*** Note: This blog post may be of interest mainly to PG students in the writing-up stages ***
Start of the day
Day 4. That means I should be working on the massive 40,000-word long chapter 4. I will. But first, I must write the summary of chapter 3, the conclusion section.
End of the day
I realised I made a mistake in thinking that chapter 4 was the big analysis chapter. It isn't. Chapter 4 is the methodology chapter. It's quite well-written because it was recently completely rewritten, so there's little editing to do. But I have had to spend a long time fixing the format of tables and figures. I've decided to have any large figures or tables on a horizontal page and on one page only, not running on for several pages because it looks awful. But this means I'm having to cut down words and use 10pt font and single-spacing to achieve this. I hope the examiners don't mind. I haven't finished writing the summary of this chapter but it shouldn't take me long once the format is fixed. I'd love to have time to work on chapter 5, the analysis over the weekend but I'm afraid this won't be possible because I've got several translations and social commitments. Oh well... I'll do it on Monday.
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Today I had an idea. Wouldn't it be nice to have a little piece of software where a PG student and the supervisors could track the changes suggested and made to the thesis? It wouldn't be an app because it has to be used on a big screen and typing a lot of text. But it could work for PC and Mac. Just an idea...
Review: Day 4
*** Note: This blog post may be of interest mainly to PG students in the writing-up stages ***
Start of the day
Day 4. That means I should be working on the massive 40,000-word long chapter 4. I will. But first, I must write the summary of chapter 3, the conclusion section.
End of the day
I realised I made a mistake in thinking that chapter 4 was the big analysis chapter. It isn't. Chapter 4 is the methodology chapter. It's quite well-written because it was recently completely rewritten, so there's little editing to do. But I have had to spend a long time fixing the format of tables and figures. I've decided to have any large figures or tables on a horizontal page and on one page only, not running on for several pages because it looks awful. But this means I'm having to cut down words and use 10pt font and single-spacing to achieve this. I hope the examiners don't mind. I haven't finished writing the summary of this chapter but it shouldn't take me long once the format is fixed. I'd love to have time to work on chapter 5, the analysis over the weekend but I'm afraid this won't be possible because I've got several translations and social commitments. Oh well... I'll do it on Monday.
Comments
Today I had an idea. Wouldn't it be nice to have a little piece of software where a PG student and the supervisors could track the changes suggested and made to the thesis? It wouldn't be an app because it has to be used on a big screen and typing a lot of text. But it could work for PC and Mac. Just an idea...