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Jul. 21st, 2015 11:06 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bedlamsbardOkay, I don’t think the Roman slavery thing is working out as a thesis topic, because I am getting more and more frustrated going through books trying to narrow that broad field down to an actual thesis topic. If at any point I’m screaming I DON’T CARE! at my books while doing preliminary research (which I have done multiple times now), I should definitely not be writing a master’s thesis on that; I wrote one already, and I know I never hit that point with my first MA diss. (Occasionally I was screaming YOU ARE INCREDIBLY WRONG AND YOU SHOULD FEEL BAD BECAUSE OF HOW WRONG YOU ARE! but that’s very different.)
Okay. Okay. New plan. Regroup, go back to the subfield I’m more comfortable with and that’s better suited for my research tactics and academic background anyway: Roman military, imperialism, colonialism, subject populations, but in some way that doesn’t retread my Leicester MA dissertation or the several papers I’ve written this year on Roman imperialism. That shouldn’t be difficult; people have made their entire careers on the latter topic and I didn’t have time to cover large swathes of the subfield on my diss. I was also the only person writing about the subject in English at the time, though that may have since changed. That means back to the library at some point; I'm hoping to at least have a proposal and a preliminary bibliography by the time the school year starts in August. I know there was a thing I wanted to cover in my diss that I never had a chance to even do any research on that might work well for a thesis topic, and it's something that I know very little about but at least have some general background on, and it's enough in the range of my diss that I have that background too, but it's not something that I actually covered there.
UGH. ACADEMIA.
(I don’t have to write an MA thesis for my department, but I would prefer to if possible.)
Okay. Okay. New plan. Regroup, go back to the subfield I’m more comfortable with and that’s better suited for my research tactics and academic background anyway: Roman military, imperialism, colonialism, subject populations, but in some way that doesn’t retread my Leicester MA dissertation or the several papers I’ve written this year on Roman imperialism. That shouldn’t be difficult; people have made their entire careers on the latter topic and I didn’t have time to cover large swathes of the subfield on my diss. I was also the only person writing about the subject in English at the time, though that may have since changed. That means back to the library at some point; I'm hoping to at least have a proposal and a preliminary bibliography by the time the school year starts in August. I know there was a thing I wanted to cover in my diss that I never had a chance to even do any research on that might work well for a thesis topic, and it's something that I know very little about but at least have some general background on, and it's enough in the range of my diss that I have that background too, but it's not something that I actually covered there.
UGH. ACADEMIA.
(I don’t have to write an MA thesis for my department, but I would prefer to if possible.)
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Date: 2015-07-22 08:06 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2015-07-22 08:46 pm (UTC)