Positioning My Disseration in the Philosophic stream

Tonight I wrote 4 pages on Continental Philosophy.

Tasks for tomorrow:

1. define the outline for the research problem section.
2. determine the page proportion I will give this section within the introduction.
3. write 4 pages of the research problem section.

Goals for Tomorrw - and beyond

OK this is my last post for today. Bloker says you should have reasonable daily goals. What's my goal for tomorrow. Factor: Stephen and Ruth are coming home, and we have Mark's birthday party so, time will be really limited. Also, I have to get to work tomorrow before 7:30.

So, I can stop working at 4:00 on BL stuff and work on my dissertation stuff at least until 5:00

So tomorrow I will:
a) manually revise my timeline
b) read Continental Philosophy (Critchely, 2001) and make some notes.
c) make a post on my progress

Beyond:
download MS Project on my home computer
make changes to my timeline
get more literature on organizational meaning and leadership meaning

Prareto's Principle and the Dissertation

Remember Praeto's Principle - the 80/20 rule.

The 80/20 is based on the principle that 80% of results are produced by 20% of the effort. This comes into play in many circumstances, such as marketing, sales and productivity.

i.e. Most of the work you do may actually be the result of only 20% of your time, the rest you’re procrastinating etc.

How would this apply to writing a dissertation? Well maybe it means that of all the literature you have collected to review, one should start with identifying the top 20% high value articles and books.

Task: identify the top 20% value of the literature I have for review.

First Steps - Creating a Timeline

One of the first things that I did was to create a timeline. I used a trial version of Microsoft project to do this. Now the trail version is expired and I need to make some changes. So, what to do: buy the student version of Project or do it in Excel or Word?

I was only a few days off my target for finishing the prospectus which turned out to be about 13 pages. I found that having the target date to work toward was very helpful.

Next task is to revise my target dates and produce a new timeline.