COP3 // Resolving your Research Project

Try and think of a plan to get through and maximise your efforts in the next and final 5 weeks. 

Getting Stuck

• Ask yourself why are you really stuck
• Avoid negativity
• Picture what being 'unstuck' would look like

Take charge of your research project!

Process

This is how I feel about being stuck > This is what I'm really stuck with > Being 'unstuck' would look like this > What actions could be taken to get there? > In what timescale > Do the action!

Plan and break down the next 5 weeks and force yourself to stick to it.

Losing Focus

• Don't lose sight of your central goal/ overall question
• Prioritse - don't obsess over how things look or read
• Keep in the back of your mind your topic / question 
• What is the central aim/ purpose?

Everything you do must be justifiable in furthering your research project

Prioritse, at this stage it is about making the points, not necessarily what it looks like.

Project Self Assessment

• Write down the major aims of the project
• Give a brief summary of the work so far
• Comment on your time management
• Do you know what the project as a whole will look like?
• What steps will you take to ensure it gets there?
• What areas of the project are you worried about?
• What 'risk management' plans do you have? - have a plan B

 Losing motivation

• set yourself a goals, some sort of a target to head towards rather than feeling forced to do it because of LCA.  

Running out of time

•  be more disciplined than ever
• don't prioritse the practical over the written

 Some other general advice

• look again at your question or theme, have you done what you set out to do or do you need to change your title?  a slight change in direction
• make sure everything in your project relates to your title/question or theme (if you have wandered off on a tangent you may be penalised)

 Justify everything you say with evidence, discussion or examples
Support all of your assertions with references and evidence

support your text with lots of sources

introduce each chapter with a brief statement telling the reader what you are setting out to do and how the chapter fits in with the question

conclude each chapter by stating what you have achieved and how it links with the next part