Category: EdD Update

Even though I had a clear day yesterday, I just didn’t get a great deal done. I guess that is the way it goes sometimes. I was trying to discuss the idea of managers personality profiles affecting learning but it wouldn’t flow. The trick I have found is to reread what I have written several…

15/11/2010 by admin. Ok, I have finished the methodology and the introduction – well, finished in that I am relatively happy with what has been written so far. I have a few references to complete and some to update, otherwise it is pretty much done (fingers crossed). Actually, I am feeling quite upbeat about where…

11/11/2010 by admin. A reasonable amount accomplished today. I now have about 4500 words for the method – at least until my sup sees it! It seems to be quite tightly written though, so having to rewrite any of this part will be be quite difficult. I feel as though I have managed to get…

09/11/2010 by admin. A brilliant day in terms of getting words down on the page! I had cancelled a meeting that was due to take up the whole day in order to get things done and it has paid off. I have all but finished the Intro now, with just a few references to fill…

06/11/2010 by admin. Well, after several months of blogging apathy, I have decided to try and make a new start. This blog forms part of a module on dissemination (or at least that is the aim), so it is important that I make a better effort to keep it up to date. I met with…

So, there it is… First draft of chapter 2 almost ready for submission. In the end I was lucky enough to take three days clear so that I could finish it off… I need to get back into the habit of ’snack’ writing… Waiting for whole hours of time to write, is not getting the…

I don’t really know how other people lay out their papers, but I tend to read about the subject – at least enough to understand what else I need to read – and then list the sections from introduction to conclusion. In each section, I will put the headings for arguments and try to make…

Reading is going well. I have managed to work my way through a couple of papers and a book that may influence my thesis: my next chapter is entitled ‘how managers learn’ – so a nice tight field there then! It is only when you look at specific questions you realise just how wide the…

Well, I reckon that was a long enough break, but time to get my head down and do some work. Needless to say, I am behind now, so getting a great deal of reading completed over the next few months is imperative. I have worked out that reading a paper a day will just about…

Defining bleurgh probably isn’t necessary as I reckon almost everyone in academia understands the feeling experienced when the stress of writing the paper is finished and the anxiety of waiting for the feedback has yet to kick in. That feeling of limbo/impending doom alternates with the exhilaration of having actually written something that someone else…