Original Revision Plan (taken from a missed class journal entry):
First, I’d like to discuss my meeting with Dr. Tuttle. I met with Dr. Tuttle to discuss my ADE project as the subject for my capstone. We both remarked that this was a good idea, because my ADE project was done under unique circumstances: I was concussed after being assaulted by a patient I worked with. Overall, my project didn’t really reach my standards of completion, so I am excited to return to it with a new and better lens. Specifically, we discussed that I would use a similar format to approach the same topic but from a different perspective. I’ll still be writing about the Bell Jar, but this time I’ll be focusing on the providers and their characterization in reference to Esther’s well-being. I’ll be making 7, instead of 6, journal entries, changing my reflection to focus on my experience of working in a psychiatric healthcare facility, and repurposing my art.
Progress notes:
Update 1: I have completed my introduction, but I plan to leave my conclusion and reflection until the end. Right now I am focusing on finding resources to help support my thesis, and making sure to focus on literary critiques.
Update 2: I have completed my quotations/ annotations, but I’m not feeling very confident in them, so I’ve decided to restart my project. I feel as though I am repeating some of the mistakes I made in my original document and I am too visceral in my annotations of the quotations.
Update 3: This is an update after my second meeting with Dr. Tuttle. My writer’s memo talks a bit about my process and plan, but mostly I’m just going to continue approaching this assignment with a little more freedom than I originally expected to. The biggest change is my inclusion of a forward, which provides literary and societal contexts for the reader to consider while reading the analyses of the quotes. Now, I’m making just four annotations on quotations, and I plan for them to each be approximately 500-600 words. The fours annotations work to identified mirrored juxtapositions of the the two providers in the text in order to support my claim. I’m going to be focusing on critical contexts, and literary comparisons to support my thesis. I think this plan could lend itself to a longer project but ultimately one I am more satisfied with. My plans for the artwork remain the same, and I think my plans for the reflection remain the same. I am considering taking time in the conclusion or introduction to discuss the true limits of the roman a clef, and whether or not we can extrapolate Esther’s patient provider experience onto Plath’s.
Final Note: I have mostly upheld my plans for my project leading up to the due date. I have included a forward that has developed into an overarching theme that will then segue into my conclusion. I think I have to do some serious revision to my introduction before I turn it in on the 3rd.
