Entries from Kelake tagged with 'Grad School'
Betelnut girl: Not Always What You Expect
The silly things you do when you have free time. Ruby, "Funny Guy", and I went out one night (over 3 years ago) to film some betelnut girls for a class project. I remember wanting to pay a bunch...
A thesis is 7 days or less
The title says it all. I have 7 days to write a masters thesis. I'll let you know how it turns out, that is, if i am still alive in 7 days....
A look at focus groups.
At the suggestion of my advisor I will be conducting a focus group session as the main means of collecting some research data for a project. It's time to take a look at this method which is so prevalent...
Graduate School Survival Guide.
Graduate School Survival Guide."This guide provides concise suggestions for: getting the most out of the relationship with your reseach advisor or boss, getting the most out of what you read, making continual progress on your research, finding a thesis topic...
Advice to a young graduate student
Alex Soojung-Kim Pang has some excellent advice on her weblog for the young and I guess in my case not so young graduate student. I'll quote a few of the best tips from the two entries: Start keeping a notebook,...
Music as a Metaphor for Thesis Writing
"In the final throws of writing a doctoral thesis the struggle was to find a structure for presenting the vast amounts of literature that had to be integrated and synthesised to form a coherent whole and linking psychology and music,...
Start your Research
The expansion of the Internet and the development of the World Wide Web over the past decade have had a significant impact on research. The Internet can serve as a tool for finding information, a medium for networking and conducting...
How to Do Ethnographic Research
"The following section was authored by Barbara Hall and is intended to provide general, simplified information about how to conduct and write up the results of ethnographic research. The information that follows falls into three general areas: guidance through the...
Qualitative Research Resources
"This page contains links to resources that explain the art of qualitative educational research: critiques, literature reviews, research design methodologies and other articles. The resource is intended as an aid to educational practioners as informed consumers of published research and...
Interviewing method
"This report is a summary of a Master’s thesis by Sonja Susut, University of Regina. The study was designed to explore how a grade four teacher might interpret and re-tell, pedagogically, the lessons told by veterans about war. The object...
Grounded theory: a thumbnail sketch
This is intended as a brief overview. I’ve tried to provide just enough detail to serve as an overall framework. My intention is tosupport people using grounded theory, particularly for thesis purposes. I’ve written it particularly with psychology postgraduates in...
Introduction to Grounded Theory
The phrase "grounded theory" refers to theory that is developed inductively from a corpus of data. If done well, this means that the resulting theory at least fits one dataset perfectly. This contrasts with theory derived deductively from grand theory,...
Lightness and Exactitude: Personal Manifesto
Lightness and Exactitude Lightness In music, commercial visual design, and information design I have tried to subtract weight from the results of my labour. Noise, aggressiveness – like death. “To cut off Medusa’s head without being turned to stone, Perseus...
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