Monday, April 23, 2012

I can not believe I have not worked on my paper since the 11th. Wow. That is not good. But I am back. I worked for a couple of hours today and decided I need to stop because I need access to my source materials. So, I am going how now to get those. My digital divide book and my Warshauer book and look up some citations. However I did get to page 20 of 75. My goal for Tuesday is to at least get halfway thorough so I am shooting for page 40. It took me awhile to get going today but I am back on track now. Once I have rewritten I will print and read and edit and decide if I wish to add anything to it in terms of other sources or if I am happy with it. I am back on Track. Considering I am back in the game I should be sitting pretty by Thursday.

Wednesday, April 11, 2012

The last few sessions I finished going through my sources. I now have a 75 page document that is my chapter 2. Yesterday I rearranged my outline. Today I began the process of rewriting the document in terms of order, flow, format, citations. Today I made it through the first 10 pages. I intend to stay on this track for the rest of the week starting with Thursday. I should be able to work on Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday and I should be sitting pretty by Sunday.


http://www.columbiatribune.com/news/2012/apr/09/missouri-st-leader-has-eye-on-diversity/

Tuesday, April 03, 2012

Include this in chapter 2.
http://news.fiu.edu/2012/03/national-study-looks-for-insights-why-do-minorities-drop-out-of-doctoral-programs/38043

this too:

http://www.tnj.com/news/business/google-looks-boost-minorities-science-technology


http://www.tnj.com/news/business/google-looks-boost-minorities-science-technology
Today is a great day. I have finally made it through all of my sources and they are now in my chapter 2. Some have been integrated very nicely into my outline and others have not. But at least that is complete. I have other sources that I have learned of since starting my chapter 2 but I am not going to worry about integrating those at this point. There are at least 2 that I would really like to include. What I am going to do is build a list of these and continue to analyze them and decide if they even have a place. I now have 75 pages of chapter2. What I need to do now is:

1) Finalize my outline based on the information
2) Rewrite the pieces and place them in the right part of the outline
3) Proof read for flow, citations, and the like.

So, how very exciting this is. My next session I will spend time reviewing and improving the outline. Once this is done I will do the rewriting. When I feel good about that, I will submit. My goal is Thursday. I have Wednesday and Thursday to strive for this goal and I intend to. Once I have done this I will print the paper and re-read a final time before submitting to Margaret.