Try as I might, I'm at a complete standstill. I can't get any of the final edits complete, nor am I able to get all the paperwork moving. In the grand scheme of things, I need less than three hours worth of work. But, I'm seriously having a hard time getting going on it.
Part of this standstill, I think, comes from two things:
1. I'm having a hard time letting go. Once it's submitted, that's it. It's done. No more being a student.
2. I'm worried that once I submit it, it will come back to haunt me in my old age, due to some assumed plagiarism, or some policy something or the other that I did.
The one is just an attachment thing. The second one is fear. Fear of the unknown, and fear of knowing how it will affect me later on in life.
But, that fear is quite unfounded. Really. If I am so worried about it, I can try submitting it to Turn-it-in, and see what happens.
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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
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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