Yes, there was a draft in there.

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We had our peer review for the draft of the lit review/definitions essay, and I got some good feedback (especially for the introduction:  I had forgotten to introduce the overall research project, so the rest of the draft didn't make much sense).  I was working on the revision this morning when I suddenly thought of this blog.  I was really shocked when I saw how few entries I had.

One thing that I should have blogged about happened last Saturday.  I usually have to work on Saturdays, but I put in 38 hours last week, so I couldn't have any more hours (if I hit 40, they'd have to give me benefits, etc.).  I worked on school stuff for a few hours, and then I decided to watch Star Wars:  The Force Awakens again.  I needed to settle on the scenes I'm going to use in the research paper.  I'll talk more about this in my next post.

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What can you say about a Research Schedule?

Time Management
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And the answer is:  not much.  I've been spending a couple of hours a week thinking about this project and making notes about the film, but I'm not sure if I can actually pin down how much time I need for everything involved.  I need to have my bibliography and the final revision of my Review of Scholarly Literature done on March 12, which is not that far off now, so it's time to step it up. 

I'm now (as of this minute) planning on giving at least an hour a day, every day, until the two projects are done, and if I do more than an hour, I will NOT deduct that time from the next hour.  I will also probably have to adjust that daily hour upwards in order to get it all done, but I think an hour is a good starting point.  Here's my to-do list, in chronological order:

• Find at least six articles that use shame theory to analyze something comparable to a film.
• Find two more books on the theory (I already have one) AND reviews of the books from scholarly journals.
• Create the MLA citations.
• Start reading the articles (at least two a week), writing the annotations as I go.
• Decide on which articles to use for the lit review, then write summaries (remember, they have to define the terms I'll be using).
• Examine the books to see what I can get from them, prepare annotations (and summaries as above for the two I'm using for my lit review).

That's what I absolutely have to do, but I'd also like to do a starter analysis of the three scenes I want to use in the research paper, since that's my primary research and I won't know for sure how much and what kind of stuff I need from my secondary sources until the analysis is done.

And, I just decided that I'm not counting the time it takes to write my blog posts as part of my scheduled hour.  Now all I have to do is stick to the plan

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