Today I spent the day revising my prospectus for the fifth time. The process of writing this one was not as long as what it has taken for it to be returned after revision from my chair. That is not to say that professors take long in returning our work, because I realize I am not their only student. But that it does take patience to wait and see what I need to fix before sending it back again, and again until it fits our university standards.
I appreciate such scrutiny much more after reading many research papers and dissertations that are not as clear as I would wish them to be. I only hope mine will turn out to be as clear as water through a stream. I just sent it out again and will wait patiently for feedback.
By patiently I mean I will spend the next week drafting organizational documents for further research as indicated by various online workshops I attended online. More on that later, I just added it because as I am learning, the life of a scholar does not stop while waiting for feedback. We rather continue to “read to write”. This is a never ending process… which is why we get into such programs to begin with!
The Process... 