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I'm writing my dissertation.
Monday, January 4, 2010
Day 20: Stuff to do today
Things to do today:
Teaching:
Calculate final grades
Submit final grades
Personal:
Call the graduate school
Call financial aid if needed to find out about loans
Dissertation:
Clean room
Make coffee
Finish coding interview
Start typing up fieldnotes
Tomatoes to do:
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Day 20: I'm tired... So very very tired
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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.
My time budgeting:
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
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