I have a folder for each week, labelled, “week 1″, “week 2″, and so on. Inside each folder I have one document per reading, titled with the title of the reading. I used to have a more formal naming convention — author last name, first few words of title — but it was unecessary.

The 7 hours reading is just what I estimated for this one course. It varies, but has so far proven roughly accurate. On good weeks I’m doing most reading on Friday and Mondays, with a swing day of either Wed morning or Thursday, depending on what’s going on with the other things in my schedule.

(Thanks, by the way, for the note of confidence on the jargon…gives me hope!)

Any chance of more info here?

Do you label each file with a date ? Is that what you mean?

And the 7 hours reading – is that for just a one course load? Or is that on top of other readings – other courses??

good luck!

(I was a Cultural Studies major and went on to postgrad for a couple of years – am currently doing a Dip Ed – the terms and wording of this stuff is certainly dense but once you ‘get it’ it becomes alot easier – no different from the jargon in most disciplines)

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Thanks! I’ll need it. Though I find, interestingly, that these readings have a tendency to inspire creativity later when I’m working on math proofs. I guess these writers have a way of seeing things from all sorts of unexpected directions.

Remember: Given enough time and enough adjectives to hyphenate, you can make an argument for anything. Anything! That’s how these authors put food on their tables.

Good luck!