Thursday, August 5, 2010

My PhD Proposal 2

My supervisor's comments on Research Methodology:
i. Introd-needs further discussion
ii. Research design-too brief & needs further discussion
iii. Population & sample-needs a larger sample size
iv. Data analysis-needs to link models with objectives
v. Framework-needs further discussion

My actions now:
i. Re-search & extend discussions on relevant parts as required

Wednesday, August 4, 2010

Writing & publish


We are not trained to be a writer. As a child, we learned and practiced writing only for school exercises. The same experience continued at the university level i.e. writing only for academic purpose. Writing a diary or making notes is not common in our daily live. We are actually 'don't like to write' and 'don't know what & how to write'.
My experience of writing a book is very challenging. I found it is very difficult at organizing facts and elaborating them. Feeling fear of giving wrong points is there, almost all the time. I failed to give some 'life' to the book. In other words, the book is of 'no life' i.e. 'too dry'. But it serves the academic purpose well.
Next move is to start writing articles for conferences & journals. If compared to books, writing articles is short but must be very specific, very current, follow certain standard of refernce, preferred empirical & fully analyzed. So, lets start writing...we can start by writing blog!. Enjoy writing. Lets writing enlighten and broaden our live!