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Luckily, we have
monthly meetings,

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and we have to provide an
agenda for our supervisors

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for our monthly meetings.

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And that has been invaluable as
far as looking back and seeing,

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now, what was I
supposed to be doing?

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Where have I fallen short
in my research plan?

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So on and so forth.

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So the monthly meeting agendas
actually are quite valuable.

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Additionally, because my
research is technology-based,

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I have very long file names,
very long document names

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so that I know exactly what's
in what folder and what I need

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and when.

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I also backup my data to the
university server quite often,

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and then I also do
off-site backups.

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And that's all
part of preserving

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the data and the research.

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It's been very important
to keep a record of what

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I've done largely because
of the methodology section.

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When you start out an a PhD,
and you don't think about that

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someday down the
road, you're going

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to be writing about
what you're doing

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at that time at
the very beginning.

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And I had to create
a 9.7 million

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word corpus the first three
to four months of my research.

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Three years later, I'm
writing about the creation

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of that corpus, so it was
very important to be organised

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and have things documented
so that that methodology

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section was easy to write.

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There has been a
number of occasions

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where I wish I would have kept
a better record of my work.

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Part of that is these annual
progress reports and supervisor

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meetings.

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But as far as the
research itself,

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it goes back to the writing
and methodology section.

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And I wish that even though
I did keep a good record,

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I wish I would've kept a better
record of what I was doing

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so that the methodology
section would have been easier

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to write.