Sigh why are my hands so itchy?
Yesterday before 4 pm I sent my systematic review protocol to Turnitin.com even before my supervisor approved of this latest draft.
So I sent it to Turnitin and got the originality report back almost immediately.
Thought I was lucky cus I heard about how Turnitin sometimes take a few hours.
So I itchy-handedly went to edit some parts of this draft and resubmitted it to Turnitin.
Super kaypo. Shouldn't have done that. Cus it is true that the second submission will take about 24 hours or longer to process the second one.
UGH.
And I didn't save the first originality report before it was overwritten by the second currently processing one. :(
So now I'll just have to wait.. and hopefully make it for the Deadline today at 6pm.
Next time I will not act hardworking and kaypo go and edit here edit there.
I will just be my usual nua-self and hand in whatever whenever it is ready.
The protocol has been a bitch to do seriously.
Especially the search strategy part.
For each of the databases which we're going to search we have to list exactly the words and how we're going to search.
Let me show you..
Example1
(“Experience” OR (“Life Experience” OR MM “ Life Experience” OR MH “ Life Experience+”) OR (“Perception” OR MM “Perception” OR MH “Perception+”) OR “Meaning” OR “Meaningfulness”) AND
((“Child” OR MM “Child” OR “MH “Child+”) OR “Pediatric” OR (MM “Pediatric Surgery” OR MH “Pediatric Surgery”) OR (MH “Child, hospitalized” OR MM “Child, hospitalized”)) AND
((“Pain” OR MM “Pain+” OR MH “Pain+”) OR (MM “Postoperative Pain” OR MH “Postoperative Pain” OR “Postoperative Pain”) OR “postsurg* pain” OR “Surg* pain”)
This is still not perfect yet lor.
The aim is to capture ALL the articles relevant to my topic.. and different databases have different codes and styles of searching.
Super time consuming.
That time me and alicia were trying to do this thing, and her list was like soooooooooooooooooo loooooooonnnnnngggggg because she is naturally long-winded and she included a lot of 'OR's to make sure that she put in all relevant words.
So we thought that since her list is so long it should be all-encompassing and it might retrieve too many journal articles from the database which might include irrelevant ones as well.
So we typed in her list and tried the database.
It came out as "Your initial search yield no results".
(-_-") so frustrating.
Must do all over again.
I'm going back to waiting for Turnitin now. boo
♥Bid Farewell
