Day 2 of dissertation writing

Since the post yesterday, I had a change in schedule come up and had to change a few things. My plan was to spend 6 hours writing today, but I had to move half of it to Thursday. (I am joining Marsha Lovett on a talk about this work coming up on Wednesday, and got a chance to collaborate with her this afternoon.)

The draft of Ch1 is done. Rough Introduction in the can. It took 834 words, so my estimate was close. It also went faster than I expected, at only about 90 minutes. This left me time to get started on outlining Ch5 ahead of schedule. And I am going to need it.

Ch5 is titled "A Framework for SmartPD," and I can now tell it's going to be quite hard to write. This framework is one of the primary contributions of my work. I've only written about it 3 times total. This has been over the past 6 months or so. For me—like a lot of folks I think—I generally come to understand my work best by writing about it. 3 times over 6 months, in my experience, is very little writing on a topic.

The main points I need to get across in this chapter are what SmartPD is meant to be, what the research tells me about how to plan for building toward it, and how Clark and Hollingsworth’s Interconnected Model of Professional Growth (2002) contributes to it. So it's a lot. And I'm not yet sure how it will all fit together.

I put down 268 words on Ch5, and also copy-pasted a lot of older text to draw from. I'll get back to it tomorrow and see if I can make any better sense of it.