Dissertation Diary
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Located Reading, Berkshire United Kingdom
Tags Study, Student, EFL, Linguistics, dissertation, University
Diary of an Applied Linguistics student trying to complete her MA dissertation.
Latest Blog Posts
- Conclusion on Sep 4, 2009
I am going to try and write the conclusion section. I'll start by reviewing my notes about what should be included. Then I'll write a plan and then I'll start writing. I also think I need to improve my student development section of the literature r...
- I still have loads to do! on Sep 3, 2009
I have written most of the methodology section now but I still need to justify why I have changed MacDonald's framework. I think I will do this after I have changed the literature review as I will need info from the lit rev to do that. So next steps...
- Plans for the day on Sep 3, 2009
Today I am going to write up the analytical framework and the problem sentences and the extra bits of the framework if I can. If I finish that I will continue with the plan of the whole dissertation that I started the other day. Comments...
- So far today on Sep 1, 2009
I have read through the methodology and listed the changes I need to make and reread hewings first article. Now I am going to attempt to create a plan of the whole dissertation and how all the ideas fit together. That will make it easier to revise ev...
- The last leg on Sep 1, 2009
Just the conclusion left and a lot of revision. Main things that need changing are Literature review - add and take out sections according to the results, Methodology - detail and justify my adaptations to Hewings' framework, Results and Discussion -...
- Still getting there slowly on Aug 22, 2009
I have made a lot of improvements to my results and discussion sections. I still need to add all the examples and tidy up some sections. I might have to do a little bit more reading as well. I have written more than 10,000 words now. I found that out...
- Back to reading on Aug 21, 2009
I have made improvements to the results and discussion sections. I have also found some extra information about evaluation and objectivity in psychology writing. I still need to find information about hedging. I will start with Hyland (2000) for that...
