2005-09-16 07:37:01藍
From nothing to something
卧病在床二十多小時後，身體總算恢復了一點。
也許是心裡的牽掛太多，無論怎努力也不能安然的躺臥在床上休息。 看看鬧鐘，清晨五時三十分，是我寫論文的最佳時間。 給自己一個念頭: 休息足夠了吧，未完的工作還多呢。
Writing Chinese is really a practice for me, in particular it is an ensuring process in training up my patience. Under normal circumstance, it takes more than three times in typing Chinese characters than English for the same expression of message. Therefore, completing every sentence itself is already a daunting task. Thanks for my self-retrospection; I found that graduate improvement is underway. It’s the essential fuses for one to move on.
There’s another paper due in about 10 days. It’s a qualitative research study report. Unlike other previous papers, I put this report in mind about a week ago and started searching references and materials ever since then. To quite a number of people, this is still a bit unprepared but to me, it’s already a breakthrough. I usually start writing up a paper within a few days or at times within 24 hours before the submission date. Partly because I felt ashamed of not having sufficient readings in the previous 1-2 months, the more important part is I admired this Professor very much that drives me to prepare this report“earlier”. The work must have made certain contribution towards discussion in the field, I thought. The point is: where to start? I don’t even have a concrete idea on the topic. Not to mention about the data collection process.
Waking up at 5:30am this morning, I then took out Wolcott’s book of “Writing up Qualitative Research” to read. Never did I expect I would get the plans of working it out by finish reading the first two chapters. Somehow, these phrases got into my thought: “….. Are the words of Clifford Geertz sufficiently encouraging, that it is “not necessary to know everything in order to understand something” (Geertz 1973:20)? If your answer is that you need first to consult six more volumes in the library, or spend six more weeks in the field, before you will be ready, you may possess an enviable capacity for thoroughness, but I have doubts about you as a writer. If you have something to say, can you sit down immediately (why not today?) and turn your hand to writing?” Surprisingly, I got up and went to the study room : turn on the computer and started writing up my ideas on the research right after reading this part. Wolcott told us three writing plans in his book: Plan 1 – Commit the paper with the statement of purpose. Plan 2 – Have a detailed written outline. Plan 3 – Thought about the story and the representation style. Partly due to the sufficient rest in the previous day, the above conventional ideas engaged with my previous knowledge instantly.
Within 20 minutes, a rough plan of the intended qualitative study comes up. How miracle !
也許是心裡的牽掛太多，無論怎努力也不能安然的躺臥在床上休息。 看看鬧鐘，清晨五時三十分，是我寫論文的最佳時間。 給自己一個念頭: 休息足夠了吧，未完的工作還多呢。
Writing Chinese is really a practice for me, in particular it is an ensuring process in training up my patience. Under normal circumstance, it takes more than three times in typing Chinese characters than English for the same expression of message. Therefore, completing every sentence itself is already a daunting task. Thanks for my self-retrospection; I found that graduate improvement is underway. It’s the essential fuses for one to move on.
There’s another paper due in about 10 days. It’s a qualitative research study report. Unlike other previous papers, I put this report in mind about a week ago and started searching references and materials ever since then. To quite a number of people, this is still a bit unprepared but to me, it’s already a breakthrough. I usually start writing up a paper within a few days or at times within 24 hours before the submission date. Partly because I felt ashamed of not having sufficient readings in the previous 1-2 months, the more important part is I admired this Professor very much that drives me to prepare this report“earlier”. The work must have made certain contribution towards discussion in the field, I thought. The point is: where to start? I don’t even have a concrete idea on the topic. Not to mention about the data collection process.
Waking up at 5:30am this morning, I then took out Wolcott’s book of “Writing up Qualitative Research” to read. Never did I expect I would get the plans of working it out by finish reading the first two chapters. Somehow, these phrases got into my thought: “….. Are the words of Clifford Geertz sufficiently encouraging, that it is “not necessary to know everything in order to understand something” (Geertz 1973:20)? If your answer is that you need first to consult six more volumes in the library, or spend six more weeks in the field, before you will be ready, you may possess an enviable capacity for thoroughness, but I have doubts about you as a writer. If you have something to say, can you sit down immediately (why not today?) and turn your hand to writing?” Surprisingly, I got up and went to the study room : turn on the computer and started writing up my ideas on the research right after reading this part. Wolcott told us three writing plans in his book: Plan 1 – Commit the paper with the statement of purpose. Plan 2 – Have a detailed written outline. Plan 3 – Thought about the story and the representation style. Partly due to the sufficient rest in the previous day, the above conventional ideas engaged with my previous knowledge instantly.
Within 20 minutes, a rough plan of the intended qualitative study comes up. How miracle !