Learning new things are not easy and challenging at times. Indeed. For CMap, I find that I need to learn about certain features and functions embed within CMap. After watching several videos relating to CMap, I realise that trial and error might be helpful in making me understand CMap better. Even though I follow the steps (while watching a video relating to CMap), and yet I notice that the steps are for basic things.
If I want to make the mapping fancier than the first version, I need to explore certain things on my own. That’s what I have been doing since yesterday after I had a supervision session with one of my PG students. While double checking her chapter 4, we find certain things that needed to be corrected (I force her to double check together with me – tongue in cheek). After finalizing the framework that I created using CMap, I asked her if she wants to publish her work in a journal. Well, I never force my students to publish in any journal but I always give them options. It is their right to choose.
Upon hearing the idea of publishing her work in a journal, she waved her hand frantically indicating that she does not want to do so. But I gave her another option saying that I would revise her writing and redo the analysis if needed to make it publishable. Then, she laughed and said “If you are going to do that, I am ok. I think doing a Masters is enough for me and I do not aim to publish my work any where“. Sigh…. I need to encourage her more on this.