Nov. 10
To do: Communicate with my supervisors about my experimental plan.
Reflection: After the discussion, I am sure that I am going to keep doing the meta-analysis. Besides, I have deepened my understanding of meta-analysis from my supervisor’s paper. I was required to read a paper and some of its references to find whether they are helpful for my research subject.
Plan: Read papers and think about the research subject.
Nov. 9
To do: Modify my experimental plan.
Reflection: I have written a new version of the experimental plan, and I will discuss this plan with my supervisors tomorrow.
Plan: Communicate with my supervisors about my experimental plan.
Nov. 8
To do: Attend two academic lectures.
Reflection: I learned some tips about speech and some key points of academic writing from these lectures.
Plan: Modify my experimental plan.
Nov. 7
To do: Communicate with Professor You about my experimental plan.
Reflection: My experimental plan needs to modify, again. I will communicate with my supervisors next Tuesday.
Plan: Continue modifying my experimental plan.
Nov. 6
To do: Modify my experimental plan.
Reflection: I found some papers about Phragmites australis and Typha orientalis, and I will use them as my new experimental plants.
Plan: Continue modifying my experimental plan.
Nov. 5
To do: Learn how to run the program for meta-analysis.
Reflection: I learned some basic operations of R programming from a video. Besides, I received a reply from my supervisor, and it said that I was required to change the plant for the experiment. Next, I will search for some literature to modifymy experimental plan.
Plan: Modify my experimental plan.
Nov. 4
To do: Finish the experimental plan.
Reflection: I finished the experimental plan and sent it to my supervisor. I wait for her reply. After finishing the plan, I started to learn how to use R programming for meta-analysis.
Plan: Learn how to run the program for meta-analysis.
Nov. 3
To do: Write my experimental plan.
Reflection: I wrote some experimental methods today, and I asked Jiang Huatao to check the extracted data for my meta-analysis.
Plan: Continue writing the experimental plan.
Nov. 2
To do: (1) Attend two academic lectures hold by College of Civil Engineering. (2) Write my experimental plan.
Reflection: (1)Through these two lectures, I learned some key points of academic writing, frontier research in civil engineering, and some experiences about scientific research. (2) I am still writing the experimental design.
Plan: Continue writing the experimental plan.
Nov. 1
To do: Write my experimental plan.
Reflection:I have finished the experimental objective, and began to write the experimental design.
Plan: Continue writing my experimental plan.
Oct. 30
To do: Write my experimental plan.
Reflection: I have finished the background part, and I asked Yu Hui to check the extracted data for my meta-analysis. Next I will carefully consider the experimental objective.
Plan: Continue to write the experimental plan.
Oct. 29
To do: Learn how to run the program for meta-analysis.
Reflection: I received a message from my supervisor this morning, and it said that the experimental plan needs to be completed quickly. After communicating with my supervisor, I was required to write a very detailed experimental plan. So, I changed my plan for today and read senior schoolmates’ thesis to learn adetailed experimental plan.
Plan: Write my experimental plan.
Oct. 28
To do: Search literature to complete my experiment plan and schedule.
Reflection: I read a few papers about the constructed wetland. However, in these two days, Ididn’t get much useful information about my experiments. Maybe there is something wrong with this approach. I think I should take a pause and think about what is the purpose of my experiment. Maybe it would be a good idea to do something else next.
Plan: (1) Examine the extracted data. (2) Learn how to run the program for meta-analysis.
Oct. 27
To do: Search literaturea bout my experiments.
Reflection: I read three papers listed in the file that my supervisor sent to me. I have some basic understanding of the constructed wetland and Pittosporum tobira. Iwill look up more literature to determine the detail of my experiments.
Plan: Continue searching for literature about my experiments.
Oct. 26
To do: (1) Comment on a new manuscript. (2) Search literature to complete myexperiment plan and schedule.
Reflection: (1) After refer to my supervisor’s previous comments, this task was completed. (2)This task is in progress. Today, I received a reply about the steps of mymeta-analysis from my supervisor. I will learn how to use R for meta-analysis.
Plan: Search literature to complete my experimental plan and schedule.
Oct. 25
To do: Finish writing the steps of my meta-analysis.
Reflection: I have finished a brief version, and still have many questions. I will send the file to my supervisor and wait for her reply.
Plan: (1) Comment on a new manuscript. (2) Look up literature to complete my experimental plan and schedule.
Oct. 23
To do: (1) Finish reading my supervisor’s meta-analysis paper again. (2) Write the stepsof my meta-analysis.
Reflection: (1) This time I read materials and methods, results, and supporting information carefully. I try to find what should I do for my meta-analysis. However, afterreading, I still have some confusion. (2) I found some useful information in my supervisor’s learning journal which is helpful for me to write steps of mymeta-analysis. I have already started writing it, but have not finished.
Plan: Finish writing the steps.
Oct. 22
To do: (1) Plant rice for experiment with Yu Hui. (2) Write the steps of my meta-analysis.
Reflection: (1) I learned how to plant rice in experimental columns. (2) I still have someproblems that how to write the steps. So, I decided to read the learning journal from my supervisor. After reading, I found it more complicated than I thought. I will read my supervisor's meta-analysis paper carefully again, andtry to find out the steps of meta-analysis. I haven’t finished reading the paper again yet.
Plan: Finish reading the paper again, and write the steps for meta-analysis.
Oct. 21
To do: (1) Communicate with my supervisor to modify my research subject. (2) Write atutorial about problems I met in data extraction.
Reflection: (1) After communication, a new chapter with some experiments were added. I wasrequired to look up some literature to complete my experiment plan and schedule.After data extraction, the next task is torun the test procedure for meta-analysis. However, I don’t know how to run the procedure. My supervisor’s advice is that write the steps of mate-analysisfirstly, and then she will give the feedback. (2) The tutorial requires clearsteps. After modification, I submitted a new vision to my supervisor.
Plan: Write the steps of my mate-analysis, and continue to communicate with my supervisor.
Oct. 20
To do: Finish the data extraction.
Reflection: Today the data of the last three papers have been extracted. In the process of data extraction, I met some problems and my supervisor. After getting thesolution, I was required to write a tutorial about how to solve these problems.
Plan: (1) Write a tutorial about these problems I have met. (2) Comment on a new manuscript.
Oct. 19
To do: Comment on a new manuscript about meta-analysis.
Reflection: Because I still don't know enough about meta-analysis, I find some difficult to write the comment. After carefully re-reading the teacher's comments on the previous meta-analysis,finally, I wrote four comments. After the teacher’s comments are finished, Iwill carefully study again. This goal was completed.
Plan: Continue to extract data for meta-analysis.
Oct. 16
To do: (1) Finish the data extraction. (2) Fill in the information of ‘soil pretreatment’ for previously extracted data. (3) Improve the measurement method of AMF hyphaelength.
Reflection: (1) After examination, three previously missing papers need to be extracted.(2) This goal was completed. (3) The experiment operation method should be detailed and operable. Besides, the equipment for experiments also should belisted in detail, such as the volume of glass beakers.
Plan: (1) Commenton a new manuscript about meta-analysis. (2) Continue to extract data formeta-analysis.
Oct. 15
To do: Complete the extraction of data from two papers for meta-analysis.
Reflection: All the goals were completed. Now there is only one paper left for data extraction.
Plan: (1) Finish the data extraction. (2) Comment on a new manuscript aboutmeta-analysis.
Oct. 14
To do: Complete the extraction of data that was left yesterday, and extract data formeta-analysis from the other two papers.
Reflection: All the goals were completed.
Plan: Continue to extract data for meta-analysis.
Oct. 13
To do: Complete the extraction of data from three papers for meta-analysis.
Reflection: The data of the first two papers have been extracted, but the third paper wasnot finished. The reason is that there are some other things to do today, suchas complete health insurance information.
Plan: Continue to extract data for meta-analysis.
Oct. 12
To do: (1) Determine the content of TN, DN, NH4+-N, NO3--N,and NO2--N; (2) Collect soil from the bioretention columns.
Reflection: Today’s experiment went very well due to cooperate with the senior, and I learned how to collect soil. All the goals were completed.
Plan: Continue to extract data for meta-analysis.
