Goals for Thursday, June 5: 

Spend the first two hours fact checking my review of the lit with the readings and citing more properly. Then I will edit my 4000 words and send them to my collaborators.

Assessment of today's goals:

 Goals for Wednesday, June 4:

Switch from the intro/statement of the problem/review of the lit, which was bogging me down in checking citations for accuracy. That task will take a lot more time and can be done after camp. Instead, I will continue describing my assigned part of the methodology to get back some of the flow I lost yesterday. 

I am debating when I should send my co-authors a draft of what I've been doing so they can give me feedback and also see how their sections could fit.  I think I will text one of them today and see if she thinks that she and our other author would benefit from seeing it, even though it needs accuracy checks from the readings and probably a reorganization. Also, my points of view on the controversy our research raises do not necessarily coincide with their points of view. 

Assessment of Today's Goal:

I drafted my section ot the Methodology. I knew it would go fast because Methods is the easiest section to write. Now I have almost 4000 words; the journal we are submitting to wants no more than 8000, so we may have to cut when the entire article is put together.  I did text my collaborators and they wanted to see my draft sooner rather than later. 

 Goal for today, June 3:

Continue editing the 1800 words to make it more streamlined and coherent and start reading one of the seminal and recnet articles from Systen, the journal we want to publish in (Xu & Gibbons, 2025). 

Assessment of my goal.

I continued editing and now have 2300 + words, which could be getting long for a the first sections of the article. I got through only 6 pages of the Xu & Gibbons and am still reading their review of the literature and checking out their sources. Some of them are set in China though and are not that relevant.   

 Goal for Monday, June 2

Outline the points in my Statement of the Problem with translingual language mixing research in writing and list the studies I will cite for each point or problem/aspect of a problem. I might be able to expand the outline into the actual Introduction: Statement of the Problem and Review of the Literature.  

Assessment of my Goal.

I wrote 1800 words of an Intro/Statement of the Problem/Review of the Literature. It's kind of a mess and all over the place, but it is launched, and I feel like I've broken the ice. Because I wanted flow though I didn't check the readings enough to confirm what they said and I'm missing readings I read a while ago. I citec readings I did recently and the ones in my conference ppts. I need to slow down and search through the readings. 

 Goals for Friday, May 30:

Read the second SHL study, email both my team and the author about both studies. Both emails can serve as a memo about both studies, 

Assessment of Goals:

I read the second SHL study, which was both exciting and relevant, wrote and sent both emails.

Over the weekend I read two more studies: a review of 111 translingual studies of K-12 education, which mapped many of the controversies about bilingualism, which we will do in our study, The second one was a language mixing study in a graduate school context by a very famous and prolific applied linguistics scholar, also relevant, but very jargony, which is not how we will write up our article.