These types of a books are a little difficult at times because they are very specific about following a specific plan.  While the guidelines provided are very helpful, in the end everyone has their own style and time requirements they adhere to.

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Going through the review process (both of the receiving end and evaluating end) is by far the best preparation for writing your own work...

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The one year timeline is pretty typical across other disciplines from what I have seen as well....It's definately not a problem limited to IS

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Charles, based on oyur comment of reading seemily easier at the end, I had to say, it was nice considering we were reading so much for our research paper. thanks for another semester of epic 'green juice' stories my friend!!

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Hey Chris, yea i liked thie personal proposal part too. It seems this project becomes so massive its a mandatory organizer to keep yourself in check.

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I agree, and it might also be discouraging too, but we must publish or die.

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The one year review cycle: is this bad or is this typical across disciplines?  I wonder how IS compares to other disciplines in this regard.

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I think I agree with you.  I find this book to be helpful more as a collection of tools and requirements than as a schedule for writing something.  The first book we read -- The Craft of Research -- seems far more realistic in how it depicts research: as a process of false starts, unexpected directions, rewrites, and reconsiderings.

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The writer's mental block reminded me of one quotation "Japanese carp swims slowly because going no where takes time".  I believed having known the objective of the mission is very important and it will help ease the mental block because if you know where you are going, you can start some where, otherwise, it will take longer to get rid of that mental block.

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Freshman year in college I lost my final CS1 project three days before it was due.  This was back when data fit on floppies; my primary disk suffered environmental exposure damage (I lived in the rowdy wing of my dorm), and my backup coincidentally had been borrowed temporarily and overwritten to make a system boot disk for a broken Mac.  I had done about 90% of the project; my only hard copy was about a week old and consisted of about 70% of the project, but about 15% of that iteration had to be ripped out (again) and recoded, and the whole thing needed to be retyped.

We live, we learn.  At least it was just a freshman year project. 

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