Hi All,
Well I have to confess that I am enjoying absolutely everything so far, although that could be something to do with this being the first few weeks and also me having my own 'space' where I'm not mum for the first time in just over 6 months. First week was great, very productive, second week my baby girl caught a virus which ended up with a 999 dash to children's hospital and 48 hours under observation, my daughter was critically ill when born and we now know virus's (or viri?) are not great things for her!

Anyway - rambling - I am unsure as to the most efficient way to read the vast quantity's of papers which i need to read. I have endnote, which is great for organising me and I can add notes to that but I am not sure If I should be writing a paragraph for each paper to summarise what i think is the relevance or just tagging papers relavent or not relavent. Due to the piecemeal way i need to work I am already finding it hard to keep everything in my brain. Illustrated beautifully by my last meeting with my supervisor who asked me what paper i had found so far that was most relavent or thought-provoking and i blithered on about something barely relavent forgetting in fact i had read some very interesting things the week before but had forgotten them!

Thanks in advance :) amd thank you to all who convinced me i wasn,t mad :)

OK - I found the tips on reading few pages down - have assimilated info, half a packet of chocolate hobnobs and writing alongside in word. Also now remember when i did my MSc research that organisingt the subject areas i wanted to read about actually gave me a very good structure for the whole project & writeup.

Brain like a sieve......