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Small chances; their taking hold remains<br \/>\nundetermined. <\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s a excessively florid way of saying that these are days of starts and<br \/>\nstops. The prospectus and hearing determine certain aspects of the project.<br \/>\nThe approximate <i>plan<\/i> gains approval, wins assent to move ahead. But<br \/>\nwhat, exactly, comes next? More reading? Tentative, provisional writing?<br \/>\nConversation? Research activity? Yes, all of it. What proportions or<br \/>\nratios among them? How do certain streams merge, diverge, overshadow the<br \/>\nothers?<\/p>\n<p>Advice varies. I won&#8217;t run through all of it now. Instead, I want to list a<br \/>\nfew of the things that crowd together under the canopy of &quot;dissertating.&quot;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Re-reading inspirational materials. Mulling over the few items in a highly selective gathering, a store of kick-start ideas and favorite theori(es\/sts). Not writing by inspiration alone, but<br \/>\n\treading as inspirational (i.e., the stuff that, when reading, makes you want<br \/>\n\tto tell someone about it, makes you want to shout; reading that excites,<br \/>\n\tbecause not all of it does).<\/li>\n<li>Conversation with committee members and mentors. Ongoing.<br \/>\n\tInvaluable. A <i>must<\/i>.<\/li>\n<li>Note-keeping, list-making, and drawing (cluster graphs, etc.).<\/li>\n<li>Writing, drafting&#8211;where page counts begin to accumulate. <\/li>\n<li>Elimination (or e-<i>liminal<\/i>) reading. Thresholds: how much of this<br \/>\n\twill the dissertation tolerate? A speculative game, trailing <i>maybe-this?<\/i><br \/>\n\tdown the tapering, increasingly overgrown (forgotten? never-trodden?)<br \/>\n\tpathways suggested by mentors, allies, and other Friends of the Project.<br \/>\n\tOffered in a spirit of generosity, such assemblages might contribute, but<br \/>\n\tmore likely much of it will not, not directly or explicitly. A line<br \/>\n\tfrom my prospectus hearing on May 14: &quot;Expect to read 100 times more than<br \/>\n\tyou will end up using or citing.&quot;<\/li>\n<li>Conversation with colleagues, fellow dissertators, and interested<br \/>\n\tothers. On vacation, among family: &quot;Tell us about your dissertation.&quot; <\/li>\n<li>Staring off in the distance.<\/li>\n<li>Refining the data. Combing through what has been collected and assembled already.<br \/>\n\tTuning and sorting. Working through the research processes still needed<br \/>\n\tfor specific sections of the project. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>These (and others I have forgotten and, therefore, neglected for now) are<br \/>\nprocessually interrelated, co-occurring, and complex. The combination of<br \/>\nactivities, I&#8217;m beginning to understand, can&#8217;t be fully understood on the front<br \/>\nend as if scripted or even fully advisable (measured like a recipe). This is<br \/>\nwhat we mean by inquiry, no? This is what we mean by the dissertation as a<br \/>\nbest attempt, a practice book, and so on. This half-understood, undecidable <i><br \/>\nhow-to<\/i> is the hard part at the phase transition spanning from exams to such<br \/>\nriveting opening sentences as &quot;In society today, rhetoric and composition&#8230;.&quot;<br \/>\nSo&#8211;no shock-you-off-your-seat surprise in this&#8211;I&#8217;m still learning the project,<br \/>\nstill trying to handle it each and every day, and finding daily affirmation as<br \/>\nmuch in &quot;Let no fears, inhibitions, or apprehensions stand in its way&quot; as from<br \/>\nthe aphorisms that emphasize pleasure, as in &quot;Demand of yourself, among many<br \/>\nother reasonable things, that writing the dissertation be a labor of love (at<br \/>\nleast intense <i>like<\/i>)&quot; or &quot;Remember to enjoy it.&quot;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">\u23f3 Approximate reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> 2<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">mins<\/span><\/span>Putting down a few thoughts about my own dissertation phase transition seems inevitably to scatter, prone to it&#8217;s early, the many-directions-remain-a-possibility starburst, like the gust-thrown seeds from a maturing dandelion blossom. 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