Issues With My Topic! #$%#%&*&(^%@%$^&:=)
Aside from not posting a blog message on a regular basis, I'm finding it difficult to get pumped and geeked about my impending grad project. It is really hard to describe my uncertainty and anxiety about this situation, but I have a feeling that it has a lot to do with the process of diving, somewhat reluctantly, into a multi-dimentional, "professional," project, balancing and interpreting many different social, mental, academic, and intellectial perspectives.
I have been involved with writing centers since my return to college in 1998. I have participated in many discourses concerning writing center operation, policy, and politics, but I now fear that my interest has waning. I still think W.C.s are viable laboratories for understanding literacy and the process of written communication, but I'm having sort of an existential (I noticed the word "empirical" in the dictionary definition of existential - Huh?!?) about my choice of subject. First off, I think my initial premise in studying writing center environments is kind of dumb and pointless. This belongs in the rhelm of people who design and construct actually spaces, not those who are supposed to be analyzing text within a specific situation. I have many interests and curiosities, but I need to make the right choice at this point in the research process to ultimately be successful and insightful in whatever I decide to do to gain that Master's Degree.
What to do, what to do, what to doo-doo?!?
I have been involved with writing centers since my return to college in 1998. I have participated in many discourses concerning writing center operation, policy, and politics, but I now fear that my interest has waning. I still think W.C.s are viable laboratories for understanding literacy and the process of written communication, but I'm having sort of an existential (I noticed the word "empirical" in the dictionary definition of existential - Huh?!?) about my choice of subject. First off, I think my initial premise in studying writing center environments is kind of dumb and pointless. This belongs in the rhelm of people who design and construct actually spaces, not those who are supposed to be analyzing text within a specific situation. I have many interests and curiosities, but I need to make the right choice at this point in the research process to ultimately be successful and insightful in whatever I decide to do to gain that Master's Degree.
What to do, what to do, what to doo-doo?!?
posted by Scott Schuer | 3:06 PM
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