I feel so tired today... I may take the day off if I don't stop feeling this way.

Anyhow.. back to today's intended task - preparing a final draft of Ch.2.

Sun 15 -DONE.
Mon 16 – Read through Ch. 3 -7 to get picture of whole thesis
Tue 17- DONE.
Wed 18 – DONE
Thur 19 – DONE
Fri 20 – DONE
Sat 21 – Polish final draft of ch.2 incorporate previous ch.2 and finish references.
Sun 22 – Address remaining supervisors corrections
Mon 23 –Address remaining supervisors corrections
Tue 24- Address remaining supervisors corrections (including V.)
Wed 25 – Finish methodology referencing.
Thur 26- Proofread & tighten definitions in Ch.1 & 2
Fri 27- Proofread & finish referencing in Ch.3 &4
Sat 28 - Proofread & finish referencing in Ch.5&6
Sun 29- Proofread ch. 7 alongside ch.1 & read through preliminary pages & format.
Mon 30- DONE.
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I will streamline chapter 2 tomorrow and make sure it flows with the new literature reviews in place and complete references as planned.

Extremely knackered! am happy to report that i've been able to do finish lit rev on W and therefore all the literature reviews Y, Z and W and incorporated them in my work. that should put me back in the game - timewise.

am so happy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! an early finish today, so fb, TV, phone and friends allowed!

Extremely knackered! am happy to report that i've been able to do all the literature reviews Y, Z and W and incorporated them in my work. that should put me back in the game - timewise.

am so happy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! an early finish today, so fb, TV, phone and friends allowed!

My uni only says referencing should be consistent. there are no rules on style. so any - even my own - as long as its consistent will do.

thanks guys. am very tempted to use ibid but am afraid of frustration if i move anything around. So if I do, this will only be after am sure nothing is moving.

Corinne - I thought of such a page but removed it after thinking it would increase my word count. I'm considering having it but only using one name of the author and year and no initials. (I will think further on how I can make this work for me.)

Sneaks - that is VERY reassuring! endnote is not an option for me and i would also never recommend it to anyone after my experience! but i do appreciate it is quite useful when it works as it should.

Hi all who have submitted and passed,

How perfect was your referencing?

After a bad experience with endnote which shuffled my referencings setting me back a few months as I had to look them all up, I decided to do my referencing manually.

This has worked well thus far except that I wish my references were shorter. I did not want to use ibids and supras because they will only complicate my referencing. So i have resorted to citing the name of paper in full the first time and in short ie. author,yr and pg the second time. Because of word count am considering using ibid where references below are similar but not supra at all. So if i cite a, i can have 4 ibids, then b, then a again and a few ibids. (Sorry if i have lost you already!)

in short, my style has no name. i obviously wish it was better but..

how many examiners seriously get hung up on style?

Literature review for Z is complete. Not very happy with it, because its too wordy, but I can cut down the words later. Taking an hour's break to have lunch then i'll come back to it and review W.

happy so far. tho am feeling the effect of excess adrenaline and stress - my neck is starting to pain a little.

hopefully a break and a bit of stretching will help. sigh..

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Patches - you're very dump! how is that helping? I can see why Slizor directed you to phdcomics!

wow MJM. so nice to know am not alone! my supervisor is also out of the country and so email is not even an option! i just have to sort everything myself.

i totally understand how you feel. i was so overwhelmed yesterday after having a false start in a noisy library, getting upset and not being able to work all day. i have decided to work from home for the next 10 days (luckily my housemate is away so no distractions whatsoever!) to avoid all distractions and just focus on doing the work rather than thinking of the outcome. am also banned from FB til 8pm in the evenings til next month and am only allowed this site and google scholar and motivational pages on youtube in the day. TV is also banned. and friends too. and non-emergency calls. desperate times require desperate measures.

today i managed to start and finish my literature review on Y. it only took me an hour of self belief and use of already acquired skills to finish it. you can do it. believe it or not!

i intend to work on Z and W in the next two hours and incorporate it in my work in the afternoon.

i have never been so panicked about this process, but

i cannot even allow myself to acknowledge that because it will just cripple me and i won't be able to write anything.

one step at a time. hopefully if i can finish these lit reviews i will be on track timetable-wise. yes its much and there is so much that could be better, but, it has to end at a point and i can improve it in a book. so far it looks good and that's enough.

that's where am at.


i will report back later. all the best in your work MJM. going for short walk to refresh.

J.

check in.. i'd be quite happy if i got in 2 more hours of work.

whats left on the list:
Sun 15 -DONE.
Mon 16 – Read through Ch. 3 -7 to get picture of whole thesis
Tue 17- DONE.
Wed 18 – Do and inc lit review on Y cf. chapters 3,4,5
Thur 19 – Do and inc lit review on Z cf. chapters 3,4,5
Fri 20 – Do and inc review on W cf. chapters 3,4,5
Sat 21 – Polish final draft of ch.2 incorporate previous ch.2 and finish references.
Sun 22 – Address remaining supervisors corrections
Mon 23 –Address remaining supervisors corrections
Tue 24- Address remaining supervisors corrections (including V.)
Wed 25 – Finish methodology referencing.
Thur 26- Proofread & tighten definitions in Ch.1 & 2
Fri 27- Proofread & finish referencing in Ch.3 &4
Sat 28 - Proofread & finish referencing in Ch.5&6
Sun 29- Proofread ch. 7 alongside ch.1 & read through preliminary pages & format.
Mon 30- DONE.

I will carry on with Y as planned.

Lesson: working from home does not work for me unless am at a crisis point. i will do everything but work. seeing other people working in the library helps me to focus more. however when i need to make a final copy of anything, i need absolute silence so home works best.

mine also knows nearly nothing about my field. the daily meetings can be distressing. my first set of supervisors used to want to see me every two weeks with written work and it got very stressful. i would suggest talking about a different work strategy or changing supervisors. even though your friend gets a new one, its only 1% of phd students who have supervisors who know the area they are researching in well. so tell her not to be too overreliant on them. i also used walmin's strategy.

all the best!

it shouldn't be a problem. just work on the rest. your final grade and your performance at the interview is what determines whether you get a postdoc. all the best!

Slizor - where does it say it's a primarily British forum? Just because you don't understand something does not mean that its not British.

Woo hoo! i have finished and incorporated culture lit rev of X!

Time for late lunch. Should go for a treat in a good restaraunt as a reward for finally getting on with it.

Back in two hours to do lit rev of Y.

Hi all..

this one is a shot in the dark.

Is anyone looking at models of culture. If so, has anyone been able to find Scwartz definition of culture. I have been looking for it for two hours now and am on the verge of concluding that he does not define culture. He only defines the dimensions in his cultural framework.