A Thesis is SO yesterday

Honours is definitely a changing, scary beast that needs to be tamed- thanks to Ryan for that analogy, inspired from a ‘Cheshire Cat’. As you may well have guess from the blindingly obvious title of this blog, I am not longer writing a thesis. A significant change at this stage of the year- but not late enough to mess me about too much.

After a chat in class about research methodology, and my increased confusion and frustration about not being able to neatly wrap up a methodology and apply it to my research, Adrian and I stumbled across this idea that perhaps a thesis isn’t actually right for me and where I want to be next year. The words ‘industry report’ were thrown in to the arena. I took a moment to consider this, and continued to argue my case for a thesis. In the end though, I have seen sense and henceforth will be writing an industry report on the same topic.

This means however, that I do get to write an exegesis, instead of a thesis, that is an unlimited piece of work. So really, if I were crazy enough, I COULD end up writing a bigger exegesis than I would a thesis. But WOWZER, that’s quite huge. In that moment of realisation that I was now in fact writing an industry report, somehow I felt a huge weight off my shoulders. Not sure why, I think perhaps because it has more of a structure than a thesis, or because I’ve written reports before and am comfortable with the vernacular. Either way I’m feeling like my thoughts are synthesizing a lot more rapidly than they were a few weeks ago.

So that’s a major update, and I’ve even figured out a research methodology to use- industry research. Ahhh, it’s like someone has Windexed my window and I can actually see it out of it now!