Goals for Friday, June 7, the last day of dissertation camp.
Now that I've got the travel-language learning-identity essay out to readers for feedback, get back into our collaborative survey study.  Read over what I wrote at the last camp--the first 2 sections and look at our data and start to analyze it.  Collaborate on the analysis with Deirdre and Sidney.

Goals for Thursday, June 7:
Finish editing and send it to first reader.


Assessment of goals:
I finished editing (for the time being), sent it to my first reader and to my brother and sister.

Goals for Wednesday, June 6:
Edit the ms for smoothness and coherence; work on the ending


Assessment of Goals:
I now have another version that I also edited on paper.  I will implement the changes, probably make more changes, and send it out to my first reader (a Venezuelan of Italian ancestry who is my Italian conversation partner).  Next week I will send it to another Sicilian American heritage travel writer, who lives in Michigan, whom I met at a writer's camp and we became friends.  I also might send it to my brother and sister.

Assessment of goals for June 5:
I finished an entire draft--it's over 4000 words and 12 pages, but I'm not happy with the conclusion, with the sustained conveyance of the tradition/experience theme, and parts of it are clunky and perhaps superfluous.


Goals for June 5:
Work on the above issues of conclusion and theme, as well as on awkwardness and relevance of details and events.  Read it over out loud (in my office) to make edits.


Assessment of goals for June 5:

Goals for June 4.
Finish a draft.  Try not to get too bogged down in editing what you wrote last week because then you won't finish the entire story.

Assessment of Friday's goals:  It's now over 2400 words, so I met my goal to double the length.   I didn't finish it, but I edited and added to what I had and then continued the story. I'll try to finish a draft today.

Goal for June 1:
My goal is to write about another 1000 words toward finishing the essay.  I might need Monday to finish it.