Day 29

I finally finished up the FGD analysis by adding in the discussion portion, and sent it in to my supervisor. I am (obviously) very very thankful that it was received positively, but there is still a lot of tweaking and amendments that I need to do and look at, to make it flow better and to improve the structure of the entire analysis. One thing I had to constantly look at was to make sure that I was not repeating myself and was being as concise as possible, as I ramble on and go in circles quite easily. Especially with regards to the discussion, I was quite anxious to make sure that it was clear and made sense, and that I was not merely repeating what I had said earlier when reporting the findings. I am unsure if I want to throw in some theories, or if there are theories which I can relate to the discussion itself (will need to do more research to find that out). I am also unsure if I have addressed sufficient issues in my discussion that were raised when reporting the findings. I will probably need to take note of that and figure it out.

I am beginning to develop a backlog for my reflections as well, which is not a good thing as they do take quite a while to clear. Thankfully I have developed the habit of somehow taking short notes and saving them as drafts before publishing a brand new reflection each day, so that even if I am unable to publish a new reflection on the blog, at least I will be able to remember what I did and what I learnt when I finally do get down to writing out the blog entry reflections in full.

I also started looking for better ways to source for more literature for the literature review. Because I know that the review is due soon, I need to start focusing on the literature review again, and not become too engrossed o\in the FGD analysis alone. I find that I still need to find a better way to manage my time and split my time up between my work, as I tend to get stuck on one and become reluctant to leave it to go on to the next one (even though that is necessary to ensure that I do not over work just one portion of my brain - or at least that I do not run out of time to complete the other piece of work). I know that the literature review is due soon, and I iwll nee to start focusing on that as well and not merely on the FGD analysis. However, as usual, it was quite a frustrating day to search for articles, because there is as usual a lack of articles.

I am really beginning to sense a huge gap in research which for some reason has not garnered the attention of researchers sufficiently enough for anybody to start pouring new research into.

hopefully tmr will be better for that at least.