Category: My Research
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Mystery
PC160012.JPG Originally uploaded by nfujita. Doing research seems to me quite mysterious unless you already know how to do it. As Roth (2005) notes, various scholars “have come to realize that we can only know about a practice that we already know in practice” (p.ix). I’m currently trying to figure out what there is to…
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Not comparing yourself to others
A sure-fire way to plummet to levels of self-loathing as a graduate student is compare yourself to others, whether they be other graduate students or faculty. Inevitably, there will be people who have won more grants and published more papers, or finished their doctorate in less time. So I try not to become less productive…
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Thesis Timeline
Like Bruce and Wendy, I like to make many lists. Like this one. I’m actually not too far off from the timeline that I laid out in my thesis proposal. I said I’d be analyzing and writing right now, and I am. What I didn’t anticipate was how long data analysis would take, and the…
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Contradictions
I liked the Alfred North Whitehead quote in the Social Studies section in Globe and Mail today: In formal logic, a contradiction is a signal of defeat: but in the evolution of real knowledge it marks the first step in progress toward a victory I’m not very familiar with Whitehead’s work, but I know Carl…