Dear L, C and K,  Your theses with my handwritten comments are being mailed from New Zealand tomorrow.  Please go through them as I wrote notes within the papers, as well as at the end. Please share them with your advisor and Lindsey.  Please write if you have any questions and keep me up on your work ahead.

You were and are a terrific crew and I so much enjoyed your company and thinking.

The grades ought to be available next week.    By the way, your theses will be with Nicole.

From New Zealand, happy new year!        SLI

We agreed today that on Nov. 12  we will have updated outlines, the five pillars of our thesis, and its spine–the main line of argument and analysis. On November 19, we will have  5-7 pages writing as it would appear on one or two pillars or  in a chapter or section of our thesis.  On November 26, Lindsey will do the abstract and you will have drafts ready for her on that day.  We will ask her for particulars on what she wants done by then and for the deadline.

For December 3, 10 and 17, we will concentrate on individual sessions with me–short ones.  We will email each other be each date the full draft form we have by each date for a 45 minute peer editing session, or if need be, done via email.  We will gather as a group only when it is useful for all, and then briefly.

The thesis is due Friday, December 20.  Please bring your thesis advisor up on this schedule.

See you at Sleep No More.  Thanks, SLI

1. Sleep No More–Thursday, Nov. 7 at 7.30   The McKittrick Hotel, 530 West 27th Street. Let’s rendezvous at no later than 7.20, outside.  My cell is 646 2473564, if you are to be late.

2.  Class on 5th–(a) update on your meetings with your advisers; (b) a 2-3 page outline of your thesis–big architectural issues highlighted; (c) update on your bibliographic work and (d) an exemplary passage or a work you’ll be using you want to talk about and, (e) if you wish, a go at a two or three page introduction or any part of your thesis as a writing effort to be shared (do if useful and you are ready; if not, stick to other things (a)-(d).

Thanks, SLI

Please read the pages on Warrants in Craft of Research for next week as Lindsey will lead the class on warrants. Later in the session, I want to take up your latest bibliography, check in on your reading and see how your outlining is going, as well as check to see that all of you are in close touch now with your advisers.    Thanks, SLI

No class today as this Tuesday has been deemed another day of the week.  Work hard!  See you next week.  SLI

Sleep No More–We have tickets for Thursday, November 7.!!!!

Mary Pearl will  join us at 4 today to hear where you are on advisers and what difficulties you may have encountered in gaining one so far, looking to how best to help.  We’ll have the first hour to ourselves and we can sharpen just where we are on topics.  Thanks.   SLI