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In-Page Footnotes

1. Determine which Notes that I have written are relevant to this Chapter.
2. Fill out any Note-place-holders with whatever's in my head!
3. Use the reading lists associated with these Notes to establish a limited reading list for the Chapter.
4. Review whatever I've written, in whatever format, on the items in the derived reading lists, and make necessary cosmetic changes in the process of evaluating the items.
5. Segregate this reading list into:-
   … Higher versus lower priority,
   … Read versus unread,
   … Annotated (by hand) versus unannotated
   … Those with an Abstract or Note Write-up versus those without
6. Cull items that are unlikely to be addressed in the next two years and list them as specifically excluded. I may pick up on these at a later stage of the project, but in the short term the culling process will be essential for making across-the-board progress.
7. Determine why the residue are important and relevant - if they are - and briefly document the reasons.
8. Migrate any Book or Paper Abstracts that I have written (as distinct from copied from elsewhere) to Write-Up Notes.
9. If the Book or Paper is important enough, migrate any hand-written annotations to a Write-Up Note, and complete any important incomplete Write-Up Notes.
10. Write and maintain a Chapter Summary, motivating and summarising the Chapter. Use this to ensure I don't get side-tracked.
11. Incorporate the key points of Write-Up Notes into the Topic Notes.
12. Incorporate the highest level thoughts from the Topic Notes into the Main Text of the Chapter.

• This is the Chapter on which I was working when I started my PhD, and the papers are those I was assigned. They have extensive Write-ups and supervision notes.
• However, I need to undertake a more thorough review of the literature.

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