Assessment of June 8 goals
I finished a draft although I'm not satisfied with it, since I didn't explicitly address Research Question #3. I'm using a coding scheme I really like that 2 authors came up with. I had written an article for the edited collection one of those authors did. I had also told both of them about the conference presentation I had done based on the data and the feedback I had gotten on it from the audience. I made the rather bold decision to ask them if they'd look over my draft to make sure I hadn't misunderstood anything, and they said yes! I'll probably send it to them this afternoon.
Goals for today June 9
Go back and figure out how to more explicitly address RQ #3 and also possibly remove some of my comments that could be construed by the authors I'm sending it to as critical; for example, when I say their scaffolding strategies "don't tell the whole story." Does any research instrument ever tell the whole story?
I'm inspired by your assessment. Of course my advisors are in music, but they are not water ballet experts. I've thought about contacting some of the other scholars whose work I have studied, but it seems like a very scary thing to do. I'm glad the authors you contacted said yes! Hooray!
ReplyDeleteAnd what a quick turn around! They sent me feedback today. Turns out I had misunderstood a few key features of their scheme. They gave me lots of comments and corrections, which will really help me revise.
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