The class will not meet again until the end of the month. (Monday March 28 ~ Tuesday March 29). Please note that the first draft of your Methods & Analysis sections, or whatever you are calling them, is due that day. I prefer to receive this as a single document. If you make any notable changes to your Introduction & Lit Review please include that as well.
I will be available by email in the meantime. This should be an interesting stretch of the interstate.
The Editing Process: Apparently the
Washington Post put a story online that
wasn't actually finished, and accidentally included all the editors' notes. Thought you might enjoy this as we seem to be in a similar phase with 490.
Aaron, should our methodology and/or analysis be in first person? Those of us in Jeannie's class were told for last semester's paper not to use first person except for our interdisciplinary rationale. I feel the methodology and analysis would naturally talk about how "I did this, and then I did that," but 1) is that proper and, 2) will it stand out as odd if the prior parts of our paper were NOT in first person? In other words, is it more appropriate to keep the paper in the same person throughout, or is there leeway in these areas?
ReplyDeleteThe answer is really discipline specific. The hard sciences favor using "the study will" instead of personal pronouns like "I will" etc. Jeannie feels this is also true in the social sciences, but I think she's being overly strict on that point and certainly in management and the humanities that rule is totally out the window. Do as your faculty mentor does and as the journals in your discipline do.
ReplyDeletethanks for pointing out the Washington Post story. Hilarious.
ReplyDelete...and I mean the notes from the editor!
ReplyDeleteHello Aaron,
ReplyDeleteThanks for that article on the mistakes the editor was making while trying to correct his writer, that was funny.
Quick question- After the methods of analysis section, there is also an evidence section. I don't see it on the timeline so I am wondering if this section is to be combined with the methods of analysis section.
"Evidence" is just an alternate name for the analysis section. Naturally your analysis will need to appeal to some evidence, otherwise you are just, as my younger students are wont to say, "pulling things out of your butt." So these are not really two separate sections unless you have some strong desire to separate them. Often in the natural sciences the presentation of data/evidence comes first and then the analysis, but for humanities, business, and social science we usually tend to present them together.
ReplyDeleteAaron, though I know this is more of a 491 question than a 490 one, I was wondering if BIS provides any examples of previous PowerPoint presentation examples like 390 and 490 tend to show examples of written reports?
ReplyDeleteHmmm. You might try emailing Alan More. Isn't that the guy who used to teach 491?
ReplyDeleteI believe he is the guy who was supposed to teach us this semester, but I wasn't sure if he was back after his surgery. I could try him, though. Thanks.
ReplyDeleteOne more thing, just for clarity -- I'm assuming our Methodology will be changing from last semester's "what I'm GOING to do" to this semester's "this is what I DID do" type of rewording? In other words, it is possible that much of what we wrote for 390's methodology will be rewritten based on what we were actually able to do/find/analyze?
ReplyDeleteBeth, yes you should make sure the curtain matches the drapes.
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ReplyDeleteI've spent my last two weeks( spring break and prior week) in editing my intro, literature review and re-writing my methodology. Dr. Winter, you've mentioned above that we can re-submit all the works I have re-done. So- I will be sending you my intro, lit. review and methodology section for Monday's class deadline.
ReplyDeleteMany thanks and hope that everyone had a nice spring break- redoing all the work like I did.
If our analysis is still a work in progress, is that an acceptable draft? In other words, if it's still unfolding, as opposed to needing to be tweaked. The research necessary to do a slightly in-depth analysis on my 10 subjects took me quite a bit longer than I thought.
ReplyDeleteAlso, when did you want our mentors' comments on the intro and lit review? My mentor has always been very good at getting things back to me on things, but I've been waiting on his comments for about five weeks now. I'm hoping he's going to give me a hard copy tomorrow when we meet. I asked about it nearly three weeks ago and he admitted he had forgotten.
Analysis section... just so long as you have something this week for your partners to review or give you advice about. There's lots of time left so "work in progress" is a good way to put it. As for mentors' comments, your mileage may vary.
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