So that’s how I arrived at my now dissertation project which is “Constructing institutional identities: How veterans talk about their transition to college.” Since I couldn’t go to bootcamp or basic training (I’m immunocompromised and getting permission would likely take months), I decided to see if I can explore how military indoctrination lingers after a service member leaves the military. Montage forward to August and I revisit the idea of military socialization. My thoughts were on contributing to social change in some way. Then the Summer of 2020, it was exceptionally difficult to work because I shared the collective outrage about the murders of George Floyd, Breonna Tayler, Ahmaud Arbery, and countless other Black Americans. My original plans for conducting my dissertation research disappeared because of the nationwide shutdowns. So during Spring 2020, if you’ve already forgotten – the United States (and really the world) was coping with the collective shock of COVID-19. This was the final requirement I needed before being able to prepare for my dissertation. In my sixth semester (spring of my 3rd year), I submitted my second qualifying paper. I submitted my master’s thesis as my first qualifying paper. These papers should represent your overall research and work quality. In addition to the credit hours, I had to do two qualifying papers. I had to do two more semesters of coursework to meet the 54 credit hour requirement. So after getting accepted, my credits from my master’s degree transferred over to my PhD requirements. There is a dearth of research on doing language in the military and in my experience there are only a handful of veterans doing it. My reasons for doing so is I thought there was much more I wanted to do. So I reapplied to the program as a PhD student. In my second year, I decided I wanted to stay in school and pursue a PhD in sociolinguistics in the same department at Georgetown. The requirements for my master’s degree was 36 credit hours and a master’s thesis. In 2017 I entered my linguistics program as a master’s student at Georgetown University. population has a PhD, I’ll explain what the process looked like. To add some context because only 4.5% of the U.S. Last semester I defended by dissertation prospectus which is a major milestone in finishing my PhD. If you’re unfamiliar with MAXQDA I created this working document to teach my research assistants how to use the program. I then imported the transcript with all the codes into my current project file. To resolve this issue, I opened up the older back up and exported the transcript with the coded segments as if I were a team member working separately. Because I had to go back nearly 3 weeks to find the project with the transcript coded means I didn’t notice it for some time. So you’re probably wondering why I would title this post “Create (your own back up).” I still think it’s important but what I should have done was checked my document system that all my transcripts had codes in them before creating my own back up. I also opened the back up I created yesterday but the transcript wasn’t coded. I then went back ~3 weeks to a (automatic back up) and found the coded transcript. This morning (however) as I’m coding a transcript, I notice one of my participant’s files has zero coded segments. The program also automatically saves your project because it’s a database program. You can set this up for everyday or every 12 days. So in MAXQDA, the project itself creates back up files automatically. To help conceptualize this process, I recommend checking out Johnny Saldaña’s book The Coding Manual for Qualitative Researchers. It’s been really helpful for organizing my data into “categories” and then coding it for specific themes. To facilitate my analysis, I am using MAXQDA. (It’s going ok, not as fast as I’d like it to). I then transcribed each interview during the same semester to start my analysis mid-January. My dissertation project has seven participants who I interviewed three times over the course of their first semester.
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