News item #2: I turned in my prospectus draft. And boy, is it a draft. No citations. Bracketed notes to myself all over the place about what I still need to write. Each "chapter" section in a different form and style. But it's turned in. My next step is to put together a working bibliography by the end of the month.
News item #3: Next up, working on writing the RSA conference paper, which will get me started on the reading and research for my Faerie Queene chapter. I'd love to have a solid draft by the end of the sumer.
How's the summer shaping up for you?
2 comments:
Awesome! I'm impressed by your productivity, and HOORAY on the conference paper. And, so, what all does your prospectus include? Is it like abstracts of the chapters?
I ended up treating the prospectus kind of like a scientific paper outline: Intro, Method, Historical/Social Context, Spenser, Sidney, Shakespeare, Conclusion. Some sections are full of questions I want to ask of the texts, others include preliminary arguments or relevant sections of the texts, etc. It's definitely outline-driven. Some sections are sort of abstracts of chapters, but some are more free-form. At this point, it's a document that has some shape and organization and has something written in every section. I expect to revise it a few times before it's "official," and I'll likely wait to revise until I've done more work and have a better idea of where I'm really heading with the dissertation.
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