Senior Project
Remember that the idea of the journals is this: in them you will document your thinking about the project and the project work, keeping a record of both the progress of your work as well as the progress of your mindset.
Journal 2: You are now four weeks into your research and study of your topic. You may have started field work or attempted to make connections with potential field work collaborators. It’s time for you to do a “hard” reality check on yourself by contemplating the following questions:
- What are you doing well with your research? What do you need to work harder on?
- As you’ve learned “the basics” about your topic, what have you realized you need to learn more about?
- If you’ve started your field work, what are your early feelings about that? Have your surveys yielded useful data? What more do you need to understand from them or from additional surveys? If you’ve met or spoken with experts in your field, what have you learned from them? What more do you need to learn from them or others?
- In order to complete most of your learning and research by the end of March, what do you need to do in class and outside of class?
- Finally, what do you understand or feel strongly about with respect to your topic that you didn’t understand or feel strongly about four weeks ago?
Due in your blog on Thursday, March 9.
