Thanks Tusco, I tend to skip over referencing etc in first drafts for just that reason - tend to type '(reference here)' as a note to myself to come back to that point and then just carry on.

It's going a little better this morning. Progress is slow and torturous but I'm confident I'll get there.

I managed to get a very little bit done on my PhD last night. I want to do more tonight, so HAVE to finish my RA goals before 5 (preferrably before then and then work on PhD without sup noticing 8-) )

Morning everyone :)

Finalised notes, need to start reading properly and writing/summarising. That is the goal for today. Could do with some of your valuable advice on this thread folks: http://www.postgraduateforum.com/threadViewer.aspx?TID=17439

Thanks!

Urgh. I just found out that I am presenting at a postgrad conference in my department in 2 weeks time. I somehow missed the email telling me I had been accepted! My next goal is to spend until 4 starting getting something together.

OK so I didn't spend the last hour and a half working on my presentation. Instead I realised I can base some of it on a talk I gave a while back, but didn't have a copy of that with me. I called into the library before heading home. I'm now settling in to spend a couple of hours making a start on it.

Started writing, which is progress! Going to work on it till late today hopefully.

Random question: If I have a question, should I email my supervisor (I work away from office), or should I wait till the supervision (which is next week)? I feel like if I was in the office, and she was there, I would have asked her, and not waited.

Aaaarrrggghhh!! Stress level was just temporarily sent through the roof by an email from an academic sent to me at 7pm tonight saying - "sorry, you got missed off the circulation of an email on 2 Feb saying that you and I need to do a joint presentation at a seminar next Wed morning, can you email me back with ideas..." Yikes! Erm, no, I'm kind of busy writing this paper I'm already supposed to have sent you!!

Oh well. Now I've climbed back down off the ceiling I can see that it is just about possible for me to do this. I have a window of two hours on Tuesday afternoon when I can write the presentation (gulp!!) But the academic has at least given me another week to finish writing this paper, so tomorrow I can abandon it and get on with all the other incredibly urgent things I need to do before next Wednesday....

Evening all, my goals for this evening are:
1. to complete the page numbers on the contents pages.
2. to check the Harvard ref system for web refs and amend thesis as appropriate.

Evening dunni, hope you get the work done.

I'm calling it a night now. Finished the evening making notes on the structure of the rest of the journal article, so I can now leave it for a few days while I do all my other work and hopefully I'll still know where I got to when I come back to it! I'm now going to unwind for a bit then get an early night - catching the 7.30 train to campus tomorrow so will have be up at 6.30 :-(

Goals 1 and 2 done, an early night for me then!

Morning :) I'm up early (very rare for me) to start a new chapter of my thesis, the methodology bit! Been reading up on general how to so far.

Goal 1: read my sub's methodology chapter
Goal 2: read my colleague's methodology chapter
Goal 3: scan through my research method books

and make notes along the way :)

Hope everyone has a wonderful day! :-)

Morning! good luck with the methods chapter. I'll be tackling mine too in a couple of weeks time.

An earlier start than usual for me today also as I am going to head out for a mid morning gym session. My first goal is to spend between now and then working on the introductions section of my chapter.

Morning everyone! Good luck with the work today.

I'm leaving my journal article to concentrate on other (now more urgent) stuff. So today's goals are:

1.) Renew books in library - DONE
2.) Sort out confidentiality agreement for interviewees
3.) Sort out data portection etc statement for interviewees
4.) Finalise and print interview schedule for Monday's first interview
5.) Work on revising questionnaire

Hmm, that should keep me busy I think!

First goal

- proof read article and submit to journal :-)