Counting Research Hours

[ckd816]

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I was wondering how you guys would go about logging research hours for independent projects. I'm just about to start my own study so I know there's a lot of time spent on background reading and preparation and then later on there's a lot of time spent writing up the paper on the study... Would you try to quantify these hours or solely count hours doing lab work/conducting the experiment?

 

[luplodw]

I would count all of the hours spent working on it as a whole. You can always specify how many hours were spent doing each thing in the description section!

 

[Hoxydude]

Agreed. If you are doing this as school-related work, ask your advisor/mentor what to do.They will know better than us.
If you are doing it by yourself, then just specify how many hours are spent doing what.
Good luck!!!

 

[GellaBella]

Doing background readings and writing are certainly important aspects of scientific research and you should count them.

 

[ckd816]

Cool, thanks guys. It just seemed weird to count this stuff all in vet experience so I was doubting myself for a second! 😳