by the end of today.

M. 

[Parasaurolophus]

Today, section work. Maybe I should start a non-boring one instead, though. I dunno.

Started something less boring. Wrote 700ish words, finished half of my annotated biblio.

[mamselle]

More done on the sudden-notice article.

It's rounding the bend, might well be done by the end of today.

M.

Text done. Just have to add a few bib. items and clean up some endnotes and it's good to go.

Teaching soon, though, so it will have to be tomorrow AM's job (or maybe tonight's....)

M.

[filologos]

The conference paper is ready to go and will be presented soon. But I missed my December writing goal by quite a bit: I wrote 2,500 words instead of 4,000. That's partly because end-of-term grading and administrivia interrupted my work more than I'd expected (silly me), and partly because I'm now working with less familiar primary sources. Here's hoping this month is more productive.

My January goals:

Conference paper:

• Present it!

Dissertation:

• Prospectus: update for distribution
• Chapter 1: begin revising
• Chapter 2:


• write 3,000 words for 9,500 total
• begin incorporating conference paper