Not panicking, not panicking, not panicking

Phew. I feel as though I am never away from the computer!

I’ve manged to write up about 4000 words so far so I’m feeling a lot happier and the 10,000 isn’t looking as daunting now.  The only way I could stop panicking and ensure some decent sleep was to make a planner. I broke everything down into manageable chunks and popped them all into my day to day planner, crossing them out as I do them. Got to love Excel.

I’ve written up the Introduction (2044 words), and the Method and Results sections for the first study. I’m half way through prepping my voice files for the second study and I’m hoping to get E-Prime all set up by the end of Monday. Then, my planner tells me, I should be able to start collaring some males into being my participants. Once I have run one or two experiments I’ll be able to start writing up the second half of the Method section as I do the rest. E-Prime will collate and sort my data, then all I need to do is shove it through SPSS, write up the Results and then start thinking about the Discussion, which will need to be 2-3000 words I reckon.

I also have a 2000 word essay to write on offender profiling so I’ve started to research for that and should have a decent essay plan by Sunday evening…she says. If I manage to get it done I will be a good few days ahead of my planner.

28th April is looming closer and closer…