For my friends that doing Thesis

Found this Journal in term of poem, really surprising!

so I decide to share :)

This poem is a reflection of the processes and associated emotions early career academic researchers may experience in preparing, presenting and publishing their research. (Bowrey, 2008)

The New Researcher by Graham Bowrey

Part 1 – The start

What to write,

When to write

No topic or time

Seems quite right

Ask the experienced

Those who have published

They must know how

For they are the Researched

Select a topic

Something specific

Think of a question

One which will stick

It is chosen

The selection is frozen

This will break new ground!

Ideas stream by the dozen

The Researched were floored –

“The audience will be bored!

It has been done to death

This will not strike a chord”

Back to the beginning

The topics are thinning

A new selection is made

Will the Researched be willing?

With trepidation

And heavy anticipation

The Researched review –

This topic will be the exception

Part 2 – The writing

Put pen to paper

Do it now, not later

Much angst is created

The waste would fill a crater!

First draft done

Time for some sun

The Researched edit

Waiting is not fun

Comments are back

Good news, it’s on track

Methodology needs work

But not much more than that

Second draft complete

The package looks neat

The Researched are confident

The paper will compete

Part 3 – The submission

Click and send

Via some Ethernet bend

The paper has gone

Now for relationships to mend

Waiting again

Nerves begin

Why so anxious?

Failure is not a sin

Two months later

Time does not matter

With bated breath

The response is

What!!

Is he a complete twat?

Needs more rigour?!

Is he sane or not?

The Researched console

It’s nothing personal

It’s not rejected

Just needs more soul

Stew and sulk for a while

Add it to the growing pile

Give it two weeks they say

Try not to spit more bile

Two weeks later

Feel much better

Maybe he did make sense.

Work on improving rigour

The Researched review

Changes give a better view

Resubmit

The paper looks new

Patience is again tested

Response received

What does it say?

Accepted!!

Part 4 – The presentation

Arrive at hotel

I’m only new but no-one can tell

Dressed in this suit

I look like I am here to sell

Attend opening address

I feel like a mess

I’m scheduled to present

In two hours, no less

Nerves kick in

Would a drink be a sin?

I’ll mumble anyway

No, be a man, take it on the chin

Five minutes to go

Time is moving so slow –

Sweating profusely

If I stumble will anyone know?

No stumbling or stammering

No blank pause or mumbling

It went quite smoothly

Even the Chair was charming

Back in the audience

What an experience!

I feel quite elated

Happy with clear conscience

Conference dinner tonight

Wine to drink and nibbles to bite

Everyone looks so relaxed

I’ll behave, I just might

Closing address given

Toasts begin with drinks risen

Food is a delight

Company is from heaven

This has been exciting

Thinking and writing

I’ll do it again

But this time with less whining

adapted from Bowrey, G. 2008, "The New Researcher," Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal, 21(8), 1212-1215.