I am nearly done with my first draft of my literature review, and I could not be happier. The literature reviews of high school and college history papers cannot be compared to a literature review for an undergraduate thesis. I will not be surprised if my literature review is the longest section of my entire…
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Aug
31
Literature Review
Aug
31
An August Update
Hello, again! Since I last posted in July, I have only been able to do about one and a half weeks worth of research, since summer research ended on August 5th and then hurricane Irene stalled my research efforts the first week of school. Despit
Aug
31
Back to School
Hello everyone, Sorry for the lack of posts recently. I have been very busy studying for the GRE and then taking it right before school started (I was actually taking it during the earthquake!). I have also been working on applications for math graduate school and have a list of 13 schools that I may…
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Aug
31
Box-and-whisker plots will always be in style.
I’ve written a good deal about my fieldwork and methods for collecting data, so now I want to return to the main question that is guiding my research, and then relate some of my recent fieldwork to that research question. In the simplest terms, I want to know “Is weathering an important process acting in…
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Aug
31
On August Heat, Natural Disasters, and Rough Drafts
Between the hurricanes, swamp fires, and earthquakes, our first week of classes has yielded to ‘first week-take two.’ It has been a climatic start to the end of a hot summer whose last month I spent in Williamsburg.