I can go PARTY tonight! With lots of good company, good music, and absinthe. And, I'll be hung over tomorrow, and it's OK, because FIRST DRAFT COMPLETE! WHEW!
Thursday, December 31, 2009
My Writing Tracker
I estimate between 280-307 hours left of work to wrap up my dissertation. This is my tracker for that. Each $1 = 30 minutes of work starting 1/3/2010.
Qualitative Data:
-Code 7 interviews - 10-15 hours
- Scan/Type up fieldnotes - 5 hours
- Code fieldnotes - 5-10 hours
- Analyze interviews + fieldnotes - 20 hours
- Write 1st draft of data analysis - 20-25 hours
Quantitative Data:
- Gather quantitative data - 5-7 hours
- Organize quantitative data - 5-10 hours
- Analyze quantitative data - 10 hours
- Write 1st draft of quantitative data analysis - 20-25 hours
Write-up: - Incorporate literature I have into existing chapters - 40-50 hours
Editing: - Edit: 40-50 hours
- Edit: 30 hours
- Edit: 20 hours
- Edit: 10 hours
- Send to Editor
- Finish changes: 20 hours
- Send off to DA on Jan 26
Total Hours needed: 280-307
Qualitative Data:
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- Code fieldnotes - 5-10 hours
- Analyze interviews + fieldnotes - 20 hours
- Write 1st draft of data analysis - 20-25 hours
Quantitative Data:
- Gather quantitative data - 5-7 hours
- Organize quantitative data - 5-10 hours
- Analyze quantitative data - 10 hours
- Write 1st draft of quantitative data analysis - 20-25 hours
Write-up: - Incorporate literature I have into existing chapters - 40-50 hours
Editing: - Edit: 40-50 hours
- Edit: 30 hours
- Edit: 20 hours
- Edit: 10 hours
- Send to Editor
- Finish changes: 20 hours
- Send off to DA on Jan 26
Total Hours needed: 280-307
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