I haven’t looked at my thesis since Friday. Well, that’s a lie, (I couldn’t help it) but I haven’t worked on it since Friday! I am lucky enough to be able to take time away from my work so that I can come back to it with a clear head.
It was just Friday when I turned in my first draft but even in that short amount of time I have forgotten some of the changes that I wanted to make. I’m positive that I’ll remember them as I re-read my draft. In the next few days I am going to review and incorporate feedback from my supervisor at the U.S. Geological Survey and meet with my advisor to get some notes. I expect to have to do some major rewrites. As of now, here is what I think needs some work:
- My paper is too long. Way too long. Or at least it feels like it’s long in all the wrong places.
- I want to expand my discussion of political ecology but I’m not exactly sure in what ways. Talk more about the literature that the field was founded on? Discuss the ways that political ecology has led to some measurable change in the realm of environmental solution-making? Get a better grasp on what the field really means?
- I think I need to talk more about post politics. My discussion right now is brief and does not make the connections between my case study and the post politics clear. I’ll have to expand my foundational knowledge about post politics and probably define what I mean by the word politics (and its relationship to “the political”).
- My discussion of Latour and his new constitution seems to cut off a little too quickly but I’m not sure exactly what to say or how to say it.
- I don’t feel as thought I have a conclusion yet. I haven’t really applied my findings to other situations. My hourglass is wonky.
Above are just big picture notes. There’s still plenty of medium and small stuff to work on (I’m sure it’s riddled with spelling errors). Now that there’s something down on paper, it’s going to be difficult throw big chunks of it away. But a draft is a draft.
Tomorrow I’ll start working again. Tonight I’m still on break.
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