{"id":12854,"date":"2018-03-05T17:00:33","date_gmt":"2018-03-05T17:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/humansciences\/?p=12854"},"modified":"2023-10-12T20:14:25","modified_gmt":"2023-10-12T20:14:25","slug":"so-youre-writing-a-dissertation-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/humansciences\/2018\/03\/05\/so-youre-writing-a-dissertation-part-2\/","title":{"rendered":"So you&#8217;re writing a dissertation, Part 2"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\t\t\t\t<div class='panopto-iframe'>\n\t\t\t\t\t<iframe \n\t\t\t\t\t\tsrc='https:\/\/temple.hosted.panopto.com\/Panopto\/pages\/embed.aspx?id=64a91b9f-e851-48be-a7c4-aeae017339d5&amp;start=0'\n\t\t\t\t\t\twidth='720'\n\t\t\t            height='405'\n\t\t\t            frameborder='0'\n\t\t\t            allowfullscreen='true'\n\t\t\t            allow='autoplay'\n\t\t\t\t\t><\/iframe>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\n\n<p>So, the Religion Graduate Student (RGS) has had about seven months to dig into the archival materials of the Nationwide Women\u2019s Program at the American Friends Service Committee. In addition to reading through the corpus of newsletters from the Nationwide Women\u2019s Program, RGS spent much of the summer studying the secondary literature including a number of scholarly works that she plans to model in her writing.<\/p>\n<p>Conscious of her physical and psychological health, RGS\u2019s weekly routine includes running, biking, yoga, and meditation. Despite this level of physical activity, some anxiety creeped in and butterflies fluttered as she looked up at the road in front of her. As she began writing she had to \u201cconjure up all the powers of the universe\u201d just to punch out a few words on the keyboard.<\/p>\n<p>One thing RGS thinks a lot about is identifying a unifying strand that runs through her story. A good story is not sufficient for a dissertation. On top of the story she has to tease out its meaning within the larger context of religious and women&#8217;s studies. That&#8217;s the challenge she faces and there is no clear road map. She has got to draw her own.<\/p>\n<p>My first interview with RGS was on February 19, 2010. This second interview took place on September 10, 2010. Listen to what RGS has to say on her progress so far.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">(Listen to previous interview: <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/humansciences\/2018\/01\/11\/so-youre-writing-a-dissertation-part-1\/\">Part 1<\/a>)\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/library.temple.edu\/about\/staff\/fred-rowland\">&#8212;Fred Rowland<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, the Religion Graduate Student (RGS) has had about seven months to dig into the archival materials of the Nationwide Women\u2019s Program at the American Friends Service Committee. In addition to reading through the corpus of newsletters from the Nationwide &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/humansciences\/2018\/03\/05\/so-youre-writing-a-dissertation-part-2\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":805,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[108,3,5,81],"tags":[109,188,177,23],"class_list":["post-12854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-audio","category-human-sciences","category-religion","category-rowland","tag-interview","tag-religion","tag-talking-about-books","tag-top-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/humansciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12854","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/humansciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/humansciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/humansciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/805"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/humansciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12854"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/humansciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12854\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13578,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/humansciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12854\/revisions\/13578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/humansciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/humansciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/humansciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}