I put in a solid few hours working on my thesis today. I did fall rather short of the five pages I was aiming for, but I got two pretty good ones, bringing my total to four. It’s so much slower going when I have to look up references and insert footnotes and all that. Also, I’m waiting for a couple of books that I need to cite, so there are some pretty big gaps in what I can write right now. With luck those books will show up this week and I can get that bit out of the way.<\/p>\n
Probably the biggest part of the challenge is that I’m not confident about how to incorporate methodology, theory, previous research, et cetera<\/i> into a smoothly flowing paper. It all seems so clunky. What’s wrong with just telling an interesting story, anyway? I know, I know, it’s not “scientific,” but damn it, Jim, I’m a historian, not a scientist! In my most recent years of study I’ve learned that “descriptive” is just about the worst thing a proper academic text should be. I don’t know if it’s my age showing, or different systems, or god, who knows … all I know is that I earned lots of As on lots of descriptive papers in my undergrad days. It’s a whole new world, it seems.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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