Wednesday, April 19, 2006
A proposal draft
Today has been a VERY LONG day, but it also has been very productive. I finished preparing the first draft of my research proposal. It included the title page, the table of contents, the first three chapters, a few appendices, and a list of references – a total of 63 pages. I wasn't really ready to let it go, but I did. I followed the recommendations I was given. I could here in my head the voices of professors saying, "Just put together what you have!" And although nobody said those exact words, I remembered the recommendations from the Seminar and from my professors, and ... I let it go!
It is hard to do so, especially when you feel you could have done a lot better, that you could have added other references, or that you could have revised the manuscript once more. But, I let it go!
And now, you might say, you can sit back and wait and see what the professors have to say. However, that is not what I am going to do. I will keep reading, revising, adding, trying to get these chapters, especially the third one, as ready as it can get, as complete as I think it should be.
And then when the meeting time arrives, I know more revisions will need to be made, more ideas will be presented, and changes will have to be made again. Remember the recursive process I talked about before? Well, it is like a never ending story, as long as we are alive, there will be something else to do, something else to read, something else to fix, something else to revise, …
Hey, … WAIT!!! You need to finish the degree, remember?
It is hard to do so, especially when you feel you could have done a lot better, that you could have added other references, or that you could have revised the manuscript once more. But, I let it go!
And now, you might say, you can sit back and wait and see what the professors have to say. However, that is not what I am going to do. I will keep reading, revising, adding, trying to get these chapters, especially the third one, as ready as it can get, as complete as I think it should be.
And then when the meeting time arrives, I know more revisions will need to be made, more ideas will be presented, and changes will have to be made again. Remember the recursive process I talked about before? Well, it is like a never ending story, as long as we are alive, there will be something else to do, something else to read, something else to fix, something else to revise, …
Hey, … WAIT!!! You need to finish the degree, remember?
