Using online resources should not be seen lazy at all. I can understand what the advisor actually means though. This happened with me too. I prepared a proposal for research whose bibliography included a lot of online sources. I assumed that it was enough for the primary stage of the proposal. But the panel while rejecting my proposal used this point in arguments, that I had not visited other university libraries and had not consulted the actual hard bound researches enough!
The Professors think is that internet makes it too easy for the new generation and when they compare it to their times they dont like this too much. They feel that effort being 'too easy' would make us less worthy of the reward. (They may have a point but I am not sure) Based upon my experience I feel that the professors are not fully acquainted with what one might term 'web2.0 research' A tiddlywiki is quite an appropriate candidate for a 'WEB2.0 Research'. In fact I pray that somebody who has already completed his research and is willing to share his TW or some portion of it as an example, take up this term 'WEB2.0 Research' and write an article on this along with his sample tiddlywiki. This article would go a long way in helping the professors form a favourable opinion about systems such as Tiddlywiki. I would also wish that in that article one should give a due attention to the programming and designing aspects of creating a tiddlywiki document so as to inform the reader that what he sees on screen and all the buttons and their wonderful effects have taken some good effort in the background. Regarding 'multimedia dissertation' I would say the term multimedia is so overused in education circles as none other. And i dare say that MS Powerpoint paradigm is proving to be a major obstacle in changing professors' attitude towards computers and their use in education. What they usually want is audio and video chunks along with text on slides. But in the end I would say it is as important to please your advisor as much as doing a good research. So think up of some innovative ways to 'package' your research for impressing the audience. Use impressive layout and colors for your tw when you submit it to your department. I know what I say may be taken to be unethical advice but I believe its better to do hard work and get a positive result than a negative one. all the best -shavinder On Jan 1, 2:28 am, David <[email protected]> wrote: > On Dec 31, 9:31 am, "[email protected]" <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Hi All > > I wrote my dissertation in Wordperfect... both times since a virus > > wiped it out the first time :( > > I nearly cried about a month ago when transferring participant > interviews from my digital recorder to my laptop and one of them > just ... vanished. I don't think I've lost a data file in 15 years. I > don't know why it didn't make it to the laptop, but my error was > erasing the digital recorder before I checked the files. I'm now > considering how best to create two recordings during interviews, just > in case. > > My other disappointment this semester was hearing my faculty advisor > say to our class that a dissertation that included references that > only came from online sources (meaning online scholarly databases, and > as opposed to the dusty bound volumes on the fourth floor of the > library) would be considered "lazy." She's been very supportive of my > ideas so far and has been stretching herself to use more new media in > her online classes, so the "lazy" comment surprised me. > > As for workflow, I've gotten TW a step closer to the ease of > Journler's drop box. I've created a folder on my desktop called > TiddlyWiki Drop Box, which is now where I save PDFs and other files > for research. I decided that a direct link to the file would be less > useful because it includes the full path name, so my first step for my > new files is to create aliases for all of them. I then move the > original files to my Journler drop box so they will be indexed there > as well, and the alias follows the file to its new location. That > leaves only aliases in my TW drop folder. I do all my work on my > laptop at home or on the campus, so TW and the files are always > together. Then using the FileDropPlugin, I drop the aliases on a TW > open in Firefox, and tiddlers are created for each automatically. I > have them automatically tagged with Research and New so that I can > easily pull them out of TW. I've changed the settings for > FileDropPlugin so that the link is displayed in the tiddler. I open my > tiddlers tagged New, click on the link, and the PDF opens in Preview. > So far I've been manually copying the citation, abstract, and > references to the tiddler, and then Skim through the PDF for any key > points, which I also copy to the tiddler, or summarize. Tags are > starting to be an interesting way to link authors across multiple > works and to all the works that cite them. I'm tempted to try using > the author's last name and year of publication as a wikiword and let > TW create the cross references for me, but I haven't tried that yet. > > My next workflow challenge will be attempting to do some of the > writing (at least in draft form) in TW. Your suggestions should come > in very handy, Richard. I actually think TW may improve my writing > process because I will be chunking it into smaller tasks. Right now > Word tends to increase my anxiety because I'm paying too much > attention to the page count and formatting as I go along. TW will let > me forget about most of that and concentrate on content. Word's > stylesheets will take care of the formatting later. Now if I can just > make the TW interface fade away and take over my entire screen > (seehttp://www.ommwriter.com/) I would be very happy indeed. Pandora and > iTunes can provide the tranquil audio if I really want it. > > My advisor has been pushing me to create a "multimedia dissertation." > There's only been one before on our campus, and it only was an online > repository to an archive of participant interviews on video, but the > diss itself was the traditional paper format. TW conjures up the > possibilities of a "single-file, self-editing, reusable non-linear > personal web dissertation" in all its hyperlinked and media-embedded > glory. But then, that would be "lazy," wouldn't it? :-) > > Thanks all! > > David -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki?hl=en.
