{"id":3,"date":"2011-02-05T07:47:00","date_gmt":"2011-02-05T07:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kooleady.ca\/thoughts\/?p=3"},"modified":"2011-02-05T08:22:21","modified_gmt":"2011-02-05T08:22:21","slug":"thoughts-readings-snippets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kooleady.ca\/thoughts\/?p=3","title":{"rendered":"PhD Proposal: Getting Started"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-11\" href=\"http:\/\/kooleady.ca\/thoughts\/?attachment_id=11\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-11\" title=\"kooleady\" src=\"http:\/\/kooleady.ca\/thoughts\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Picture-1-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"That's me!\" hspace=\"40px\" vspace=\"40px\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>It occurred to me as I exercise my avoidance and procrastination muscles, that it might be beneficial to start a blog. I&#8217;ve spent several days now jotting down ideas of how to get started on my PhD proposal. Obviously, the best way is to simply get started.<\/p>\n<p>So far, I have started writing the first two paragraphs explaining the philosophical orientation of my intended work. Then, I started creating folders for the most significant aspects of the proposal:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>theoretical articles &amp; references<\/li>\n<li>papers about phenomenography<\/li>\n<li>papers about learner-identity<\/li>\n<li>papers about threshold concepts and reflectivity<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I am now ready to type out the headings for the main sections of the proposal.<\/p>\n<p>The main thing to keep in mind is the scope of the proposal: 3000 words.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It occurred to me as I exercise my avoidance and procrastination muscles, that it might be beneficial to start a blog. I&#8217;ve spent several days now jotting down ideas of how to get started on my PhD proposal. Obviously, the best way is to simply get started. So far, I have started writing the first [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[10,3,9,6,5],"class_list":["post-3","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-phd-2","tag-lancaster-university","tag-phd","tag-proposal","tag-readings","tag-studies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kooleady.ca\/thoughts\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kooleady.ca\/thoughts\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kooleady.ca\/thoughts\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kooleady.ca\/thoughts\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kooleady.ca\/thoughts\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3"}],"version-history":[{"count":24,"href":"https:\/\/kooleady.ca\/thoughts\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34,"href":"https:\/\/kooleady.ca\/thoughts\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3\/revisions\/34"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kooleady.ca\/thoughts\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kooleady.ca\/thoughts\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kooleady.ca\/thoughts\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}