I have managed to edit that chapter today, so I have now edited every chapter! The whole thesis has been polished! Yay!
I can't believe it in a way, because when I saw the enormous mound of corrections that was my thesis I thought to myself, 'one day that will have all gone' and I couldn't really believe it there seemed to be so much work to do. But indeed, it is all now by the printer for recycling... (tho I might have to chuck it out as it would take us forever to re-use that mound and seeing it there day in, day out after submission might be a tad stressful!)
Soooo now. Onto phase three of writing up - editing the edited work :) As I have gone on I have become familiar with my writing tics and repetitions so will need to revisit one chapter in particular to check for these. I have to do my conclusion, which is written (am on draft five!) but needs to be edited having read the whole thesis in one go. I shall do this first thing tomorrow and just hope that it only takes me half a day. Then I need to add some reports into the thesis that Sup sent me today (grr) but that should only take a couple of hours. Finally I will do a quick squizz of the old chapter. Then, it should be a coherent thesis that, as far as I know for now, is ready for submission (am sure it isn't but will have a final, fresh-eyed read through after a couple of days off for chrimbo).
I then hope to have weds and thurs for the prelims, biblio and appendices while I wait for sup to come back to me with the concl.
Fingers crossed he doesn't send me any more reports!
x J
I can't believe it in a way, because when I saw the enormous mound of corrections that was my thesis I thought to myself, 'one day that will have all gone' and I couldn't really believe it there seemed to be so much work to do. But indeed, it is all now by the printer for recycling... (tho I might have to chuck it out as it would take us forever to re-use that mound and seeing it there day in, day out after submission might be a tad stressful!)
Soooo now. Onto phase three of writing up - editing the edited work :) As I have gone on I have become familiar with my writing tics and repetitions so will need to revisit one chapter in particular to check for these. I have to do my conclusion, which is written (am on draft five!) but needs to be edited having read the whole thesis in one go. I shall do this first thing tomorrow and just hope that it only takes me half a day. Then I need to add some reports into the thesis that Sup sent me today (grr) but that should only take a couple of hours. Finally I will do a quick squizz of the old chapter. Then, it should be a coherent thesis that, as far as I know for now, is ready for submission (am sure it isn't but will have a final, fresh-eyed read through after a couple of days off for chrimbo).
I then hope to have weds and thurs for the prelims, biblio and appendices while I wait for sup to come back to me with the concl.
Fingers crossed he doesn't send me any more reports!
x J
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