I have done this so often, and have never come to think of how a student feels when they are about to open their email with feedback from the writing centre. Today, the tables are turned on me. I submitted a draft. Yes, a draft in its most raw form. It is an important draft - my dissertation proposal. My dreams of graduating and finally enrolling for a PhD are tied to this draft. If at least the supervisors give it a nod, I will be one step closer to achieving a dream.
I have been making excuses about the quality of my draft. First, my work schedule was just packed, so I worked during the night. Second, my Word setting suddenly did not track typo and grammar errors. Third, and most importantly, I could have either edited the draft and missed the deadline, or just submitted the draft.
My conscience does not want to accept these excuses. My major irritation at the Writing Centre is with students who submit drafts just as the one I submitted to my supervisors. I should be hanging my head in shame. I am even scared to open the document. So, I am blogging about my fears, instead of blogging about the feedback I received. Pity, my system cannot take anything stronger than a cough mixture because I sure do not need a shot of courage.
Will be back to tell you whether the dream lives on or if I should be turning a hobby into a career. So here is to a PhD or a curtain maker.
Tuesday 27 March 2012
Tuesday 13 March 2012
Problems with choosing a theory
Welcome to my blog. As the title says, this space is meant to help me with my thoughts on my postgraduate studies, which are coincidentally based on my work as a consultant. In my professional work I do a lot of drafting before I can post anything, but here I shall be posting my thoughts 'unaldulturated'. Your input is meant to help me refine these thoughts.
A bit of background: I am enrolled for a Masters in ICTs in Education. My area of interest is on the use of social networks in the writing centres to mediate the challenges of accessibility as well as to provide anytime, anywhere support to.
What I wish to investigate is whether students' social presence awareness of writing consultants in a social network such as Facebook affects their writing self efficacy beliefs.
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My challenge is grounding the study on to a sound and most appropriate theory. The most popular theory in writing centre work is social construction. However, most studies on self efficacy awareness are grounded on Bandura's Socio-Cognitive Theory. And then there is Lave and Wenger's Community of Practice. How do I get to select the most appropriate theory?
A bit of background: I am enrolled for a Masters in ICTs in Education. My area of interest is on the use of social networks in the writing centres to mediate the challenges of accessibility as well as to provide anytime, anywhere support to.
What I wish to investigate is whether students' social presence awareness of writing consultants in a social network such as Facebook affects their writing self efficacy beliefs.
.
My challenge is grounding the study on to a sound and most appropriate theory. The most popular theory in writing centre work is social construction. However, most studies on self efficacy awareness are grounded on Bandura's Socio-Cognitive Theory. And then there is Lave and Wenger's Community of Practice. How do I get to select the most appropriate theory?
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