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  • How is the word dissertation progressing through the blogopshere

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    Reading Time: < 1 minuteHere’s the result when looking up three terms for dissertation on blogpulse

  • It feels really great

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    Reading Time: < 1 minuteFor the past hour or more, I’ve been listening to music and working on my dissertation and I’ve just hit 9500 words on my dissertation (disso as it’s affectionately referred to) and it feels great. I’m so happy that I have two weeks in which to proofread, re-write, and improve what…

  • Time For The Dissertation Re-write

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    Reading Time: < 1 minuteNow that I’ve achieved my goal of getting most of my dissertation written I’m going to take a day’s break and work on another of my assignments to clear my head and also to make sure I complete all assignments by the required date. It’s been a long effort but last…

  • Three Thousand To Go

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    Reading Time: < 1 minuteIn three thousand words my first dissertation draft will be ready. This evening I may be able to get up to ten thousand words and from that point on it will be about the re-writing of one section after another until I am happy that I have fit in as much…

  • The Ten Thousand Word Project

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesYesterday I woke up and within half an hour started working on my dissertation. For a few minutes, I added one or two more paragraphs of text before going on a search for interviews. I looked up Cousteau and arrived at the INA page. The INA is the french video archive online.…

  • First thoughts

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    Reading Time: < 1 minuteYou know you’re a final year student when the last thing you think about before going to sleep is your dissertation. It’s also the first thing you wake up thinking of and to make matters worse you notice that a friend has joined a group called “my dissertation is driving me…

  • Dissertation writing

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    Reading Time: < 1 minuteA dissertation is a lot like creating a specialised website. You gather hundreds of bits of information and amalgamate them into a collection of articles.

  • On a night at Swankey’s

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesHaving the dissertation hanging over me is unpleasant. I often spend a few hours a day doing research which is divided between books and documentary films. Over time I organised all these ideas and I’m ready to start writing. I want to finish the first draft by Saturday. i.e. the day before…

  • Why It’s Great To Be A Student

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesOne of the best things about being a student is that you can work on projects without having to feel bad about not making any money. In particular, I’m thinking of the dissertation. It’s a point where you’ve got ten thousand words to write about subjects you love. As you’ve got to…

  • Before waking up

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    Reading Time: < 1 minuteBefore waking up I found myself catching a plane to an airport before catching a small private plane to somewhere in the mountains where I went skiing. I was going home but for some reason I was late. I was telling myself that I had to get back to one place…