←
→
owlfish: (Default)
Add MemoryShare This Entry

On the need for more bookshelf space

posted by [personal profile] owlfish at 02:39pm on 05/07/2004
The longer I work on my dissertation, the more I discover that I need to know about a very great deal indeed in order to become an expert on a very small topic. Everything's relevant. History of medicine, modern time/motion/efficiency studies, Greek romances, eighteenth century novels, ancient gods and goddesses, political idealism, painting techniques, construction techniques, writing techniques, anachronisms, folklore, and shopping all tell me useful things about my dissertation topic. When I commited to this topic three years ago, I wouldn't have thought any of them would be relevant.
←
→
There are 3 comments on this entry. (Reply.)
 

(no subject)

posted by [identity profile] lazyknight.livejournal.com at 01:54pm on 05/07/2004
I sympathize with the lack of shelf space -- I suffer from the same, and I only have pleasure-reading stuff to worry about (novels, cook books, the odd volume on mythology and folklore etc).
[link] [reply]
 

(no subject)

posted by [identity profile] easterbunny.livejournal.com at 03:35pm on 05/07/2004
You need the UK Documentary channel.
[link] [reply]
 

(no subject)

posted by [identity profile] griffinick.livejournal.com at 04:42am on 06/07/2004
Ah, the joys of thesing....
I think profs are just waiting for us to learn the valuable lesson that every research project always ends up ballooning from its original idea, at least in terms of what one must look at to understand what we set out to study. How sneaky of them.... Personally, I'm not really sure how in a dissertation on 14th century war supplying and social tension I wound up needing to review the Norman Conquest, but I did.
[link] [reply]

October

SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
1
 
 2
 
 3
 
 4
 
 5
 
 6
 
 7
 
8
 
 9
 
 10
1
 11
 
 12
 
 13
 
 14
 
15
 
 16
 
 17
 
 18
 
 19
 
 20
 
 21
 
22
 
 23
 
 24
 
 25
 
 26
 
 27
 
 28
 
29
 
 30
 
 31