Thesis Schedule

Well here's the next steps in the Masters plan, amazing and quite frightening to think this massive work is due a brief 15 weeks from now.

Proposed Timeline (Sunday evening deadlines):

Week of:

Feb 6 – finish PW revisions, sort out sample, re-draft survey statements into questions, revise question order for better flow, notes on methodology papers, read fuzzy logic paper – summarize like RK says existing articles, hopefully receive and complete DK revisions

Feb 13 – initial discussions with sample participants, prepare invitation letters and consent forms, draft new abstract (150 words – what, why, purpose, methodology, paradigm, key findings, conclusions, need), enter title in PATTS, Refworks all docs to date, longer detailed outline

Feb 20 – introduction – background (what, why, outline theoretical framework, context), article review and summary (3)

Feb 27 – statement of research problem/opportunity, research questions (whys), study limitations/delimitations, need or significance

March 6 – interviews, researcher perspective (coming clean on biases), article review and summary (3), transcription, study conduct

March 13 – interviews, transcription, research methodology details (data collection, participants, site, data analysis, reliability and validity), article review and summary (3)

March 20 – interviews, transcription

March 27 – comparison of survey results to interviews, coding, clean up anything not finished yet

April 3 – results and findings, outcome – descriptive first then specific to research questions, think about tables and figures

April 10 - follow up to interviews, transcriptions, results and findings

April 17 – discussion and conclusions re findings – hear the voice, summary of study, findings, interpretation of data, conclusion, implications, recommendations, need for future research

April 24 – write/edit

May 1 – write/edit

May 8 – write/edit, APA, references

May 15 HAND IN DRAFT

(with exception of deadline, likely subject to (ongoing) revision)