Finally! I spent a few hours in the business school library yesterday looking for citations that would allow me to put numbers to costs associated with time spent looking for (and not finding) information one needs. I think I’ve finally stumbled onto something I can use! I have had a really difficult time finding academic [...]
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I passed!
My dissertation proposal defense took place on Thursday morning, and I passed! Yeah!! About 5 or 6 graduate students came, and of course my committee, so it was a small audience. I was nervous at the beginning of the defense, mostly because I felt like I wished I had made more progress on firming up [...]
proposal second draft
phew. just sent off the second draft of my dissertation proposal. all i really needed was one full day to work on it — and when i say full day, i mean about 14 hours of writing and revising. i need to learn how to do a better job of dividing up these writing tasks [...]
clarification of scope
I’m working on the second draft of my dissertation proposal. My committee asked me to make several changes: Clarification of terminology in the introduction and lit review sections. Improve the problem statement — essentially, more specificity in an early section of the paper about exactly what problem I’m trying to solve, and for whom. Link [...]
public proposal defense: thursday october 25, 9-11am
FYI, I’ll be defending my proposal in a public session on Oct. 25, 9-11am. Location TBD, look for an email in the next day or so. I left the pre-proposal meeting with the impression that a public defense would not be necessary; but we had talked about me doing it regardless of the outcome of [...]
