I have gone through and coded and properly referenced all my interviews and did a quick check of the bibliography, added a couple of missing full stops and checked overall that there aren't any glaring errors.
Some of the writing is still a bit dodgy and the ideas are completely basic and crap! I hate it! I think this is normal though... I feel like I should have a LOT more quotes from my research in there but I guess that I only have so many words to fit into a chapter and I have done that so must have some info from somwhere. I can only imagine the viva peeps reading through it and being so angry with me for daring to hand it in and eviscerating me at the interview. I am sure it is FULL of holes and I have missed a whole swathe of relevant literature... I can certainly see how a woman, a year or so after getting her doctorate, said she was embarrassed about some of the stuff she had written in her PhD. I imagine it must be the same as when I think of my MA stuff. SOOOOO simplistic and badly referenced etc, yet I did rather well at the time. But did I ought to think that it is rubbish already or is that a sign I am just handing in something I know is below par?!
BUT, and this is an important but, I don't know it is below par. I don't know what is expected of me. I think it falls in the middle somewhere; I am sure people have handed in both better and worse. And that isn't a bad place to be, really. Am just worried I guess, seeing as only me and my sup have ever read the bloody thing :)
Anyway, am off to overthink over some cheese and biscuits and then realise there is little I can do now and who cares anyway - it's christmas!
Am now off until Thursday when I am back for three final days of proof-reading.
I submit a week tomorrow!
Lovely!
x J
Some of the writing is still a bit dodgy and the ideas are completely basic and crap! I hate it! I think this is normal though... I feel like I should have a LOT more quotes from my research in there but I guess that I only have so many words to fit into a chapter and I have done that so must have some info from somwhere. I can only imagine the viva peeps reading through it and being so angry with me for daring to hand it in and eviscerating me at the interview. I am sure it is FULL of holes and I have missed a whole swathe of relevant literature... I can certainly see how a woman, a year or so after getting her doctorate, said she was embarrassed about some of the stuff she had written in her PhD. I imagine it must be the same as when I think of my MA stuff. SOOOOO simplistic and badly referenced etc, yet I did rather well at the time. But did I ought to think that it is rubbish already or is that a sign I am just handing in something I know is below par?!
BUT, and this is an important but, I don't know it is below par. I don't know what is expected of me. I think it falls in the middle somewhere; I am sure people have handed in both better and worse. And that isn't a bad place to be, really. Am just worried I guess, seeing as only me and my sup have ever read the bloody thing :)
Anyway, am off to overthink over some cheese and biscuits and then realise there is little I can do now and who cares anyway - it's christmas!
Am now off until Thursday when I am back for three final days of proof-reading.
I submit a week tomorrow!
Lovely!
x J
2 comments:
Absolutely fantastic! Enjoy Christmas - you deserve it!! :) Have a lovely time!
thanks! I hope you had a lovely chrimbob!
x J
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