Archives for February 2015
A New Constitution
My thesis has changed a bit over the past week just in time for the first draft deadline on Friday. At this stage in the game I am analyzing Bruno Latour’s idea of a new bicameral system (that he lays out in Politics of Nature) to see if it can provide a framework to better address the dam controversy in […]
Now Introducing…
Today I have been working a lot on my introduction. I have been told that the point of a precis is to get the reader’s attention while at the same time situate them, introduce them to your topic, and convince them they should care. An introduction should therefore be captivating and informative without being too long (or […]
Outline
I am revising my outline. This is not the first time I have reexamined my outline and it will not be the last. Hopefully it is closer to the last than the first but that just seems like wishful thinking. After some discussions with professors I have found that there are two main ways I […]
Form Follows Function
Over the next week and a half I am supposed to update my current outline. The problem is that to write a framework of a final product you have to know what you want the final project to look like. You have to know your audience, what style you are writing in, and what message you […]