This week has been interesting to say the least. At Tuesday's class, we received the upcoming due dates for our Multimodal Project # 1, interview transcripts, survey results and observation draft. If one ever wished to see a live public meltdown of a complete class, KEN 209B was the place to be, as our professor made all four assignments due in two weeks.
The realization then came that I although I have been (fairly) good at staying on top of my research, I am really going to have to kick it into high gear if I am going to have any chance of completing all my work before the due dates. So in the spirit of "git-r-done", this blog will be a checklist of what I need to do before the due dates.
- Multimodal Project # 1: This MM will be a brochure for the SWCA. I have a draft and I will need to edit it to make it final for printing and distribution. Excitingly, this brochure will be used for the SWCA, and I am debating whether or not to put my name on it for credit.
- Interview transcripts: I am (still) working on transcribing my first interview! I never knew the process would take this long, and I definitely underestimated the amount of effort it takes into transcribing interviews. I don't know if I am just over analyzing how I transcribe, but this task will be the hardest (and probably take the longest) time completing - especially because I will be doing four interviews next week! Looking on the bright side, four individuals that I have asked to interview have said yes. This weekend will be spent researching a brief biography on each and contextualizing my interview questions to fit within their experience.
- Survey results: My survey is complete and I now need to receive approval to begin distributing it. We had an interesting class last week where we debated the ethics of whom should be asked to take a survey. Applying the debate to my research, I will be emailing the survey to those at the writing center at my school, (possibly) emailing it to members of the SWCA and posting a link on the SWCA website. I need to complete this ASAP; if the results are due in two weeks, I need to get the survey out so people can actually take the darn thing.
- Observation draft: This is where my to do checklist comes to a screeching halt as I have yet to 100% decide what I will be observing. I am leaning towards observing the writing center at my institution and examining how I can apply that to the SWCA.
As Sod's Law predicts, according to my British counterpart, or on our side of the pond, Murphy does, "everything that can go wrong, will", as just this week the due dates for two oral presentations, another research paper and third journalism story have been announced and they are in two weeks as well! I just have to get it together and make sure I control my public meltdowns!
I feel this is partially due to my very public display of anxiety - haha
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