1 / 29

“ Writing The Prospectus and Defining Ourselves ” Heather Lynch, Doctoral Candidate, LL

http://globalconversationsindoctoralpreparation.wordpress.com. “ Writing The Prospectus and Defining Ourselves ” Heather Lynch, Doctoral Candidate, LL October 13, 2011. Moderator of Conversations in Doctoral Preparation.

saxton
Download Presentation

“ Writing The Prospectus and Defining Ourselves ” Heather Lynch, Doctoral Candidate, LL

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. http://globalconversationsindoctoralpreparation.wordpress.comhttp://globalconversationsindoctoralpreparation.wordpress.com “Writing The Prospectus and Defining Ourselves” Heather Lynch, Doctoral Candidate, LL October 13, 2011

  2. Moderator of Conversations in Doctoral Preparation • Dr. Peggy Albers, Professor, Language and Literacy, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA, USA, malbers2@gsu.edu

  3. Online interactive and participatory web seminars with a purpose to prepare doctoral students to work in the Academy • Website: http://globalconversationsindoctoralpreparation.wordpress.com • Doctoral students at all stages in their program are invited to present; Please contact Dr. Peggy Albers, malbers2@gsu.edu http://globalconversationsindoctoralpreparation.wordpress.com

  4. Elluminate Tools • The chat area: Please write comments in the chat area as you like; the presenters will address them as they discuss their work; • Questions: If you have questions for the presenters and would like to ask them, there are two options: 1) click on the hand icon and you can speak your questions live; 2) ask them in the chat area

  5. Tonight’s Presenter: Heather Lynch, Doctoral Candidate • Doctoral student • Research interests: video gaming and literacy; adolescent readers who struggle; multimodality • Defended her prospectus fall of 2011 • Doctoral advisor: Peggy Albers

  6. Writing The Prospectus and Defining Ourselves Presented by Heather L. Lynch

  7. What comes to mind when you imagine writing your prospectus?

  8. “The only journey is the journey within.”- Rainer Maria Rilke

  9. Conceptualizing My Prospectus

  10. Where to Start? • The Literature! • Helpful first steps: • Course Readings • Tip: Be thoughtful about designing your program of study. • Discussions with Advisor • Research Librarian • Directed Reading

  11. So Much to Read… I focused on the work of researchers who… • Make me nod my head as I read their work. • Talk about ideas that have room for development? • Would get along well at the ideological “dinner table” or… • Fill in gaps for each other.

  12. Developing Questions

  13. Methodologies Galore: Finding What Fits

  14. Taking Risks • “Avid Gamers” • “Symbiotic Flow” • Mediated Discourse Methods • Understandings of Quality • Participant Selection- emic/etic

  15. Defining Myself in My Prospectus

  16. Organizing to Write: OneNote

  17. Organizing to Write

  18. Organizing to Write

  19. Building My Committee • Criteria for My Committee: • Shared Philosophies About Research • Shared Perspectives Relating to What Matters in Literacy Education Writ Large • Productivity in their Own Work • Responsivity Towards Me Over Time • Interest in My Future Goals • Faculty Research Status

  20. Presentation: PPPPP

  21. Helpful Technology: Prezi.com

  22. Helpful Technology: Dropbox.com

  23. Show Time! • Logistics: • Practice ahead of time. • Get there early! • Have presentation available by multiple means. • Be prepared to record notes without distracting you for being in the moment. • Remind yourself that you know your stuff! • Aesthetics: • Coffee? • Snacks? • Have everything ready before professors and supporters show up.

  24. Celebrate! • Revel in the successes along the way (even the little ones)! • Include your loved ones in moments of celebration. • Take time to collectively look at your accomplishments. • Remind yourself of how far the journey has taken you!

  25. “The only journey is the journey within.”- Rainer Maria Rilke

  26. http://globalconversationsindoctoralpreparation.wordpress.comhttp://globalconversationsindoctoralpreparation.wordpress.com Thank you to Heather Lynch (and best of luck on your dissertation!) October 13, 2011

  27. http://globalconversationsindoctoralpreparation.wordpress.comhttp://globalconversationsindoctoralpreparation.wordpress.com Please join us for our final Fall Doctoral Web Seminar Featuring Alisha White Doctoral Candidate “Writing for Publication” October, 27, 2011 https://sas.elluminate.com/m.jnlp?sid=221&password=M.DCEA30C3D167657385102E3CC6E786

  28. Please take our CDP Survey! • After tonight’s session, please take time to complete our survey; we are always trying to make these web seminars as relevant to you and your studies as they can be • http://globalconversationsindoctoralpreparation.wordpress.com

More Related