28 Ocak 2016, Perşembe
saat: 19:11
In the past month, my writing progress has slowed significantly compared to what I was achieving before the winter holiday. While this is in part a natural result of going on vacation and adapting to my new environment, the fact is that I cannot allow this slower rate to continue, not if I am going to defend by the deadline next month.
And it's all because of these case study chapters, which take enormous amount of research to be able to start writing! Before even writing a single word of my dissertation I always thought, the case study chapters will be THE hardest to write. Well, now that I am past chapter 7 and am now re-writing the first section of my chapter 6 for the fourth time (qualitative data analysis and results) I am finding this increasingly annoying and boring. And I think it’s because I am too invested in it that I can't distance myself from it and take an objective look, as I went to the country, talked to tons of people, read a lot about it and…..this is my data & what I have been working so hard on for the last 2 years collecting. Now the task ahead of me is to write a better introduction that doesn't leave all the work of figuring out what's going on to the reader (while presenting the puzzle and being interesting and all) & begin working on my shadow cases to illustrate that my theory travels well. Yeah, I know, no big deal, right?
At this current moment I am beyond stressed, but I guess its because I really care about what I am doing. I am lucky to have the support of my parents and BF during this time, and also my coworkers & friends.
