Re: Three chapters question
- From: ms lynch <amy.wordnerd@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: comptesol@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 3 Jan 2006 11:20:55 -0500
Hi, Dave,
I'm doing a theoretical diss, so I don't have a methodology chapter. But, I
know Joanna wrote hers already: You out there, Joanna? Or, you might skim
the dissertations in the IUP library--I think some are accessible online,
but I'm unsure. Chris and Sharlene did some work with the dissertation
database last summer--do you guys know?
A
On 1/3/06, David Ray Golden <d.r.golden@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hidely-ho, scholarinos! Long time, no chat.
>
> Happy New Year! Just to show you how pathetically (at least
> educationally) my new year is starting off, I have a very pedestrian
> question about the first three chapters of the dissertation: When
> writing the chapter on metholodoly, what tense do you use? I mean,
> eventually, it's all going to be in past tense (once your study is
> done), but right now all that theoretical work is still to be done in
> the future. So do you write it "I will" and then go back and change
> EVERY use of verb tense? Or do you just engage in a little creative
> fiction and write as if you've already done all that work?
>
> Yeah, I know: it's really sad that this is a big issue in my life.
> Clearly, the choices I have made in life that have brought me to this
> point were poor ones. I should have listened to my high school
> guidance counselor who said the real future was in Betamax repair, or
> possibly I should have further pursued my dream of being the second
> Vanilla Ice.
>
> Later,
> DAVE
>
>
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