Sunday, February 12, 2006

Making good progress

I have spent a good part of the weekend working on my dissertation, which still seems like a never-ending task. I managed to get the participant information completed and finalise the list of questions for my interviews, which is a good couple of tasks ticked of the list. I am meeting with the head of planning this week to confirm who I will interview and then I can get the interviews booked in. I really need to get these done as I think this is stopping me progressing much further. I suppose it is obvious really that I cannot start the results section without the interviews being completed and this will really let me crack on with pulling the whole thing together.

The deadline is early April, but I am determined to have it finished mid March so I get my supervisors comments. I also met this week with someone who is doing a dissertation on the same course and we had a good chat about the problems completing the dissertation when you have been out of education for so long. I am used to writing reports at work, but they are often based on opinion and do not require everything to be referenced in the same way. I will be glad when it is all finished and I can get my life back!