IPT 682 Notes: 10-01-09

Brief notes on drafting an intro to a proposal or dissertation from David Wiley’s IPT 692 course.

Monty Python’s Argument sketch

REview of N’s intro document http://njc682.wordpress.com/2009/09/30/new-intro-yet-again/

Brainstorming on development project. Reference to yesterday’s dSchool seminar, where we looked at the need, came up with crazy ideas, regardless of possibility.

Stick to the format. Limitations are good.

Do blogs condition us to say anything, anytime. “Precision is an increasingly lost art. The onus is on you (the author) to do the work, not the reader.”

Best advice on PhD
Control the scope: go away, narrow the scope until its so small until you don’t believe anyone will believe it is significant to the field, then we will cut it in half.

Designing a free, certificate program for Japanese youth.

Listening to Moses and others talk about their projects that are primarily for welfare of others tilts me like a windmill.

“Yeah, right.” One dissertation is going to solve this problem?

Proposals for project

Write an introduction

Assignment: do the most productive thing for you (maybe a 1p funnel, maybe not)

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