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Writing a History Thesis - End of Month 3.

Thursday, April 5th, 2007

As has been pointed out by a few of friends and acquaintances, I have been slack with updating regarding my thesis progress. This is due to a number of reasons – the most obvious is that the majority of my time has been to actually writing the damn thing. I have my intro more or [...]

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When Politics gets Ugly

Monday, March 19th, 2007

It’s not often that I giggle from studying history. At this moment in time, considering the massive amount of time I’m expending on my honours thesis, the laughs are in short supply. But every now and then a tiny snippet of historical text causes me to crack a grin, usually when my brain is at [...]

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Writing a History Thesis - Weeks 5 & 6

Monday, February 26th, 2007

I’m presently losing track of which week I’m up to with regards to thesis study, and it looks like I may have miscounted. According to my spreadsheet where I keep track of the hours I spend on the thesis, I started my intensive journey on the 13th of January, and that makes today the end [...]

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Weeks three and four of thesis progress have been long indeed. They have been mixed with feelings of elation and hopelessness. Week three didn’t feature as many hours as I had hoped to put into research, however I did manage to get some high quality work done, or at least what I consider high quality. [...]

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Writing a History Thesis - Thesis Week 2.

Friday, February 2nd, 2007

Technically, this entry could be called thesis week two and three, but I’ll just say two, as week three hasn’t finished yet. Well, I’ll be brief - I wasn’t as productive as week one. The reasons why, well, I’m grasping to comprehend the reasons, and simply, there just aren’t any. I suppose laziness is a [...]

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Writing a History Thesis - Week 1

Saturday, January 20th, 2007

I’ve been working pretty much solidly on my thesis research for the best part of week. By the end of today I will have clocked up around about 23 hours of research work. I’m rather pleased that I managed to get that much done, considering I also did three days of paying work, and managed [...]

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