Wednesday, March 21, 2007

Questions

After reading my 3 page 'manuscript', my first reader, Dr. Skidmore, writes:
I am also a bit concerned that the focus of your paper keeps changing. While this may have an educational benefit in the sense that you are looking at your topic – hypnosis – from many different angles; it does have the limitation of putting you back at square one again.
And:
It seems you have jumped from overly broad to overly narrow.
And:
Now, before you revise your paper (or write a new draft), the next steps I suggest would be for you to (a) Write your primary research question, and any related secondary questions, (b) obtain scholarly articles that address these questions, and then (c) outline the structure of your paper.

That seems straightforward enough, but not very heartening. Since recieving this feedback yesterday at 5:37 PM I have searched the psych databases for work by the scholars that he has recommended (Herta Flor, John Gruzelier, and Helen Crawford). I found some stuff, but mostly I think I need to go to the library and scour some specific journals. I can't find my student ID card, so I'm going to have a hard time checking stuff out of the library-good thing journals can't be checked out in the first place!

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