Research Advisor finally read my paper! Yay!!!11!!1!!!11!
She provided tons of comments, but nothing really major. It's mostly word-smithing and clarifying the logic in some passages plus rearranging a couple of tables. Two more substantial changes require a tweak to the stats using a method that is new to me (she explained how to do it, but I'm not sure I'll be able to pull it off on my own) and some retooling of a "broader context/implications" paragraph on which I will need to work with Academic Advisor. They will both be gone next week, but if I can get through everything else before then, there's still a chance I could submit it before the break.
I did have the opportunity and the mangoes to provide some "redirective" feedback that opened up a discussion on how this 9-month delay in comments happened and what we can do to prevent it in the future. That will be a separate post because I want to delete this series about RA specifically, but keeps pieces that are more general.
8 comments:
Glad you finally got your feedback! And it sounds pretty good - a bit more work but not like any sort of complete revamping. It was really 9 months?!
If you delete some posts, what I've done sometimes is keep them in draft form in my post list - just as my own personal journal items. I think that's what you were getting at!
I am glad! I hope you are able to prevent a similar problem in the future, but for now, I hope the paper goes in when you planned!
Yay! Good luck with the statistics and the delay improvement... I had one of 6 months and found that bad enough already.
Yay! Good for you for being so persistent and patient. Now you can start 2009 without worrying about when it will get read!
wooohooo!
Thanks for the support, bloggy friends. Yes, it really was 9 months since the first draft, although I gave updated drafts as I incorporated the comments from others.
I'm glad I didn't submit it without her feedback, because the paper is going to be a lot better after I make the changes she suggested.
Whoooo!! congrats! what a weight off your shoulders!!
Congrats on getting feedback. Does RA want to read it again before you submit?
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