As a dive into the exercise of writing my thesis in five pages, I present this outline as a modified version of my whole thesis outline. I was forced to make some decisions about the most crucial pieces of my argument to retain in this version. I hope this will result in a tighter and more efficient outcome and writing process. I still feel like the bottom of the hourglass is up in the air. That is the hardest part, especially when the rest of it hasn’t been written yet.
I’m not usually an outline before kinda of writer. I usually like to make outlines in the middle of writing, to organize what I have already written and to give direction and structure for revision. However, for such a large and long project, I think I might attempt to build out the outlines first before I turn to the writing itself. It takes a little of the pressure off, I think.
The process of deciding what to keep in the Five Page Thesis was a little tricky, but certainly helpful. Science fiction was demoted and I was able to suss out my frameworks and key terms a little better. I think my main hiccup is that everything seems to circumstantial according to my analysis. My analysis has direction and content, but its not fully written yet! So that has been a little hard.