{"id":93,"date":"2020-12-08T17:19:39","date_gmt":"2020-12-08T17:19:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/ecr-writing-club\/?p=93"},"modified":"2020-12-08T18:01:24","modified_gmt":"2020-12-08T18:01:24","slug":"post-bootcamp-results","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/ecr-writing-club\/2020\/12\/08\/post-bootcamp-results\/","title":{"rendered":"Post-Bootcamp Results"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>During the 1-day Thesis Bootcamp we completed <strong>12 Pomodoros &#8212; or 5 hours of focused writing. <\/strong>Quite an accomplishment. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As the facilitator, I was &#8216;in the trenches&#8217; with the other Bootcampers. My writing project involved progressing a paper for a special issue that I&#8217;d been mentally planning for <em>many <\/em>months (egads, it&#8217;s  nearly a year!). I &#8216;arrived&#8217; at the Virtual session armed with: notes about the method and the results of our analysis from my co-author, the target word count, and a blank page. By the end of the session I&#8217;d drafted half of the paper. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We had 9 PhD students enrolled and two academic staff (1 facilitating, 1 PGR Director seeing what it was about). We had 2 last-minute withdrawals and 3 who left before the session finished.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Feedback was very positive (4.75\/5 stars)! <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><em>This Writing Bootcamp was very successful. I was able to work on my analytical discussion for my second chapter, and successfully completely 1200 words.&nbsp;<\/em><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><em>I wanted to thank you again for organising the bootcamp. It was highly beneficial and your calm approach was really appreciated.&nbsp;I would be very interested to attend another bootcamp.&nbsp;<\/em><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><em>I find that Pomodoro technique was very useful. I will definitely try to incorporate this going forward. I also enjoyed writing together and plan to do this more often with friends.<\/em><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><em>The commitment! I didn&#8217;t necessarily follow the breaks religiously, sometimes I carried on working during a break, and sometimes I extended the break by few minutes. Ultimately it depends on what I am doing, and I don&#8217;t want to break the work at the wrong point. But the monitoring, the writing together and commitment all made it work.<\/em><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><em>Pomodoro &#8211; to have regular breaks mentally and physically to get up and move. The controlling purpose &#8211; to bring focus and clarity to what I am working on\/thought process.<\/em>&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/li><\/ul>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"884\" height=\"914\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/ecr-writing-club\/files\/2020\/12\/Thesis-bootcamp-post-questionnaire.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-100\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/ecr-writing-club\/files\/2020\/12\/Thesis-bootcamp-post-questionnaire.png 884w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/ecr-writing-club\/files\/2020\/12\/Thesis-bootcamp-post-questionnaire-290x300.png 290w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/ecr-writing-club\/files\/2020\/12\/Thesis-bootcamp-post-questionnaire-768x794.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 884px) 100vw, 884px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Suggested improvements, were to keep with the longer lunch (45-minutes as planned instead of shortening it to 30) and to ensure the Zoom host (me) was vigilant about muting attendees who left their mics on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During the 1-day Thesis Bootcamp we completed 12 Pomodoros &#8212; or 5 hours of focused writing. 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