There are but a few weeks until all work is
completed, submitted and my MAPP journey is done. As I work through the end of the first 2
submissions, I have had to get practical and think about how I am going to hand
everything in which has led to me searching Amazon to find what I need in the
way of stationery. It sounds crazy I
know but it is a practical consideration and I have needed to stock up on ink
(which seems to dissolve), paper, folders, and whatever else I need to hand my
work in in a way which is clear to any reader.
I hope that anyone who reads my work has a clear journey through it so
making sure all references to appendices and other documents should thorough
and easy to navigate and I will check and re-check before submission.
I have found that there has been much actual
writing involved, from transcribing interviews, which amounted to some 50,000
words to what I then did with them, hand notating, processing, analysing,
extracting, grouping and summarising and compiling my review and artefact –
which I always knew would be the case, for you cannot share research without
going through any of the above processes, but I think the actual physical appearance
of the submission will be more substantial than I first imagined. I can only hope that I am able to get
everything in my head across. Really
frustrated by the fact that last night as I was trying to get to sleep a great
phrase formed for my review and I cannot for the life of me remember what it
was…. I will let it go and ask it to come back to me when needed, or hope that
the essence of it is in my mind somewhere!
There is an outline of a presentation waiting
in the wings, which has changed greatly already and I am looking forward to
getting it together once the other work is in, and again can only hope that I
can get across everything that I want to say as so much has presented itself,
sometimes in slow burn thinking processes and sometimes as a waterfall of
ideas, thoughts and learning. I have new
areas to question for sure, some radical, but all, in my opinion, logical as an
outcome of my recent research and related experiences. So: much learned that I am hoping to present
captured in time for submission and also as seeds planted which will shape my
future. I cannot be anything other than
different having been on this journey – and different in this case is good.