Dissertation Diary 2016-04-21

Whew. I have a complete draft! I still need to wait for a few (hopefully minor) edits from a couple people, but the 188 pages and 43,961 words have been provisionally approved by my primary advisor. I spent 7 solid hours on Tuesday manually going thru all those pages checking for different detail things. Very…

Dissertation Diary 2016-04-14

This week I worked on detail edits and formatting. I think the front pages are right! I still can’t figure out how to do sharps and flats properly, but I think every thing else I flagged for details is close. Still waiting for some ILL sources before I do the details on citations. Don’t know…

Dissertation Diary 2016-04-07

whew! Last week after I went signature hunting, I got the paperwork turned in and approved for my Public Lecture. This week I had a productive meeting with a committee member, tightened up the reorganization of Chapters 3 and 4,  chased down three new sources, and requested two more via ILL, so that I can…