Reading list

04.16.2003

I've been looking for substantive guidebooks on how to carry out the content analysis part of my dissertation. After all, I'm leaving in September. I've got the theory behind it, but nothing on how to practically pursue it. The best ones are checked out from Waldo Library. And I've never actually taken an in-depth course on content analysis - as opposed to, say, ordinary least squares (OLS) regressions.

So, I decided to look online for some sources and just plain order some books from Amazon. I chose two: The Content Analysis Guidebook by Kimberly Neuendorf and Methods of Text and Discourse Analysis by Ruth Wodak. Yes, I am excited and looking forward to reading them over the next few weeks. And owning the books means I'll be able to take them w/ me as reference guides during my nine months "in the field."

In the meantime, I plan to finish Milan Kundera's Immortality (which is really good, btw). Also polish up some of lit review sections of my dissertation draft(s). I hope to wrap up my democratic theory section by the time I get on that big airplane headed south.

The weather's back to crap. After hitting 82 degrees yesterday, it was a very windy 55 degrees today. Ah, Michigan!

Last night felt like summer. Danielle and I took a stroll downtown, ending up at Food Dance (the Shiraz and Risotto was amazing). A splendid evening. We decided we're just friends (to be fair, she did most of the deciding). Just as well. Still, I really like spending time w/ Danielle. She perfectly blends intelligence and hipness, a professional w/ indie rock roots.

Posted by Miguel at 04:11 PM

Comments

she's the last hot ticket in kzoo.
we used to live together.
I've only read the book of laughter and forgetting. loved it

Posted by: bil at April 18, 2003 08:51 AM