It was great to check in again earlier this week and get this proverbial ball rolling.

As mentioned in class, please remember the importance of the Library aka the Kean University Learning Commons in terms of resources for developing your thesis. We will connect with Craig Anderson on 11/2 for an online workshop. As always, I encourage you to try a few other workshops offered there in support of your ongoing academic work. It is always a good idea to get to know a librarian or two at Kean, while you work on your thesis and other projects overall.

Here are the agenda slides from last class:

We have already settled the presentation calendar together, and last night I referred to the concept of an Early Proposal. Please remember that by mid-October you should have your own (in-progress) Early Proposal document. This will be something you will work on continuously until the close of the semester. Between mid-October and mid- December it will transform from a “shell” early proposal into a formal thesis proposal.

I also refreshed your memory about the on-going practices that are key to your thesis work overall – some free-writing, mind mapping, and some possible reading/research. Each week, remember to generate lists, and re-engage your own process of discovery and invention, and map out your work for the week with the end goal post in mind.

Next week we will discuss the process of a developing an ongoing Lit Review, and you will continue to support each other in some peer-group conversations in our MA thesis class. You should have each settled upon your own working plan of for this coming week (remember the power of freewriting, mind mapping, and reading/research/note taking). You should now be developing a sense of your own individual benchmark goals. Please blog about that, and your actual progress over the course of this coming week. Write about you have been able to accomplish, and what is new in the process.

I will see you next week in class!