Iris

First of all, as the chairperson of the meeting today, I'd like to thank the seven super writers - Jun Jin, Lucia, Issa, Emily, Wen-yu, Mei-lan, and Alam- for their attendance and active participation in the meeting. I am also very happy to find that we had a new member today. You are very welcome - Emily :)

In the meeting, each of us reported what we had written in the past week and whether we had achieved our goals that we set last time. Although most of us except Wen-Yu found that we didn't complete exactly what we had planned to write, the positive side is that we all kept on writing something :) For myself, I wish that I would really carry out the plan and achieve the goal as Wen-Yu did :P

Many people talked about the importance and difficulty of keeping balance between reading and writing. We find that if we don't read enough, we don't have much food for thinking and writing; but if we start writing only after we read much (there may be no such things of reading enough) , we may have forgot most of what we have read. Someone suggests that it is critical to find the right point to start to write. But what is the right point? Can any one give some opinions or comments on this?

All right, it's time for me to set the writing goal for the coming week.
1. Write short summaries of a few articles that I've read;
2. Draft the "summary of research proposal" for the application form for the ethical approval.